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Vanadzor Fine Arts Museum
Վանաձորի կերպարվեստի թանգարան · Vanadzor Museum of Fine Arts
The fine arts museum of Vanadzor, founded in 1974 as a branch of the National Gallery of Armenia and housed in a three-storey crescent-shaped building on the city's central roundabout.
Where it is
40.8071, 44.4963
Why go
More than 2,000 works make up the collection, most of them Armenian art from the 1960s to the 1980s, spanning painting, graphic work, sculpture and decorative-applied art. Displays are arranged in themed halls across the three floors. The crescent-shaped building, with more than 1,800 square metres of space, was itself added to Armenia's list of historical and cultural monuments in 2004. It is a good fit for travellers interested in late Soviet-period Armenian art who are already in Vanadzor; others may find it a modest detour.
Near Vanadzor Fine Arts Museum
Fortress
Lori Berd Fortress
The ruined walled citadel of a medieval capital near Stepanavan, set on a promontory above the Dzoraget gorge and founded by King David Anhoghin in the 11th century.
22 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Kobayr Monastery
A partly ruined monastery on a forested cliffside of the Debed canyon near Tumanyan, reached only on foot, where fragments of medieval frescoes survive in the main church.
25 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Jukhtak Vank
Named for its pair of churches (jukht means pair in Armenian), this monastery stands in a forest clearing in Dilijan National Park on the outskirts of Dilijan.
26 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ
Monastery
Matosavank
A small monastery completed in 1247 in the forest just west of Dilijan, partly reclaimed by vegetation and reached on foot along the Medieval Monasteries Trail together with Jukhtak Vank.
27 km · straight-line distance; driving distance and time differ