European Heritage Days in Erebuni museum
This year “Erebuni” Historical & Archaeological museum-reserve will join the European Heritage Days with a special programme. Being loved and awaited initiative for the thousands of the European citizens, the celebration of the European Heritage Days is an important event for observing the national values as the European common heritage. In “Erebuni” Historical & Archaeological museum-reserve the launch of the European Heritage Days will be marked by a new exhibition entitled “From Erebuni to Persepolis. At the Crossroad of the Urartian and Achaemenid Cultures”. It will be realized within the framework of the collaboration between “Erebuni” Historical & Archaeological museum-reserve and the Iranian National Committee for ICOM.
The exhibition of the illustrated posters, exhibited in the museum’s inner yard, will mentally lead its visitors to the Urartian and Achaemenid eras, by representing the history and the culture of the World Heritage unique monument Persepolis and one of the important values of the Armenian Archaeological heritage Erebuni. It’s a new opportunity for the visitors to compare the existed cultural interactions between these two ancient cities, as well as to think about their important cultural significance and preservation. In Armenia the European Heritage Days is held with the theme “The Heritage of Commemoration” proposed by the RA Ministry of Culture and dedicated to the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. Joining the abovementioned initiative, Erebuni museum together with the Music Library will come up with a joint concert programme “The folk music of the Van region” representing a small part of the Western Armenia’s rich heritage, abandoned in the result of the Armenian Genocide. A whole series of folk songs in the participation of the Music Library Choir will be dedicated to the museum visitors.
The events, organized within the framework of the European Heritage Days, will be summed up with the interesting lectures on the Urartian and Achaemenid cultures, held by the leading Armenian and Iranian specialists.
The opening of the exhibition “From Erebuni to Persepolis. At the Crossroad of the Urartian and Achaemenid Cultures” will be held in ″Erebuni″ Historical & Archaeological Museum-Reserve on September 26, 2015 at 12:00.