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WEBSITE OF MUSEUM-INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ALREADY LAUNCHED
Noyan Tapan
April 21, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENIANS TODAY - NOYAN TAPAN. The website of
the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide, www.genocide-museum.am,
is already operating in English. It has 500-600 visitors every
day. As historian Hayk Demoyan, the Museum's Director, said
at the April 21 press conference, that number will grow in the
coming days in connection with the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide. According to the Director, the launching of the website's
English department has purely strategic significance, as it presents
the official position of the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide.
The website will also have Armenian, Russian, and Turkish versions
in the future.
The Museum's website consists of two parts: the horizontal part
presents information on the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide
and the left perpendicular part contains documents and photographs,
memories of people having experienced the Armenian Genocide, which
are periodically refreshed.
The latest materials of that part are evidence of Jewish and Swedish
eye-witnesses about the Genocide.
Besides, a virtual museum is presented on the website: any person from
any point of the world can visit the website, roam about the memorial
complex and museum in the three-dimensional virtual territory. It was
mentioned that in average 150-300 thousand people visit the Museum
every year and under the circumstance of existence of an electronic
museum their number will grow considerably.
Noyan Tapan
April 21, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 21, ARMENIANS TODAY - NOYAN TAPAN. The website of
the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide, www.genocide-museum.am,
is already operating in English. It has 500-600 visitors every
day. As historian Hayk Demoyan, the Museum's Director, said
at the April 21 press conference, that number will grow in the
coming days in connection with the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide. According to the Director, the launching of the website's
English department has purely strategic significance, as it presents
the official position of the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide.
The website will also have Armenian, Russian, and Turkish versions
in the future.
The Museum's website consists of two parts: the horizontal part
presents information on the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide
and the left perpendicular part contains documents and photographs,
memories of people having experienced the Armenian Genocide, which
are periodically refreshed.
The latest materials of that part are evidence of Jewish and Swedish
eye-witnesses about the Genocide.
Besides, a virtual museum is presented on the website: any person from
any point of the world can visit the website, roam about the memorial
complex and museum in the three-dimensional virtual territory. It was
mentioned that in average 150-300 thousand people visit the Museum
every year and under the circumstance of existence of an electronic
museum their number will grow considerably.