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PRESS RELEASE
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
AGBU Donates Computers to Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia
In a ceremony that took place on November 22, 2007 at the Armenian
Genocide Museum-Institute, AGBU donated computer equipment, including
desktops, printers and scanners, worth approximately $11,000 (USD) to
the Yerevan-based museum. The Genocide Museum, which is a leading center
of Armenian Genocide research, will use the donation to digitize its
extensive documentation on the Armenian Holocaust, mount professional
displays and exhibitions of documentary materials, and place documents
on the museum’s four-month-old English-language website:
Museum Director Hayk Demoyan commented at the ceremony, "The museum was
facing a huge problem. We had to digitalize the archives, otherwise we
risk losing them." He was thankful of AGBU’s donation and he said that
the modern equipment was essential to carrying out the mission of the
Genocide Museum, which is to document one of the 20th century’s greatest
crimes against humanity.
Director of the AGBU Armenian Representation Ashot Ghazarian remarked,
"I am glad AGBU could contribute to a mission of such importance." He
also added that the organization is eager to assist the museum in the
realization of various future projects.
Demoyan pointed out that, every year, new sources of information about
the Armenian Genocide surface. He also explained that there are so many
undiscovered and unexamined archives that await careful examination and
which will illuminate some of the lesser known aspects of the
catastrophe. He is planning to send museum employees to Europe, Russia
and the Middle East, with a promise to organize a display of all the
materials culled from these new sources. Furthermore, in the coming
months, the museum is planning to publish a 10-volume monograph, which
will include new translations of rare documentary materials.
The director pointed out that the number of visitors to the Armenian
Genocide Institute’s English-only website is doubling every month, and
the site has plans to expand into a multilingual site, which will
welcome Armenian, French, Russian and Turkish-language users.
AGBU’s recent donation is the latest in a series of contributions that
began with the founding of the museum in 1995.
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