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Sisian History Museum
Townsfolk are very proud of their museum, which showcases a modest array of carpets, archaeological artefacts and ethnographic displays. It faces the sculpture park, making a visit to both an easy proposition.
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Boloraberd
The Boloraberd fortress crowns a rocky crest across from the monastery. Some hikers have tried to walk over the pass and down to Yeghegis but the other side of the mountain is a steep and dangerous hike.
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Museum of the Middle East
The Museum of the Middle East houses a small but diverse collection of artefacts from Zoroastrian Persia and early regional civilisations from Luristan and Elam. It affords a peek at Lenin’s headless statue in a courtyard.
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City Historical Museum
The city historical museum is worth wandering into if you are killing time in Kapan and need to catch up on your Syunik regional history. Among the thousands of artefacts are 19th-century swords, carpets and kilims.
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Yeghegnadzor Regional Museum of Vayots Dzor
The interesting building with its horseshoe-shaped entrance augers well, but the collection in this modest museum holds little of interest. Its only artefact of note is a 14th-century khachkar with intricate carving.
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Sisavan Church
Originally built in the 6th century, Sisavan Church was restored as recently as the 20th century. It combines an elegant square-cross floor with some striking sculptures of royal and ecclesiastical patrons inside and out.
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Vanadzor Museum of Fine Arts
There are nearly 2000 works of art on display at this branch of the National Gallery of Armenia, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and decorative arts. Most are the work of artists from the Lori region.
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Metsamor Museum
The Metsamor Museum displays evidence of thousands of years of civilisation from an early Iron Age settlement excavated nearby. The collection includes gold jewellery from 600 BC and earlier, and an ancient astrological stone.
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Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
A large research staff observes and studies the stars through five observational instruments at this Soviet-era observatory complex, focusing on research into instability phenomena. Contact the observatory in advance to take a guided tour (AMD2000).
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Surp Shogahat Church
The 17th-century Surp Shogahat Church rather pales beside the splendour of its neighbours in Echmiadzin, but it’s a sturdy stone structure with simple, elegant lines. It was rebuilt on the foundations of a chapel to one of the companions of Hripsime and Gayane.
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Dilijan Historic Museum
The Dilijan Historic Centre is a little cobbled street next to Myasnikyan Poghots. This collection of stone and wooden traditional buildings includes shops, a hotel, eateries, souvenir stalls and workshops for local craftspeople. The complex was thoroughly renovated in 2007.
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Kobayr Monastery
Perched above the hamlet of Kobayr is the 12th-century monastery of the same name. The main church has some partially restored frescoes and a detached 3th-century bell tower; the church was being restored at the time of research. There are also three chapels, one with a scenic balc
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Sculpture Park
The sculpture park in town one block from Sisakan St displays stone carvings from different millennia, including sarcophagi, phallus stones, ram stones and megaliths. You can spot the evolution of the pagan khachkars to roughstone crosses and finally medieval Armenian khachkars.
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Museum of Axel Bakounts
This pretty villa with its stone walls, timber veranda and courtyard garden was the home of writer Axel Bakounts (or Bakunts), who died in Stalin’s 1937 purges. It features his personal effects and furnishings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The surrounding neighbourho
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Verisheen
About 2km northwest of the avtokayan is the village of Verisheen, which houses the ancient Surp Hripsime Church. The barrel-vaulted structure saw restoration in 2007 and is believed to have been built on top of an old pagan temple. Continuing on the main road northwest you’ll spot
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Hovhannes Tumanyan House Museum
Those who have already visited the Hovhannes Tumanyan Museum in Yerevan will find this timber house where he grew up interesting, but those unfamiliar with his life and work will find the lack of English-language labelling frustrating. The house itself gives an interesting glimpse
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Monastery of Arkaz
Another 3.5km along the road from Surp Stepanos Church is the Monastery of Arkaz. It is well known for holding a piece of the True Cross under a stone marker in the back of the church. The church sees many visitors during the last two Sundays of October, when locals arrive in drove
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Norarar Pordzarakan Arvesti Kentovon
The Norarar Pordzarakan Arvesti Kentovon (Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art) is a large, well-appointed gallery and art complex . Yervand Kochar’s 1959 figure Melancholy pines at the entrance. Most of the artists in residence are in their 20s, and avant-garde concer
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Yerevan Museum
This new museum covers the foundation, expansion and development of Armenia’s capital. The central display on the ground floor is an enormous scale model of 19th-century Yerevan (best seen from the balcony on the floors above). Other exhibits include the knives, jewellery, pottery
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Ijevan Local Lore Museum
On the road to the winery you’ll pass this little museum, with a couple of rooms of ethnographical displays. The enthusiastic museum curator, Nariman Tananyan, enjoys showing off the ancient battle gear on display. Don’t be surprised if he yanks a thousand-year-old sabre out of the
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