History of the museum

The house of Khachatur Abovyan is one of the innermost sanctuaries of the Armenians. The house was closed in the past. The story goes that pilgrims imprinted their kiss with timidity on the walls of the house and left with a handful of soil. A long term wish of the Armenian people to see the house of the great enlightener to be turned into a museum was realized in 1939.

   After the establishment of Soviet power, according to the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Armenian SSR issued on April 25, 1838, the writer’s house in Kanaker was reconstructed and in the end of 1939 it became a house-museum. A newly built museum has 500 square meters of exhibition area consists of 12 departments.