MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
State index: 1.6.174
Building architect: Bagrat Arazyan
Museum founded: 1964
The house-museum of the great Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents (1897-1937) is located at 17 Mashtots Avenue (building architect: Bagrat Arazyan, 1935).
By the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR on February 8, 1964, his house-museum was founded in apartment No. 12 on the third floor of the building, where Charents lived and worked from 1935 to 1937. The grand opening took place on January 30, 1975. In February 1978, during the celebration of the poet's 80th birthday, the first floor of the same section of the building was allocated to the poetry hall. Subsequently, the second and basement floors were allocated to the museum.
In 1987, on the occasion of Charents’s 90th birthday, the building underwent partial modifications, and by the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR, the museum's area was expanded (architect: Karen Aleksanyan).
The museum halls display items related to Charents and his contemporaries, photocopies, paintings, items brought from foreign trips (1924-1925), artistic works related to the poet, and more. It has a memorial house restored to resemble Charents’s times, furnished with a combination of Eastern and European styles and housing the poet's personal library. The museum's collection exceeds 17,000 items. A sculpture of Yeghishe Charents is installed on the first floor (sculptor: Ara Shiraz).
In October 1997, the International Star Registry representative
presented the museum with a certificate stating that one of the stars in the
sky is named after Yeghishe Charents. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Armenia has handed over to the museum the message of UNESCO Director-General
Federico Mayor Zaragoza on the occasion of Charents’s 100th birthday.
The building is constructed with pink tuff. The entrance to the museum
is emphasized with a combination of black granite and basalt.
The Yeghishe Charents House-Museum is a scientific center for the study
and popularization of the poet’s life, literary-cultural, and socio-political
activities.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
- The first exhibition hall presents Yeghishe Charents's life and creative activity period from 1897 to 1927.
- The second exhibition hall includes the last period of Yeghishe Charents's life and creative activity: from 1927 to 1937.
- Memorial part: the house, where Charents lived with his family the last two years of his life.