Yeghegnadzor Regional History Museum
Museum exhibition halls (Photo by Stephanie Moore, My Armenia Program, Smithsonian Institution and USAID)
One of Momik’s famous khachkars (Photo by Stephanie Moore, My Armenia Program, Smithsonian Institution and USAID)
Interested in the cultural and ancient history of Vayots Dzor? This museum is the perfect place to get your historical fill. The museum holds over 12,000 artifacts, which are on a
rotational display throughout the museum’s four galleries. In the archaeological display cases, you can find Stone Age obsidian tools, black and red 3rd to 2nd-century BCE pottery discovered in nearby excavations, bronze belts from the Urartian period, a bear ceremonial vessel found near Areni and artifacts from the 13th- to 14th-century Jewish cemetery in Yeghegis. A particularly spectacular artifact includes a khachkar created by the architect and illuminator Momik in the 14th century. This khachkar is one
verifiable khachkars attributed to him. The museum also features an of a three ethnographic exhibition and a numismatics display that hosts a range of coins and paper money dating as far back as the 1st century BCE.
Cultural Attractions