Near East Art Museum

Near East Art Museum

Միջին Արևելքի արվեստի թանգարան
Established	1993
Location	1 Aram Str., Yerevan, Armenia
Director	Zara Mokatsyan

Near East Art Museum is a museum of art located in Yerevan, Armenia. ^[1] The museum was opened in 1993 and is based on a collection donated by Marcos Grigorian, painter, collector and honorary citizen of Yerevan in memory of his daughter, actress Sabrina Grigorian. The museum shares the building with Yerevan Museum of Literature and Culture.

The museum houses about 2,600 exhibits, including works by Marcos Grigorian and examples of Russian, European and Middle Eastern applied arts - Iranian faucets of the 12th-19th centuries, doorknockers, keys, locks, nails, Iranian-Turkmen silver ornaments of the 18th-19th centuries, 3 or 4,000-year-old bronze items, etc. The exhibits are housed in three halls. ^{[2] [3]}

Notes

• Earth Works. Grigorian, 1988, New York.
• The Contemporary Armenian Carpet, Near East Museum, Yerevan, 1999.

References

1. "Near East Museum". www.tacentral.com. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
2. Near East Museum / Marcos Grigorian Collection
3. "History of armeniainfo.am". www.ivisa.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2019-10-23.

External links

• Marcos Grigorian's works at the center of "Middle East Art Museum" exhibition Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
• After reconstruction, the museum opened its doors to the renewed Middle East exhibition Archived 2020-10-23 at the Wayback Machine