Armenia joining International Museum Day and Museum NightMay 17, 2022 - 15:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On the International Museum Day on May 18, all the museums in Armenia will open their gates to visitors for free, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport reveals. The country will also celebrate Museum Night on May 21, and entrance will be free on that day too – from 11 am to 12 am. People are free to visit as many museums as is physically possible in one day. According to the Ministry, 125 museums are participating in both events with hundreds of initiatives throughout Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). International Museum Day was officially established in 1977 with the adoption of a resolution during the ICOM General Assembly in Moscow, Russia to create an annual event “with the aim of further unifying the creative aspirations and efforts of museums and drawing the attention of the world public to their activity. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |