Martiros Saryan House-Museum, Art museum in Yerevan, Armenia.
The Martiros Saryan House-Museum is an art museum set in the residential building in Yerevan, Armenia, where the painter lived for several decades. The house holds a large collection of his paintings alongside personal belongings and an attached studio that was his main workspace.
The Armenian painter Martiros Saryan moved into this house in 1932 and lived there until his death in 1972. The building was turned into a museum in 1967, while he was still alive, to help preserve his body of work.
The permanent display holds more than 300 works arranged chronologically across three floors, from drawings made at age 16 to the last painting, "Fairy Tale". Visitors can also enter Saryan's studio, kept as it was during his working years. The museum runs concerts of classical chamber music and educational programmes for children and young people.
The museum is in a residential part of Yerevan and is easy to reach on foot from the city center. Weekdays tend to be quieter, which makes it easier to spend time in each room without rushing.
The museum opened on 26 November 1967, during Saryan's lifetime, by a special decision of the Armenian government. Its core collection began with 50 works the painter donated himself. The street facade carries a mosaic made by Garnik Smbatyan from a sketch by Saryan.
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