18.05.2024


May 18 is International Museum Day. The Armenian Genocide Museum has, since 2014, joined European Museums Night. This year the event was held on International Museum Day with the theme “Educational and Research Museums”.

Visitors to the Armenian Genocide Museum had the opportunity to explore its permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as attend two public lectures. The first speaker was Regina Galustyan, a researcher in the AGMI V. Dadrian Department of Comparative Genocide Studies, who presented a lecture titled "Methods of Armenian Genocide Implementation: Deportation". The second speaker was Tehmine Martoyan, Senior Researcher in the AGMI Department for Armenian Genocide Victims and Survivors Documentation and Research. She presented a lecture titled "The Extermination of Armenians and Greeks of Smyrna: Testimonies of Eyewitness Survivors".

This year, for the first time, all visitors had the opportunity to receive, as gifts, books published by the museum in various years. This initiative continued during the following days.