MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

"Erebuni" Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve

The Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Reserve-Museum was founded in 1968 on the occasion of the 2750th anniversary of the founding of Yerevan. It is an important Urartian research center of the region.

The Erebuni Historical and Archaeological Reserve-Museum was founded on October 19, 1968, to mark the 2750th anniversary of the city of Yerevan.

The reserve-museum was created on the basis of 3 famous archaeological sites located within the administrative boundaries of Yerevan: Arin Berd, Karmir Blur and Shengavit, and the material cultural values and finds discovered at these sites. The reserve-museum has 2 branches: the Shengavit early agricultural settlement on the shores of Lake Yerevan and the city of Erebuni, built by Rusa II in the southwestern suburbs of Yerevan, on the banks of the Hrazdan River, in the 7th century BC. The fortress city of Teyshebaini (Karmir Blur) was built in the mid-19th century. With its branches, it occupies an area of about 80 hectares.

The authors of the project of the Erebuni Museum building are architects Shmavon Azatyan and Baghdasar Arzumanyan, and the sculptor Ara Harutyunyan. It is the only archaeological reserve-museum in Yerevan and an important Urartian research center in the region.

VISITOR INFORMATION

The collection of the Erebuni Museum consists of more than 20,000 archaeological objects from the pre-Urartian, Urartian, Achaemenid, Hellenistic and early Armenian periods, discovered from the ancient sites of Arin Berd, Karmir Blur, Shengavit, as well as from random or regular excavations in different regions of Armenia, grouped into 160 collections.

The permanent exhibition of the museum presents the history of Urartu, its developed economy, architecture and fine arts, irrigation and fortification systems, construction techniques, wall painting, pottery and other material evidence testifying to the progress of the state in other areas.

HOURS AND ADMISSION

Tuesday to Sunday: 10:30-17:00

ADMISSION

Adults - 1500 AMD

Schoolchildren - 500 AMD

EXCURSION

Museum