Visitors

Working hours of the museum

Monday – Saturday 11:00 – 17:30

The Museum is closed on Sundays, National holidays and Commemoration days.

Yerevan History Museum offers the following Services: Museum entrance tickets

Schoolchildren – 500 drams, students – 1000 drams, Adults, foreign visitors – 1500 drams.

Excursions

Yerevan History Museum holds excursions, game excursions, lesson excursions. Play excursions and lesson excursions differ from classical excursions by the facilitated methods of introducing the material for the preschool and schoolchildren.

Armenian – 2000 drams. Russian, English, French, German – 5000 drams. Play excursions – 3000 drams. Facilities for disabled people include sloping floors, an elevator.

Excursions are held in the following languages:

The museum collaborates with kindergartens, schools, orphanages, Institutes, Universities, Research institutes, museums, factories, TV companies, foreign organizations and several individuals.

Contact phone number: (37410) 56-81-08

Historical Overview

The museum of Yerevan history was founded in 1931. Being attached to the communal division of Yerevan City Council it was called Communal Museum and in 1936 it was renamed Yerevan History Museum.
At first the museum was located in one of the rooms on the second floor of the Yerevan Fire Department. In 1936 it was moved to the Blue Mosque (Gyoy Djami) where it functioned for about 56 years.
In 1994-1997 it was located in the building of former Hripsimeh Female Gymnasium. In 1997-2005-in the building adjacent to the secondary school n 1 after Shahumyan. In 2005 it was established in the newly built building of the Municipality of Yerevan making a unified architectural ensemble.