Serzh Sargsyan attends opening of ‘When the Book finds the Artist’ exhibition

Today, at Hovhannes Toumanian Museum, President Serzh Sargsyan attended the opening of an exhibition titled ‘When the Book Finds the Artist’, which is concluding a series of events launched at the end of the last year and dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Armenian Printing.

The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the Armenian book reading and different stages of the artistic decoration of books, starting from the end of the 19th till the 1970s of the 20th century.

The President of Armenia toured the exhibition, familiarized himself with the exhibits presented in the framework of a joint project by five cultural establishments – Hovhannes Toumanian Museum, National Gallery of Armenia, Charents House-Museum, National Library of Armenia, and Charents Museum of Literature and Arts.

At the Museum of the great writer, Serzh Sargsyan also observed historical objects related to the life and works of Toumanian and familiarized himself with the recent activities aimed at their proper preservation and display, presidential press service reported.