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Matenadaran

Մատենադարան · Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts · Mashtots Matenadaran

Yerevan's research institute of ancient manuscripts on Mashtots Avenue, holding about 20,000 manuscripts in Armenian and other languages, with a museum in its 1945–1959 building.

Where it is

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40.1921, 44.5211

Why go

The Matenadaran is a working research institute first, so what visitors see in the museum is a selection from a collection of about 20,000 manuscripts. The collection was entered on UNESCO's Memory of the World register in 1997, a documentary-heritage programme separate from the World Heritage List. The original building is by the architect Mark Grigoryan, and a new research building designed by Arthur Meschyan opened beside it in 2011 as the collection grew. It suits anyone interested in the Armenian script, book art or medieval scholarship.

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City

Yerevan

Yerevan is Armenia's capital and the base for almost every trip to the country: a low-rise city built largely from pink volcanic tuff, with a dense cafe and dining culture, serious museums and manuscript collections, Soviet-modernist architecture, and monasteries, wine country and Lake Sevan all within a day's return drive.

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