By Asbarez | Monday, 02 March 2015
A curator from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at a scale model of Zvartnots Cathedral, a medieval Armenian building, at Yerevan's History Museum of Armenia
YEREVAN (Armenpress)—An exhibition devoted to Armenia may be held in one the world’s most prominent cultural centers, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 2017. Representatives of the Museum’s Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters are currently in Armenia discussing the details of organizing a possible exhibition.
On March 1, the head of the Museum’s medieval art department, Griffith Mann, and the Museum’s curator for Byzantine art, Helen Evans, visited the History Museum of Armenia, toured in the cultural center, and inspected the exhibits.
Following the tour, Helen Evans spoke to journalists and noted that they are particularly interested in Armenia’s medieval art.
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