A delegation from Matenadaran recently visited the Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library in Qom, Iran. Director Mahmoud Marashi Najafi, son of the centre’s founder, welcomed the delegation. The library is the largest centre of Islamic manuscripts in Iran and the third largest in the Islamic world, with a collection of approximately 85,000 manuscripts in different languages,
As part of the Matenadaran delegation’s visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a presentation was given by Yvette Tajarian, a senior researcher at Matenadaran, at the museum of the Monastery of Saint Amenaprkich of New Julfa. The presentation was on the album “A compilation of Photographs from Mashtots Matenadaran’s Collection”. Yvette Tajarian talked about
The department has played an invaluable role in the salvation of Armenian manuscripts and helped to restore and preserve the Armenian collections of Jerusalem, Aleppo, Antelias, Bzoummar, and Jugha. In 2023, the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown, the largest institution in the USA with samples of Armenian art, proposed a project to Matenadaran for
The Donation Hall of Matenadaran was the venue for a ceremony where “Surb Mesrop Mashtots” gold, silver, and bronze commemorative medals were presented. These medals were created through a collaboration between Matenadaran and the “47 design” company, with each medal being minted with a symbolic 405-numbered example. It is worth noting that these commemorative medals
Anna Ohanjanyan, a senior researcher at Matenadaran, participated in the international workshop titled “The Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creeds: Tensions, Rapprochements, Effects,” held in Oxford. It was organized by the Oxford Center for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, Bologna, and Maison Française d’Oxford. The workshop was dedicated to the
The RA Government decided to provide Matenadaran with 50 million AMD to purchase a new air cooling system. The system is crucial because it ensures not only favourable working conditions but also the necessary thermo-humid environment in the depositories. The Aurora humanitarian initiative supported the installation of new thermal regulation equipment for Matenadaran’s digital data
Ani Avetisyan, who works as an academic staff member at the Department of Oriental Studies in Matenadaran and specializes in Turkology and Ottoman studies, was invited to participate in the “7th International Congress” («The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan: The Foundation of a New Renaissance») in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Approximately 350 renowned scientists, codicologists, heads of museum
The collaboration of the public and private sectors implemented the program with the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yeghishe Charents House-Museum, and Antares Publishing House. The RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports supported the initiative. During the event, Ara Khzmalyan, the director of Matenadaran,
She is a Lebanese-Armenian artist who uses the batik technique to reproduce the history of Armenian bibliography, miniature painting, decoration, and ornamentation. Saghdasaryan devoted her work “Immortality” from her “Foliage” collection to Matenadaran. They reached an agreement to organize a thematic exhibition shortly in Matenadaran.
On 30 November and 1 December an international conference entitled “Plenitude of Grace, Plenitude of Humanity: St. Nerses Shnorhali at the Juncture of Millennia”, dedicated to the 850th anniversary of the death of Catholicos Nerses Shnorhali was held at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome (organizers: Archbishop Poghos Levon Zekiyan, Marko Bais, Željko Paša, Zaroui
