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Հայաստանի պատմության թանգարան | |
.jpg) The History Museum and the National Gallery share a building | |
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| Established | 1920 |
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| Location | Yerevan,Armenia |
| Type | National museum |
| Collection size | Archaeological, numismatic, ethnographic |
| Visitors | 106,900(2019)[1] |
| Director | Davit Poghosyan |
| Website | historymuseum.am |
TheHistory Museum of Armenia (Armenian:Հայաստանի պատմության թանգարան,romanized: Hayastani patmut'yan t'angaran) is a museum inArmenia with departments ofArchaeology,Numismatics,Ethnography, Modern History and Restoration. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects and was founded in 1920. Of the main collection, 35% is made up of archaeology-related items, 8% is made up of ethnography-related items, 45% is made of numismatics-related items, and 12% is made up of documents.[2] It is regarded as Armenia's national museum and is located onRepublic Square inYerevan. The state financially supports the museum and owns both the collection and the building. The museum carries out conservation and restoration work and publishes works onArmenian architecture, archaeology, ethnography, andhistory. They also have published a series of reports onarchaeological excavations since 1948. The museum carries out educational and scientific programs on Armenian history and culture as well.
On 9 September 1919, theNational Assembly of Armenia founded the History Museum of Armenia. The museum opened to visitors on 20 August 1921.[3] Its first director wasYervand Lalayan.Originally named the Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library, it has been renamed several times, first to the State Central Museum of Armenia (1926), then to the Historical Museum (1935), the State History Museum of Armenia (1962), the Cultural-Historical Museum (2000), and finally to the History Museum of Armenia (since 2003). The museum was formed using the collections of the Armenian Ethnographical Association of the Caucasus, theNor Nakhijevan Museum of Armenian Antiquities, the Museum of Antiquities ofAni, and theVagharshapat Repository of Ancient Manuscripts. The original collection numbered 15,289 objects.
In 1935, the Central Committee of theCommunist Party of Armenia, established separate museums. These museums received items that originally were part of the History Museum of Armenia:
The museum continually replenishes its collections with finds from current excavations made at ancient Armenian sites by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography and theNational Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Other objects are obtained through purchases and donations. The museum represents an integral picture of the history and culture of Armenia, fromprehistory to the present day. The museum also presents rare traces of cultural interrelations between ancient eastern societies in theArmenian Highlands. These ancient societies includeCaucasus,Crete,Egypt,Mitanni, theHittite Kingdom,Assyria,Iran, theSeleucid Empire, theRoman Empire, and theByzantine Empire.
Among its directors wereYervand Lalayan (1919–1927) andKaro Ghafadaryan (1940–1964).
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The History Museum of Armenia has held exhibitions in Bochum in 1995, at theBibliothèque nationale de France in Paris in 1996, in Musee Dobree Nantes in 1996, in Lyon in 1997, in Cairo in 1997, at theZappeion Megaron of Athens in 1998, in Bonn, in Halle-Wittenberg in 1998, in Peking in 1998, at theVatican Library in 1999, in Paris in 2000, at theBritish Library in London in 2001, in Rijksmuseum, in Leiden, in the Netherlands in 2001–2002, and in Budapest in 2002.
The museum has participated in various international exhibitions including ones inBudapest in 1968, inParis in 1970, inLeningrad in 1974, inSpokane in 1975, inLos Angeles in 1977, inTartu in 1979, inKyiv in 1980, inTsukuba in 1984, inVenice in 1987, at thePavillon des Arts in Paris in 1999, at theLouvre in Paris in 2007, in New York from 2008 to 2009, in Thessaloniki in 2009, at theHermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in 2009, at thePrinceton University Art Museum in 2010, and at theMetropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 2014 to 2015.
For the first time, the History Museum of Armenia will exhibit the bronze head belonging to the statue of goddess Anahit from theBritish Museum collection. The exhibition will take place in September 2024.[4]
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