The History Museum of Armenia will exhibit for the first time Eastern-Christian works from the Louvre collection. 

The works will be exhibited with selected artifacts of the History Museum of Armenia.

The exhibition titled Sacred Dialogues: From the Louvre to the History Museum of Armenia, will be opened on September 21, Independence Day of Armenia. It is a collaboration between the History Museum of Armenia and the Louvre Museum of Paris, with support from the Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport.

It will be open until March 21, 2026.

The History Museum of Armenia earlier highlighted in a press release the symbolic occasion of the opening date for a nation that was the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion and holds a deeply rooted Christian value system.

For the first time, sixteen outstanding works from the Louvre’s collections will be shown in Armenia. They will be presented in a dialogue with more than twenty precious artefacts from the History Museum of Armenia, in a specially designed exhibition display. Among the highlights loaned by the Louvre are:  the wall hanging showing of  Jonah (4th–5th century, Egypt), a relief with a cross and fish (5th–7th century, Egypt, Ermant cemetery), the reliquary of Castello di Brivio (5th century, discovered in Brivio, Italy), the “Ganay” chalice (6th–7th century, Byzantine Empire), a silver-decorated bracelet (12th–13th century, Byzantine Empire), the icon of the Virgin and Child with Saint Cyriacus and Saint George (15th century, Crete) and an icon of the Crucifixion (19th century, Jerusalem).  These works will be presented in dialogue with masterpieces from the History Museum of Armenia such as a winged cross from Dvin (7th century), the wooden capitals from the Holy Apostles Church in Sevan (9th century), a luxuriously carved door from the same church (15th century), one of the censers from Ani (13th century), the altar cross from St John Monastery in Baghesh (1770), the curtain from St John Church in Gavar (19th century), among others. A special focus will also be given to the reliquary of the Apostle Bartholomew, on loan from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, according to the museum.

Published by Armenpress, original at https://armenpress.am/en/article/1229952