22.05.2014
Russian edition of the American Forbes magazine has included the Armenian Genocide Museum in the list of 9 memorial museums to be visited by everyone. The list is dedicated to the opening 9/11 Memorial Museum on 21 May, in New York, in the memory of the victims of terrorist attack on 11 September, 2001.
The “Must-See” list also includes the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem (Yad Vashem), Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Japan), Gulag History Museum in Moscow, the Chernobyl Museum in Kiev, the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, which is dedicated to the policy of racial discrimination in the country in 1948-1994, etc.
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute was opened in 1995, on the 80th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Now renovation and the preparative works of a new exhibition are carried out in the Museum. In April 2015 the Museum will reopen with a totally new exhibition.
