CAFESJIAN FOUNDATION CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM CONSTRUCTION TO BE OVER IN 2010

ARMENPRESS
Oct 8, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 8, ARMENPRESS: Madlene Minassian, head of the
Cafesjian Museum Foundation press office, told Armenpress that
construction of the Gerard L.

Cafesjian Museum of Contemporary Art in central Yerevan will be over
in 2010.

She said some 100 workers and 4 engineers have finished earthwork
and are engaged currently in concreting, which is likely to take 18
months. She said workers use local materials except steel parts.

The museum will house Mr. Cafesjian’s pre-eminent collection of glass
artwork, including the definitive collection of works by renowned
artists Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova. The permanent
displays will also include a broad range of prominent 20th century
pieces including both paintings and sculpture. Additionally, the
museum will host a program of world-class traveling exhibitions.

The design treats the principal Museum building as an extension of
the Cascade completing an animated pathway linking Tamanyan Park to
the Monument by exterior stairway and interior escalators. The Museum
building will provide a public plaza, ornamental pool, sculpture
courts, a cafe and an exterior cinema all accessible to passers-by
as well as visitors to the Museum itself.

The Foundation has repaired the halls, the fountains and water
removing system, has put into the action the moving stairway and
installed public toilets in the area. Thousands of people make use
of the moving stairway daily that provides a shortest travel from
downtown Yerevan to northern quarters of the capital city.