The conference aims to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Iranian-Armenian artist Andre Sevrugian. Ara Khzmalyan, Director of Matenadaran, Artur Martirosyan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Armenia, H.E. Mr Mehdi Sobhani, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Republic of Armenia, and Yvette
Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran is conducting a one-week course in cooperation with the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNESCO at the Center for the Digitization of Oriental Manuscripts in Erbil. The course aims to continue the mission of preserving and restoring written heritage in different parts of the world. During the course, two restoration specialists
The movement of repatriation of relics of Armenian culture is inextricably linked with the name of New York resident Harutyun Hazaryan. Hazaryan began collecting fragments of Armenian culture around the world following the Great Genocide on the advice of Archbishop Garegin Hovsepyan in the 1920s. He believed that the best place for the scattered values
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of California organized the conference to bring together scientists, researchers, and post-graduate students from different countries to present studies on various fields of Armenian studies such as language, literature, history, anthropology and art history. During the conference, Anoush Apresyan presented a report titled “The
Sixty-five years ago, on March 3, 1959, the Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR granted Matenadaran the status of a research institute. Matenadaran was a state repository of ancient manuscripts, and with this decision, its main activities were officially established and remain unchanged to this day. These activities include conservation and restoration of manuscript
A collection titled “Cultural Heritage of Artsakh: Armenian history and its traces in Nagorno-Karabakh” has been recently published by the publishing house of Kiel University in Germany (Editors: Andreas Muller, Harutyun G. Harutyunyan, Dagmar Heller, Martin Tamcke). The collection is a result of an international conference with the same name that was organized by the
During the visit of the Matenadaran delegation to Lebanon, they met with His Holiness Father Gevorg Senior Archimandrite Noratunkyan, the Patriarchal Vicar of the Bzommar Patriarchal Congregation, as well as with the curator of the museum and library of the Bzommar monastery, His Grace Bedros Marashlian, and other congregants. The Matenadaran delegation was given a
Yvette Tajarian, the head of the Matenadaran Museum and a senior researcher of the Department of Oriental Studies, visited Japan from February 19 to 25 at the invitation of Karen Hamada. Hamada is a Japanese Armenologist and a professor at the Regional Studies Faculty of Tokyo University. During her visit, Yvette Tajarian delivered a lecture
Businessman and philanthropist Vahe Badalyan donated to Matenadaran a device for scanning the covers of manuscripts in a three-dimensional format, thanks to which the possibility of studying the bindings of manuscripts, determining their features, as well as identifying potential injuries will significantly increase. The scanning results will help develop the business activities of Matenadaran. The
From January 27 to 28, 2024, Professor Kristine Kostikyan, the leading researcher of Matenadaran and Doctor of Historical Sciences, attended an International workshop titled “Tolerance and Intolerance in the Early Modern World” at the University of Tokyo. She presented a report on ” Challenges Faced by the Armenian Christians under Shiite Islamic Rule in the
