Hovhannes Toumanian Museum
Hillside literary house-museum reached by fifty-four steps echoing its poet's lifespan.
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This guide to the Hovhannes Toumanian Museum in Yerevan opens with an architectural puzzle: an exact, deliberate step count built into the hillside staircase above Moskovyan street. It traces how the poet's daughter, Ashkhen Tumanyan, driven by grief after his 1923 death, gathered his manuscripts and letters into a collection that finally opened as a museum three decades later, now grown past eighteen thousand items. Inside, you'll find drafts in Tumanyan's own hand beside poems translated into more than forty languages, carrying the fables his mother told him in Lori around the world.
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