Object description

The History Museum of Armenia is a museum in Armenia with departments of Archaeology, Numismatics, Ethnography, Modern History and Restoration. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects. Archaeology makes up 35% of the main collection, Ethnography 8%, Numismatics 45%, and Documents 12%. It is regarded as Armenia's national museum and is located on Republic Square in Yerevan. The state financially supports the museum and owns both the collection and the building. It carries out conservation and restoration work and publishes works on Armenian architecture, archaeology, ethnography, history, and a series of reports on archaeological excavations since 1948. The museum also carries out educational and scientific programs on Armenian history and culture.