History Museum of Armenia

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History Museum of Armenia

Հայաստանի պատմության թանգարան
The History Museum and the National Gallery share a building
Established	1920
Location	Yerevan, Armenia
Type	national museum
Collection size	Archaeological, Numismatic, Ethnographic
Visitors	106,900 (2019)[1]
Website	historymuseum.am

The History Museum of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի պատմության թանգարան, romanized: Hayastani patmut'yan t'angaran) is a museum in Armenia with departments of Archaeology, Numismatics, Ethnography, Modern History and Restoration. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects and was founded in 1920. Of the main collection, 35% is made up of archaeology-related items, 8% is made up of ethnography-related items, 45% is made of numismatics-related items, and 12% is made up of documents.^[2] It is regarded as Armenia's national museum and is located on Republic Square in Yerevan. The state financially supports the museum and owns both the collection and the building. The museum carries out conservation and restoration work and publishes works on Armenian architecture, archaeology, ethnography, and history. They also have published a series of reports on archaeological excavations since 1948. The museum carries out educational and scientific programs on Armenian history and culture as well.