Yerevan History Museum

 


Yerevan History Museum is located in the center of the city, in a building that forms a common architectural complex with the Yerevan Municipality. The museum was founded in 1931. The architect of the building was Jim Torosyan.



The museum offers its visitors three exhibition halls, each floor represented by a corresponding period of the city's history.  Visitors are acquainted with the history of the capital from ancient times.






The archaeological collection is distinguished by the beer ceramic jugs found at Karmir Blur (Red Hill), with the rich collection dug at the settlement of Karmir Berd (Red fortress) dated as far back as the 1-2 century BC: bronze belts, ceramics, stone idols, arrow-heads, knives, jewelry, as well as items representing the Hellenic culture of the city dug in Avan Arinj.






The fine arts fund includes works by prominent Armenian painters M. Saryan, P. Terlemezyan, S. Arakelyan, and G. Gyurjyan. 


Yerevan city tour
The main goal of the program is to familiarize tourists, guests of the capital, and townspeople with the historical and cultural monuments and sights of the city of Yerevan. The touristic program of Yerevan started on September 17,2011, within the frames of the celebrations dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s Independence.
Within the frames of the 2800th anniversary of Yerevan, in 2018, Yerevan City Tour performed under the slogan “Let’s Celebrate Together”. 
In 2019 the project got a new slogan “Discover Yerevan”.
During the two-hour tour of “Yerevan City Tour” program the multi-lingual system gives the opportunity to get interesting information on the history of Yerevan, its culture, architecture and other cultural values.
In 2017 the touristic route “Yerevan City Tour” was recognized “Best Touristic Project of the Year”.



Links for more information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan_History_Museum
https://yhm.am/?lang=en
https://visityerevan.am/tours/details/8/en/




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