Sergei Parajanov Museum

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The Sergei Parajanov Museum is dedicated to the Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov, director of "The Color of Pomegranates" and "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors." The Armenian government established the museum in 1988 at the Dzoragyugh Ethnographic Center, building two structures, one for exhibitions and one modeled on Parajanov's residence. It holds more than 600 artworks, with about 250 on permanent display alongside documents and photographs. The collection reflects Parajanov's wide-ranging creative output beyond film, including assemblages, collages, drawings, dolls, and film sketches, much of it made during his five years in Soviet prison and the roughly fifteen years he was barred from professional filmmaking afterward. The museum also preserves correspondence between Parajanov and figures including Andrei Tarkovsky, Mikhail Vartanov, Federico Fellini, Yuri Nikulin, and Lilya Brik, as well as furnishings from his Tbilisi home, documented by filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov before their transfer to Armenia. His work blends Armenian, Eastern, and European artistic traditions through unconventional materials and three-dimensional composition.

What you can do: View around 250 of Parajanov's collages, assemblages, drawings, and dolls, many created during his years of imprisonment and professional exile. See personal correspondence with figures such as Fellini and Tarkovsky. View furnishings from his Tbilisi home. Watch a film screening on-site (minimum group of 5). Take a guided or audio tour in one of ten languages.