WHY NAREK SARGSYAN BOUGHT CHARLES AZNAVOUR’S GRANDMA CLOTHES

Panorama.am
20:06 21/05/2008

In the left side of Cascade in Yerevan world wide famous Charles
Aznavour’s museum is being built said Narek Sargsyan, the architect
of the museum, the executive architect of North square, in e press
conference today. He said that the reconstruction of the museum
building has started last year but it will be ready in 2009 only.

According to the architect the idea of founding Charles Aznavour museum
in Armenia was created in 2006 when Armenian year was celebrating in
France. "Then the president of Armenia was Robert Kocharyan and he
ordered me to work on the place and project of it," he said.

Note: that Charles Aznavour visited the place where the museum us
being built and he found it quite a nice place. "The museum is to be
multifunctional cultural center. There will be a closed hall for 150
people, reception halls, a museum part and open cafe. Mount Ararat
is seen from the museum," said the architect.

He said that the first present to the museum will be made by himself
as once he bought the clothes of famous singer’s grandmother. "One day
the director of Parajanov museum called me and said that the clothes
are in Vernisaj for sale. I thought to let the state bodies know and
buy it but they I thought they it will take long time and bought them
myself," told the architect.