The Directorship of the Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran announces with sorrow that the Matenadaran’s longtime colleague, Professor Robert Staehle, has passed away at the age of 97. Since 2000, he has restored a large number of bindings of manuscripts with selfless dedication. The professor highly appreciated our cultural heritage, and for 20 years, he had profoundly
On March 20-22, 2019, the Director of Matenadaran Vahan Ter-Ghevondian and the senior researcher of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA Arsen Bobokhyan will represent Armenia in the Second Academic Forum of Ancient Civilizations held in La Paz, Bolivia. The Ancient Civilizations Forum, which was set up in 2016 on Greece and China’s
The presentation took place on November 16 at the Mashtots Matenadaran. The review includes 40 authors’ articles. The 38th volume is devoted to Father, Supreme Archimandrite Andranik Kranean, the senior responsible editor of the previous volumes of the Armenological Review. Matenadaran’s Director Vahan Ter-Ghevondian delivered the opening speech. Speeches were delivered by the responsible editor
On October 18, at the hall of the University of Halle-Wittenberg after Martin Luther, took place an event dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the “Mesrop” Center for Armenian Studies, attended by RA Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan, Sachsen-Anhalt State Minister for Education and State Secretary for Culture and the
On October 8, in the Theological Hall of the Library of Strahov Monastery in Prague, which is one of the oldest and most luxurious libraries in Europe, took place the opening ceremony of the exhibition “Treasures of the earliest Christian nation: Spiritual Art and Music in Mediaeval Armenian Manuscripts” which was attended by Cardinal Dominik
A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran and the National Center for Manuscripts and Rare Books of the Republic of Kazakhstan to establish a direct and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries in the field of cultural heritage preservation. The Memorandum was signed by Director of the Matenadaran Vahan Ter-Ghevondian and
The 8th International Seminar on “The Images of Memory: The Newest Technologies of Preservation and Restoration of Manuscript and Printed Heritage” took place on September 12-15, 2018, in the Matenadaran after Mesrop Mashtots and the National Gallery of Armenia. The participants of the seminar were restorers, museum experts and archivists, high tech specialists from CIS
Today at 16:00, at Yerevan’s Avag Petrosyan 2, took place the commemorative plaque’s opening ceremony of the Matenadaran’s renowned Director, Academician, prominent Armenologist, and the great Scientist of the Medieval Armenian Philosophy Sen Arevshatyan. Director of the Matenadaran Vahan Ter-Ghevondian delivered an opening speech. Acting Mayor of Yerevan Kamo Areyan, Sen Arevshatyan’s daughter, Doctor of
Today the director of the Matenadaran named after Mesrop Mashtots Vahan Ter-Ghevondian received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Armenia Timur Urazyaev. A number of issues on cooperation between Matenadaran and scientific and educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan were discussed.
On 22 June, 2018 the opening ceremony of the “UNESCO Training on the Conservation and Restoration of Manuscripts and Archival Documents”intended for the Syrian experts was held at the “Matenadaran” Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts.Dr Vahan Ter-Ghevondian, Director of the Matenadaran, Ms Lilit Makunts, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, Mr
