History Museum of Armenia

About

History Museum of Armenia was established by Armenia's National Assembly on September 9, 1919, under the name Ethnographic-Anthropological Museum-Library, and opened to the public on August 20, 1921, with Yervand Lalayan as its first director. Today the museum holds approximately 400,000 objects across four departments: archaeology, numismatics, ethnography, and documents. Notable holdings include bronze artifacts from the third and second millennia BC, Urartian objects bearing cuneiform inscriptions, and a cuneiform inscription dated to 782 BC that documents the founding of Erebuni, the fortress city that gave rise to modern Yerevan, by the Urartian king Argishti I. The museum also holds ancient coins from multiple civilizations and archaeological finds from Garni, Artashat, Dvin, and Ani.
What you can do: View Urartian artifacts and cuneiform inscriptions, including the 782 BC inscription documenting the founding of Erebuni. See bronze objects dating back to the third millennium BC. Browse the numismatic collection of ancient coins. See archaeological finds from Garni, Artashat, Dvin, and Ani spanning different eras of Armenian history.