Armenia Ethnography Museum

State Museum of Ethnography of Armenia
Location	Araks, Armavir Province, Armenia
Coordinates	40°8′8.5″N 44°0′55.4″E / 40.135694°N 44.015389°E / 40.135694; 44.015389
Type	Ethnographic museum

Officially, the Armenia Ethnography Museum and the National Liberation Movement, is a state-owned museum of Armenia located in the village of Araks, Armavir Province, within the Sardarapat Memorial complex, around 10 km southwest of the provincial centre Armavir.

Designed in the shape of a medieval Armenian castle by architect Rafael Israelyan, the museum was opened in 1978.^[1]

Description

The museum building without windows castle impression. South (rear) front by two octagonal towers, one Aragat other, Ararat after the two-window opening is planned. The interior design is clear, the walls are smooth tuff carved arches, lined with high symbolic.

Collections

Collection of Armenia Museum of Ethnography and the national liberation movement contains 70 thousand sets.^[2]

The materials of the Museum of the Highlands and culture of the inhabitants of the Stone Age to our days. It contains.

• Hunting and primitive working tools,
• ceramics, stone work, metallurgy unique designs,
• petroglyphs
• household and ritual vessels,
• weapons;
• Musical Instruments
• jewelry and other items from the period of early human society groups.

Here includes collections in a 3-1 millennial reached us in clay, stone and metal carriages, statues and “pashtpanmunkayin” subjects.

Gallery

See also

Sardarapat Memorial

References

Sources

• What is, Encyclopedia, Volume 3, page 25.

External links

• About Armenian Ethnography Museum Archived 2020-09-20 at the Wayback Machine