MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

STATE MUSEUM OF FOLK CREATIVITY (MUSEUM OF FOLK ART)

1941

State index: 1.6.77

Architect: Varazdat Arevshatyan

The address is 64th, Abovyan Street. The museum was built at the end of the Abovyan Street according to the project of Varazdat Arevshatyan, a distinguished builder and architect of the USSR. From 1945, the Institute of Fine Arts started to operate in the building, and from 1957 the House of Folk Works, that became a basement for the Museum of Folk Art of Armenia founded in 1978. It is named after Hovhannes Sharambeyan, Honored Artist of the ASSR, Honored Art Worker of the ASSR, former director of the museum (1978-1986).

The museum’s mission is the acquisition, conservation, restoration, study, and popularization of various genres of ethnic works of the Armenian people and samples of folk art. Creation of the museum collection began at the end of the 1930s, with the efforts of the group led by ethnographer-collector Habetnak Babayan. Martiros Saryan, Hakob Kojoyan, Gabriel Gyurjian and others also took part in the collective works. Examples of wood, stone, and metal arts, articles of ceramics, lace, embroidery, rugs and carpets, paintings by self-educated painters are being exhibited in the museum.

The building is a two-storey, built of smooth tuff and with a midis laying. The façades are decorated by a rhythmic system of pilasters crowned with ornamental capitals, merlon-lined cornice. The entrance is emphasized with a barrier(parapet). The museum has its branch in Dilijan, a city in north of Armenia.

“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO

Yerevan Municipality

WORKING HOURS

Monday - Sunday: 10:00-20:00

ENTRANCE FEE

Permanent exhibition: 1500 AMD

WOODWORK EXHIBITION

Permanent exhibition: 1000 AMD

EXCURSION

Armenian, English, Russian, French: 3000 AMD

Educational programs: 1500-5000 AMD

WOODWORK EXHIBITION