On September 5, the opening ceremony of the exposition dedicated to the activities of the Lazarian noble dynasty took place in Matenadaran. During the ceremony the Acting Director of Matenadaran Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, senior researcher of Matenadaran Bakhtiar Hovakimyan, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Armenia Ivan made speeches. Vahan Ter-Ghevondian mentioned
On June 15-17, 2017 at the Sorbonne University in Paris an international conference “The Physiologus Between East and West: Distribution and Transmission of an Early Christian Text on Nature” took place. This early Christian writing in Greek, probably composed in the late 2nd century in Alexandria, describes the nature and behavior of various real and
On the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the foundation of the Armenian diocese in Lvov an exhibition “Polish Armenians: Manuscript Writing Traditions” was opened in Matenadaran on May 31, 2017, at 17:00. In 1367 by the edict of King Casimir III the Great of Polish-Lithuanian union, Armenian Gregory bishop got the right to establish a
“The Faces of Memory” the Fifth International Seminar was devoted to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which this year had headline “Revived Cultural Heritage, Survived Manuscripts”. During the frames of seminars on October 27-29, 2015, at the “Matenadaran” Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts of Yerevan were specialists of leading centers of conservation sphere
Awarding ceremony to donor Manuela Salvini de Ghirach Mirman and exhibition of a valuable collection related to history of the noble Mirmanyan family was held on 29 April, 2017 at Mashtots Matenadaran. During the ceremony, speeches were delivered by the Head of the Department of International Relations of the Matenadaran Vardi Keshishian, the senior fellow
The Serbian publishing house PESIC I SINOVI has recently published a translation of Movsēs Khorenats‘i’s “History of Armenia,” which has aroused great interest among Serbian readers.On June 12, Vesna Pesic, the director of the publishing house, linguist and publicist, visited Matenadaran and talked to the director Vahan Ter-Ghevondian. Vesna Pesic donated a copy of Khorenats‘i’s
10 guides will travel to Germany for an international training as a result of the cooperation of Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and the Matenadaran.On October 8, the Feast of the Holy Translators, the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative has decided to grant US $20,000 to the Yerevan Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, the Matenadaran, to facilitate
From April 5 to 9, 2021, the Russian State Library hosted the 5th International Research-Practical Seminar of Restorers entitled “Document Restoration: Conservatism and Innovation”, which is the largest and most authoritative platform for the exchange of experience of specialists in this field. The seminar aimed to train restorers, curators of library and museum collections, to
Mashtots Matenadaran and the Renshin Investment Company signed a memorandum of cooperation in April of this year aiming to support the research, research-technical works and publications of Matenadaran.The management of Matenadaran is pleased to announce that within the framework of the cooperation between our institutions, which is very important for the preservation of national values,
A memorandum of cooperation has recently been signed between Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran and the University of Hamburg. On the initiative of Michael Friedrich, the director of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg, and Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, the director of Matenadaran, a direct and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two
