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Museum of Armenian History

The museum founded in 1919. It is located on the Republic Square in Yerevan. The History Museum of Armenia is entrusted with a national collection of c. 400,000 objects and has the following departments: Archeology, Ethnography, Numismatics, Documents. It also presents the rare traces of cultural interrelations with the ancient eastern countries in the Armenian Highland: Egypt, Mitanni, the Hittite kingdom, Assyria, Iran, the Seleucid state, Rome and the Byzantine Empire.

Visitor Information

Working hours
Tuesday to Saturday: 11.00-18.00 (no entrance after 17.15)
Sunday: 11.00-17.00 (no entrance after 16.15)

The Museum is closed on:
Mondays,
National Holidays and memorial Days

Tickets
Entrance fee - 1000 drams
For students, pensioners and pupils - 300 drams
Guided visit (in Russian, English, French and German) - 5000 drams
Guided visit in Armenian - 3000 drams

Entrance is free for:

museum workers, state official delegations, students of cultural heritage, representatives of international social organizations, members of Artists' Unions, servicemen, journalists (it is obligatory to present a document confirming the status)

last Saturday each month

second Friday each month for groups of pupils and teachers accompanying them

Museum shop
Books, postcards, posters, souvenirs, CDs (the shop closes at 17.50)

Address: Republic Sq.
URL: www.historymuseum.am