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National Gallery of ArmeniaՀայաստանի Ազգային Պատկերասրահ
The world's largest Armenian fine arts collection
Established in 1921 and home to over 40,000 works — from Aivazovsky's seascapes to Saryan's blazing colours, Kandinsky's abstractions to Chagall's dreams.
About the Gallery
A Century of Armenian Art & World Culture
The National Gallery of Armenia is the country's major fine art institution and the world's largest museum by its Armenian fine arts collection.
The National Gallery of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի Ազգային Պատկերասրահ) is the country’s principal fine art museum, located in the iconic building on Republic Square in the heart of Yerevan. Established in 1921, it holds the world’s largest collection of Armenian fine arts and the second-largest collection of Hovhannes Aivazovsky works on Earth.
The Collection
The collection encompasses more than 40,000 exhibits of Armenian and foreign fine art and decorative-applied art, displayed across 56 luminous exhibition halls. The Armenian Painting Department alone holds over 7,000 works.
World Art Departments
The Gallery's foreign art collections include over 1,150 works of European, American, and Russian artists, a Graphics and Engraving department with 12,000 reserves, and a Sculpture section with 1,200 specimens.
Education & Community
Interactive educational programmes have run since 2008. Since 2015, a Summer School has been organised for children of all ages. The Gallery has 12 branches across Yerevan and the regions of Armenia.
Permanent Collection
Six Departments, One Civilisation
From ancient Egyptian decorative art to Soviet-era Armenian painting — 56 halls spanning the full arc of world visual culture.
Master Artists
The Painters of the Gallery
From the Armenian masters who defined a national art identity, to the global titans who left masterworks in Yerevan's walls.
The National Gallery holds the world's second-largest collection of Aivazovsky's works — more than 40 breathtaking seascapes by the Armenian-Russian marine master whose canvases seem to make light itself move. The dedicated Aivazovsky Hall is the most celebrated room in the building.
Saryan's luminous, sun-drenched canvases defined Armenian painting in the 20th century. His portraits and landscapes glow with an intensity that could only have come from Yerevan's blazing light.
The Gallery's foreign collection counts Wassily Kandinsky's abstract compositions and Marc Chagall's dreaming figures among its international treasures — a remarkable assembly for any gallery in the world.
Avetisyan's explosive canvases, rooted in Armenian folklore and tragedy, represent some of the most powerful images in 20th-century national art — preserved and celebrated in the Gallery's Armenian halls.
Virtual Experience
Walk the Galleries — From Anywhere on Earth
Step inside the Aivazovsky Hall and the Armenian painting rooms in this high-resolution virtual walkthrough — preserved digitally for the world.
Exhibitions
Current & Recent Exhibitions
The Gallery hosts a rotating programme of temporary exhibitions alongside its permanent collection — check gallery.am for the latest programme.
A solo exhibition exploring the intersection of visual art and musical resonance by contemporary Armenian artist Grigor Aghasyan — paintings that seem to hum with an inner score.
A rare behind-the-scenes look at the conservation, research, and cataloguing work undertaken by the Gallery's curatorial staff — newly discovered works and restoration stories.
A retrospective of the life and work of Hovhannes Alhazian — an Armenian artist who fled the massacres of Van and forged a remarkable career in Paris, bridging two worlds.
An exhibition dedicated to Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian), the Armenian-French painter celebrated for his powerful figurative work and intense emotional line — a diaspora master returning home.
Photography Archive
Inside the National Gallery
The Aivazovsky halls, Armenian painting rooms, and the galleries that hold masterpieces from across the world.
Plan Your Visit
Tickets, Hours & Guided Tours
Open Tuesday–Saturday 11:00–17:30, Sunday 11:00–16:30. Closed Monday. Guided tours available in Armenian, Russian, English, and French.
Yerevan 0010
Armenia