212 Emblematic Works from Louvre to Armenian History Museum

“Saint Armenia” Exhibition kicked off in Louvre from Frebruary 19 till May 29 will be presented in the History Museum of Armenia from August to October within the frameworks of the Year of Armenia in France. Vice Minister of Culture Gagik Gyurjyan informed about that Panorama.am correspondent . As he informed all the 212 works are already here in Armenia(31 cross-stones among them).G.Gyurjyan mentioned that due to the agreement signed with the Louvre management the exhibition will be presented here as it was done there. Regarding the vice-president’s words the exhibition had great achievements and millions of visitors in France.

The exhibition presented exceptional loans from the Museum and Treasury of the Etsmiadzin Holy See, Matenadaran and from the National History Museum. The exhibition first revealed the Adoption of Christianity and the creation of the Armenian Alphabet in the 4th and the 5th centuries ,then the first “Golden Age” and the “Church Independence” in the 6th and 7th centuries, Islamic and Byzantine revivals in the 8th and 13th centuries and the 13th and 15th centuries “Mets Hayk” and the Persian and Ottoman revivals in the 13th and 15th centuries.

Vice-president G.Gyurjan also said that after the exhibition held in the History Museum of Armenia all the works will be returned to the museums , the cross-stones will be brought to the different regions of the Republic taken with signboards to have been presented in the Year of Armenia in France exhibition.