Vernissage Market
Sprawling open-air bazaar of handmade carpets, silverwork, and woodcarving, born from a survival-era artists' market.
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This guide to Vernissage Market in Yerevan opens with a question: what do you sell when your factory job disappears and your savings turn to dust? It follows the artists and out-of-work engineers who began laying paintings, family silver and Soviet clocks on blankets in a Yerevan park as the Soviet economy collapsed in the late 1980s, and how the market earned its name, borrowed from a French term for an art opening. By 1993 the city had pushed the secondhand sellers onto Aram and Buzand streets, where the market has spread every weekend since.
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