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\"Museum<\/a>Works of Great Armenian Wizard Edward Ghazaryan<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Museum of folk art is situated in Abovyan\u00a0Square, near the monument of the Armenian visionary\u00a0writer Khachatur Abovyan. The center\u2019s collection\u00a0recruitment works were done by the efforts of the prominent figures of Armenian fine arts, such as M. Saryan, H.\u00a0Kojoyan, H. Babayan and others. However, this unique\u00a0center of Armenian culture and lifestyle that presents the\u00a0samples of Armenian decorative-applied art and paintings\u00a0is named after Hovhannes Sharambeyan, who actually\u00a0founded it in 1978.
\nThe collection of the museum, which consists of\u00a012000 exhibits, gives the opportunity to have a clear idea\u00a0of the various branches of art and their development\u00a0stages. The museum has 4 halls for permanent exhibitions. The number of items being exhibited in these halls\u00a0is nearly 2000. Having entered the museum from the first\u00a0steps you feel the homely atmosphere as if you enter a big\u00a0Armenian house each corner of which presents the history of a branch of art. The first hall houses Armenian\u00a0embroidered tablecloths and ancient pitchers. Here you\u00a0will find ancient and modern Armenian carpets and rugs\u00a0with different decoration patterns, as well as threads of\u00a0different colors and a weaving loom. In Armenian reality\u00a0the carpets are symbolic in their usage. Among them the\u00a0most widespread one is the carpet-cross. A unique series\u00a0of rugs make a category of special carpets called vishapagorg (dragon carpet). People used to hang them on the\u00a0walls of their rooms as they believed that the carpets with\u00a0sacred symbols would protect the family from misfortunes.
\nThe first floor of the museum also houses a gift shop\u00a0where you can buy the exact copies of the exhibits. The\u00a0next hall presents a rich collection of Armenian silver\u00a0ornaments and silver utensils. One of the inseparable elements of Armenian traditional lifestyle is wooden churn\u00a0(khnotsi) with the help of which Armenian women used to\u00a0make butter from yogurt. In this hall you can also see\u00a0spinning wheals, ceramic ware, torches and other household items.
\nThe pride of the museum is the collection of Edward\u00a0Ghazaryan\u2019s micro-miniatures which will not leave visitors indifferent. Edward Ghazaryan, who was awarded by\u00a0a title of \u201cA great wizard in small Armenia\u201d, presents a\u00a0wonderland of works made on the smallest items. With\u00a0the help of a microscope you will witness a real miracle;\u00a0the master has built movable and stationary worlds on a\u00a0rice grain or on thin hair or in the needle hole, such as the\u00a0caravan of camels, Paganini playing the violin and David\u00a0Copperfield making tricks in the needle hole, the highway\u00a0with cars in a half piece of a rice grain, wooden violins of\u00a0Stradivarius on a man\u2019s hair, the crystal cross-stone with\u00a0the portraits of Armenian thinkers and so on. It is noteworthy that he has worked with hand-made tools which\u00a0are the common drills, scalpels and tweezers only 100\u00a0times smaller than the original ones.
\nIt is impossible to express with words the admiration\u00a0and wonder that you feel walking in the halls of the museum. Each visitor must see all these wonders with their\u00a0own eyes, after which they will pack a whole world of\u00a0beautiful memories to take with them from Armenia.<\/p>\n

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