Komitas Museum-Institute

About

The Komitas Museum-Institute is dedicated to Soghomon Soghomonian, known as Komitas — composer, choirmaster, folklorist, and founder of the Armenian national school of composition. It officially opened on January 29, 2015, following a 2013 proposal by then-President Serzh Sargsyan, and stands in Komitas Park on the site of the former Palace of Culture; the museum-institute building was designed by architect Arthur Meschian. The permanent exhibition spans eight thematic halls tracing Komitas's life and his work as a composer, musicologist, folk-song collector, and performer. The institute also runs a temporary exhibition hall (covering Komitas, his contemporaries, and related arts), a research center studying Armenian traditional and sacred music, a publishing house, a concert hall hosting traditional and classical music concerts, a music library with a large collection of musicological books and CDs, and educational programs including a summer school and the annual "Komitas" international conference-festival (held late September–early October).
What you can do there: tour the eight permanent exhibition halls, view temporary art/music exhibitions, attend concerts, visit the music library, join educational programs (children/schoolchildren), and take a guided tour in Armenian, Russian, or English.