National Gallery of Armenia

About

The National Gallery of Armenia was established in 1921 by decree of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Its first works came from an exhibition of Armenian painters that same year, followed by the transfer of the Armenian Cultural Center's collection, originally held by the Lazarian Seminary in Moscow, along with donations from Armenian artists. By 1925 it displayed 400 works by Armenian, Russian, and European artists across six halls. Today it holds approximately 42,000 artworks across 56 exhibition halls, along with an archive of roughly 200,000 items including photographs, letters, and documents. The collection spans Armenian medieval church frescoes, European Old Masters from Italy, Flanders, the Netherlands, and France, Russian painting, and decorative arts. It holds more than 62 canvases by Ivan Aivazovsky, the Russian painter of Armenian descent, as well as works by Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, and Arshile Gorky.
What you can do: View more than 62 seascapes and paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky. See works by Chagall, Kandinsky, and Gorky alongside European Old Masters. Walk through 56 halls covering Armenian medieval frescoes, Russian painting, and decorative arts.