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Museum of Russian Art

Museum of Russian Art, Art museum in Yerevan, Armenia.

The Museum of Russian Art displays paintings, sculptures, and porcelain works from Russian artists in a building situated near the Grand Cascade. The collection spans different periods and artistic directions, showcasing creations across several centuries of Russian art history.

The museum was established by Armenian government decree No. 14 of 17 January 1979 and order No. 538 of 23 October 1980, and opened to visitors on 19 November 1984. Its core is the collection of Aram Abrahamyan (1898–1990), a Moscow urologist who began acquiring works in the early 1960s and donated them to Armenia in the late 1970s. The first director was E. A. Budaghyan (1980–1983).

The museum's name honours its founder, urologist Aram Abrahamyan, who donated his Moscow collection to his ancestral Armenia. The galleries are arranged by artistic groupings, so visitors pass through rooms devoted to the World of Art, the Blue Rose, the Jack of Diamonds and the Donkey's Tail, with a separate hall on the ground floor given to stage design.

The museum occupies the ground floor of a 1954 residential building by architect Samvel Safaryan, at Isahakyan Street 38, beside the Cafesjian Sculpture Garden. The entrance hall and galleries were designed by Jim Torosyan, architect of the Cascade, with a low ceiling cut into a semicircle and an upper gallery of arched balconies. Seven halls alternate enfilade, three on each level, with scenography in a separate ground-floor room.

The collection features artists such as Vrubel and Roerich, whose names are less widely known but held considerable importance in Russian art history. Visitors discover creators here whose work shaped the artistic thinking of their era, even if they remain lesser-known outside specialist circles.

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Tuesday-Thursday 10:30-17:00, Friday 11:00-21:30, Saturday 10:30-17:00, Sunday 11:00-15:30
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40.18949,44.51580
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October 24, 2026 20:40
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