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- Museum of the History of Armenia
The History Museum of Armenia was founded on September 9, 1919 as an ethnographic - anthropological museum-library. The museum received its first visitors on August 20, 1921. After the opening, the museum was renamed several times: in 1922 the museum was renamed the State Central Museum of Armenia, in 1931 the Cultural and Historical Museum, in 1935 the Museum of History, in 1962 the State Museum of the History of Armenia and in 2003 the Museum history of Armenia. Today the museum presents an integral picture of the history and culture of Armenia from prehistoric times (one million years ago) to the present day. The collection contains rare traces of cultural relationships with the ancient eastern countries of the Armenian Highlands: Egypt, the Hittite kingdom, Asiria, Iran, the state of the Seleucids, with Rome and Byzantium. The museum owns a huge and unique collection of bronze items dating from the second millennium BC. Many exhibits are recognized as world masterpieces. The museum has a magnificent historical and cultural heritage of Urartu, a powerful Armenian state in the Ancient East. These are exceptional cuneiform inscriptions, bronze figurines, wall paintings, painted ceramics, weapons, unique samples of gold, silver and bone brought from the excavations of Karmir Blur, Arin-Berd and Argishtihinili. The museum exhibits a unique cuneiform record of 782 BC on the foundation of the city of Erebuni (Yerevan), by order of the Urartian king Argishti I. The museum presents a collection of the most ancient evidence of the history of transport. These are wooden carts and chariots and their miniature models in bronze, 14-15 centuries BC, brought from the excavations in Lchashen. The exposition of numismatics is represented by a rich collection of Armenian coins dating from the third century BC, coins of the Armenian Artakhiad dynasty, coins of the kingdom of Kiurike (11th century) and the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia (1080-1375). Here are collections of Miletus, Greco-Macedonian, Parthian, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Seljuk and other gold, silver and copper coins circulating in Armenia. The museum owns a rich library (about 50,000 volumes), many of which are unique editions: among them is the first printed book, Urbatagirk (The Friday Book), published in 1512 in Venice. The repository of the Museum of History of Armenia currently contains more than half a million archaeological, ethnographic, documentary exhibits. The museum building, shared with the Art Gallery of Armenia, is located on Republic Square. The National History Museum occupies the lower two floors of the complex.
