Armenia Tourism

The Republican Center of Aesthetical Education, which boasts the first children’s picture gallery in the world, is one of the places of interest in Yerevan. On March 13, 1970 a children’s art gallery opened in Yerevan. Apart from periodical shows, there is a permanent exposition which rates the gallery in the rank of museums. The [...]

Museum of Modern Art of Armenia was founded in 1972 by art critic Henry Igityan and has become the first specialized museum of modern art in the former Soviet Union. It still remains one of the most frequently visited places of Yerevan. The unusual building of the museum is the only one in Yerevan constructed [...]

A real connoisseur of Art cannot imagine Armenian painting without Martiros Saryan, an outstanding artist of modern times. His style was grounded in the world painting tradition and deeply rooted in Armenian national culture. He made widely used folk themes and motives and breathed new life into them by enriching them with new expressive devices, [...]

This is one of the leading art museums in the region. Its collections include outstanding examples of Armenian, Russian and European art. Altogether the museum numbers more than 20,000 works of painting, sculpture and graphic and applied art in its collections, with more than 3000 of which are constantly exhibited. The section on Armenian art [...]

The State Museum of Folk Art of Armenia is a unique center of culture where specimens of decorative and applied art are preserved and displayed. The museum with its two branches – Yerevan Exhibition of wood-carving and Dilijan Museum – carries on a considerable work in collecting, studying, and introducing Armenian folk art. The museum [...]