National Gallery of Armenia

National Gallery of Armenia is situated in the center of Yerevan in the Republic Square. It has been located there since its foundation, in 1921. However, the first two-floor structure built in black tufa has been resurfaced with white stone and, in 1978, a new eight-floor section was opened. In its relatively short period of existence the Gallery has created a rich collection of Armenian, Russian, and West European works (over twenty thousand objects). Donatello, Tintoretto, Fragonard, Courbet, Rousseau, Serov, Kandinsky, Chagall, Aivazosky (Aivazian), Sarian, Yakulov, Carzou are some of the artists who have made the Gallery famous.

Armenia is often called an open museum under the blue sky. On its present territory and on its historical lands, and outside the Republic, there are vast numbers of monuments. This fact bears evidence of the Armenian people’s creative spirit, belonging to a nation which under adverse political conditions throughout the last centuries was constrained to pursue its creativity outside the borders of its homeland.