More people visit museums of Tumanyan and Khachaturian
16.01.2010 17:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 14 thousand 350 people visited the House Museum of
Aram Khachaturian in 2009 and 13 thousand in 2008. "Increase in the
number of visitors last year was natural since our permanent
exhibition was opened only in June 2008," Armine Grigoryan, director
of the House Museum of Aram Khachaturian told PanARMENIAN.Net. "By
spring we project to repair the outer arches of the building. If this
problem is solved then we will be able to perform many programs, " the
museum director said.

26 thousand people visited the museum of the great Armenian writer
Hovhannes Tumanyan in 2009, the year of Tumanyan’s 140th anniversary.
"This surpasses the last year’s figure by 8-10 thousand. We will try
to keep the level of attendance,’ director оÑ? House Museum of Tumanyan
Narine Tukhikyan said.

According to her, the museum staff have developed programs for
students. "We came up with various museum games, such as the fair of
tales, where museum visitors can buy the attributes of Tumanyan’s
fairy tales,’ Narine Tuhikyan said. For this purpose, the museum spent
its own funds. However, to participate in these games, visitors will
have to make an additional contribution: for example, to buy another
ticket.

The Museum of Tumanyan was established in 1953 in Yerevan by the
daughter of the poet Ashkhen Tumanyan. The museum recreates the
atmosphere surrounding Tumanyan the whole his life from 1900 to 1923.
Personal library of the poet of 8000 volumes on Armenian Studies,
history, culture, religion and folklore. The library is open to
scholars.

The museum of Aram Khachaturian, created by architect Edward Altunyan
with sketches of Mark Grigoryan, includes the house, gifted to the
composer by the Armenian government in 1947. Khachaturian’s music
sounds in all rooms. A grand piano in the study, original piano
scores, musical literature, working baton, posters and costumes for
ballets are exposed. Open competitions are held in the chamber concert
hall every two years, from 1 to 8 June, for the best instrumental
piece.