City Tour
     During this tour one can see Yerevan downtown with its beautiful streets and squares, Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to the Genocide, Cascade steps with an astonishing view of Mt Ararat. By visitors’ choice the guests can visit the ruins of Erebuni fortress with the adjacent museum, Matenadaran-the repository of ancient manuscripts, National Art Gallery – with its rich collection of paintings and other historical places and museums. 

Matenadaran
 

     The Matenadaran is one of the oldest and richest book-depositories in the world. Its collection of about 17000 manuscripts includes almost all the areas of ancient and medieval Armenian culture and sciences - history, geography, grammar, philosophy, law, medicine, mathematics-cosmography, theory of calendar, alchemy-chemistry, translations, literature, chronology, art history, miniature, music and theatre, as well as manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Greek, Syrian, Latin, Ethiopian, Indian, Japanese and others. In this center of cultural heritage many originals, lost in their mother languages and known only of their Armenian translations, have been saved from loss.

     The history of the Matenadaran dates back to the creation of the Armenian alphabet in 405. This center of manuscripts has a history of centuries and the history continues now as well. Visit the Virtual Matenadaran, and find out yourself! 

National Gallery of Armenia   

     National Gallery of Armenia is situated in the center of Yerevan in the Republic Square. It has been located there since its foundation, in 1921. However, the first two-floor structure built in black tufa has been resurfaced with white stone and, in 1978, a new eight-floor section was opened. In its relatively short period of existence the Gallery has created a rich collection of Armenian, Russian, and West European works (over twenty thousand objects). Donatello, Tintoretto, Fragonard, Courbet, Rousseau, Serov, Kandinsky, Chagall, Aivazosky (Aivazian), Saryan, Yakulov, Carzou are some of the artists who have made the Gallery famous.