Director of "Mother Armenia" Military Museum: May 9 is a Triple Holiday for the Armenian People (Exclusive)
"Armedia" Information, Analytical Agency presents an exclusive interview with the director of RA Defense Ministry Military Museum of Mother Armenia, Avag Harutyunyan.
- Mr. Harutyunyan , what is presented in the museum?
- The exhibion of RA Defense Ministry Military Museum of Mother Armenia mainly reflects two main topics. One part of the exhibition is dedicated to the participation of Armenian people in Great Patriotic War and second to Artsakh national-liberation war. Besides these two topics, there are also exhibitions dedicated to the participation of Armenian Generals in the Russian Imperial Army, our fidain movement and to the First Republic of Armenia.
The exhibition devoted to Armenia’s participation in World War II presents the activities of the most outstanding soldiers of the six Armenian divisions, photographs, documents and personal belongings related to their activities, Marshal Baghramyan’s office furniture. The Gallery displays the portraits of the Soviet Union heroes and Generals. There is also the black granite hall on the walls of which the names of the Soviet Union Heroes are engraved. The names of the soldiers who were killed or died during the Great Patriotic War are also immortalized there.
The second main exhibition dedicated to Artsakh Liberation War starts with peaceful demonstrations which (when it finally became clear that victory cannot be achieved by peaceful means) is followed by a gallery on massacres of Armenians in Sumgait and Baku, therefore comes the Inter-volunteer squads gallery; according to the chronology, from military operations of Shahumyan and Getashen to ceasefire. Special attention is paid to the military operation of Shushi liberation, taking into consideration its role on strategic, political and geopolitical issues.
- Who are most interested in this Museum?
- First, I must emphasize the fact that our museum is the only military and state museum within CIS countries that due to the RA Defense Ministry has no entry and exhibition fees. In order to get a more accurate idea of what interest is being shown towards the museum I should emphasize the following fact; besides the visitors from Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, we had visitors from 75 foreign countries.
By the way, the visitor's geographic scope is quite broad, ranging from South Africa to Norway, from New Zealand to Canada. The museum has had more than 60,000 visitors. I should also mention that the doors of our museum are first of all open for our young people, teenagers, our schoolchildren, students, soldiers, cadets, as the future of our country is in their hands. The museum actively works also with various veteran organizations.
- What activities does the museum organize in order to raise interest towards the history of our two great Victories?
Our museum carries out various activities not only inside the museum, but also organizes traveling exhibitions. Open classes are also held in the museum. History or military training teachers bring the schoolchildren here and organize lessons in the museum's exhibition halls dedicated to the history of the Great Patriotic and Artsakh Liberation War. We have also a new website (mayrhayastan.am), which already has about 55,000 readers from 120 countries. Besides, there is also "Mother Armenia" military museum page on Facebook.
- How do we celebrate May 9 in Armenia? Are people interested in the holiday?
- May 9 is a triple holiday for the Armenian people. It is not only the celebration of the Victory of Patriotic War, Liberation of Shushi, but also it is the day of formation of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army.
I must say with pride that "Mother Armenia" museum is the center of May 9 celebration programs and activities. Taking into consideration the 70th-anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, all these activities are more interestingly organized.
I should also inform that this year, just a few days ago, on April 28, an international exhibition in Moscow was opened which will run until October. In honor of our museum, proper preparation and submission of the formation of the national exposure of Republic of Armenia was entrusted to the "Mother Armenia" military museum.
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