Armenian Genocide Museum
Somber hilltop memorial and archive of documents, photos and testimony from the nineteen fifteen deportations.
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This guide to the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan opens at an eternal flame set one and a half meters underground, and the disputed toll it is meant to honor, from Turkey's official figure of three hundred thousand to historians' far higher counts. It traces the defiance behind this monument: a 1965 march of some one hundred thousand people through Soviet Yerevan demanding a memorial, and the basalt needle and twelve leaning slabs that architects Arthur Tarkhanyan and Sashur Kalashyan raised here two years later. Each of those twelve slabs stands for one of the lost provinces of what was once Western Armenia.
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