MORE THAN 200 UNIQUE EXHIBITS PRESENTED IN LOUVRE TO BE SHOWN IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Jul 19 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. More than 200 unique exhibits provided
by the treasury of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the Armenian
History Museum, and M. Mashtots Matenadaran, as well as more than
twenty khachkars (cross-stones), after the exhibition under the title
"Saint Armenia" held in Louvre, will be also shown in Armenia from
August 25 to October 25. As Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by
Gagik Gyurjian, the RA Deputy Minister of Culture, they have made an
arrangement with the management of the Louvre Museum to organize the
Yerevan exhibition with the same exhibits’ subject departments. The
Deputy Minister said that they are also undertaking measures to
bring the two Gospels kept on St. Lazar island and shown in Louvre,
to Armenia and to present them to the Armenian public.