Month: January 2014

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I am grateful to my fate to have the honour to work and communicate with an intelligent person like him

09/01/2014

I will always feel sorry to speak about Jim Torosyan in the past tense as…

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Jim Torosyan was the best friend of our museum

06/01/2014

Yesterday, on January 5, at Christmas Eve, the honorary architect of Armenia, the Arm SSR…

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.