History Museum of Armenia
National collection on Republic Square covering Armenia from the Stone Age to the twentieth century.
The museum was founded in 1919 as the Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library and opened to visitors in 1921; it took its present name in 2003. It occupies the north side of Republic Square, in the tuff-faced block begun to Alexander Tamanian's square plan of the 1920s and completed by Mark Grigoryan in 1977, which it shares with the National Gallery of Armenia. The building's arcaded lower storeys and carved ornament belong to the national style Tamanian developed for the centre of Yerevan.
The collection numbers more than 400,000 items covering archaeology, ethnography, numismatics and documents. The permanent route is chronological, running from the Stone Age and Bronze Age through the Iron Age and the kingdom of Urartu to ancient and medieval Armenia. Among the best known objects are the wooden wheels and chariots from the Lchashen burials, bronze cauldrons and armour, Urartian cuneiform inscriptions and a large cabinet of coins struck in Armenia and neighbouring states.
Highlights
- Bronze Age wooden chariots and wheels from Lchashen
- Urartian inscriptions, bronzes and armour
- Chronological route from the Stone Age to medieval Armenia
- Tamanian's tuff-faced block on the north side of Republic Square
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