House-Museum of Derenik Demirchyan, cultural heritage monument of Armenia
The House-Museum of Derenik Demirchyan is a biographical museum in Yerevan housed in the apartment where the writer lived from 1929 until his death. The rooms preserve their original furnishings and contain approximately 670 objects including books, manuscripts, documents, and personal belongings that span different periods of his life.
The writer lived in this house from 1929 until 1956 and made significant contributions to Armenian literature as a playwright and intellectual. The museum opened in 1977 to preserve his life and work for future generations.
The house served as both home and workplace for the writer and is displayed as he used it during his lifetime. The rooms filled with personal objects offer visitors a direct sense of how he worked and spent his daily hours.
The museum occupies Apartment 4 at 29 Abovyan Street, in the centre of Yerevan, on the same street as the Yerevan City Hall area. It is a branch of the Yeghishe Charents Museum of Literature and Art, so visits follow that institution's arrangements; the flat is on an upper floor of a residential building, reached by stairs.
Among the writer's personal belongings kept here is his violin, described in the museum's records as a rare example of the Stradivari school. It sits alongside the manuscripts and books rather than in a separate music display. Visitors often pass it without noticing.
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