On September 18, a one-week training program was launched in the Restoration Department of the “Matenadaran” Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts with the partnership of a group of specialists from Northern Iraq (Erbil) led by Archbishop Najeeb Mikhaeel, Leader of the Chaldean Church and Director of the Digital Centre of Eastern Manuscripts. The project
On September 14, a delegation led by Ivan Korčok, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovak Republic, visited Mashtots Matenadaran. With great interest, the guests got acquainted with the Study of Medieval Armenian Literature and the manuscript heritage of Artsakh.
On July 21, Nathalie Loiseau, a French politician and a Member of the European Parliament, visited Mashtots Matenadaran accompanied by Jonathan Lacotte, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Armenia. The guests, accompanied by Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, the director of Matenadaran, toured the museum building and got acquainted with the medieval Armenian literature, the manuscript
On July 3, within the framework of the 22nd Yerevan Perspectives International Music Festival, journalists of several leading Italian news agencies accompanying Ricardo Muti, the chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, and the Honorary Director of the Rome Opera, visited Mashtots Matenadaran. Accompanied by Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, the director
On June 17, Bishop Christopher of Coventry, a member of the House of Lords, accompanied by Bishop T. Hovakim Manukyan, the Primate of the Armenian Diocese of Great Britain and Ireland, visited Matenadaran. A meeting was held with Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, the director of Matenadaran.At the end of the visit, the guests, accompanied by the director
Our compatriot Jerar Dedeian, professor and lecturer at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier (France), has recently been awarded membership of the French Academy of Overseas Sciences.The management and staff of Matenadaran warmly congratulate our dear colleague and wish him many years of prolific activity and further success.
The international online conference on Armenian-Near Eastern Studies dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Prof. Hakob Papazyan will be held on July 1-3. See the conference program here.
On June 16, Dmitri Hasratyan, the researcher at the Institute of History and Archeology of the Republic of North Ossetia, and Hagop Khetagurov, the older priest of the Alanian Church in Ossetia, visited Mashtots Matenadaran. Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, the Director of Matenadaran, received the guests. They discussed issues related to the Armenian-Alanian historical relations. The parties
On March 10, 2016 was opened the exhibition “Armenia. Legend of Existence” in the State Historical Museum of Russia, where are presented via 160 exhibits the history of the Armenian people and cultural values to the Russian public by three major museums of Armenia: Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran, the History Museum of Armenia and the museum
Gabikyan Karapet. The history of the destruction of Minor Armenia and its great capital of Sebastia / Translation by Knarik Ter-Davtyan. Yer:. Nairi, 2015.-560c. On February 17, 2016, at Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots was held the presentation of the Russian translation of Karapet Gabikyan’s book “Yeghernapatum of Sebastia” (translator Knarik Ter-Davtyan). The publication won medals
