There are amazing exhibits dating from the Stone Age to the second half of the 20th-century – This Museum preserves about 15,000 exhibits and was created in 1964

I walked in and was the only one around at the time so I had the museum to myself which was nice, I had a chat with the ladies at the museum who were interested where came from, Armenians are curious here, I love that!

The museum show cased the life of the natives of the Ararat valley and different regions of Armenia, Atsakh, Western Armenia

Archeological hall, this is where the every day life of the Ararat Valley is presented

There was also this typographical machine dating back to 1809. This typographical machine was a gift (1894) to Catholicos Mkrtich I from Victoria Queen of Great Britain. 

Later the typographical machine was moved from Mother See of Holy Ejmiatsin to the city printing-house, then at the end of 1970s to the Historical and Ethnographic Museum of Ejmiatsin

This stone sink was purifying the water, it was dropping one drop at a time through the stone and into the pot underneath

Many interesting exhibits were on display, ranging from coins to pots, rugs, household items that were used at the time, furniture and clothins

Money of different eras

The chronology of the museum start from the Copper – Stone Age, early bronze age till the Middle Ages

In the archeologically hall there are examples of Traditional “daraz” of the women

An example of a tomb that archeologists found in the area

The objects in this museum are of great importance and wont be found in Europe or Western Asia and scientists are constantly studying the artifacts to this day