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  • The second life of puppets in the Armenian Puppet Theatre Museum

    Aysor, Armenia
    Dec 19 2009


    The second life of puppets in the Armenian Puppet Theatre Museum


    In the state puppet theatre after H. Tumanyan will take place the
    ceremony of official opening of the Puppet Museum. As the director of
    the museum Ruben Babayan told the theatre at last succeeded to solve
    the problem of the show-windows, and to present the puppets that were
    in the archive to the society.

    The museum that is inside the theatre will be named after one of the
    founders of the theatre Pavlos Boroyan, who during his life time
    managed to persuade the Culture Ministry of Armenia to open the puppet
    museum in 1975.

    In the world there are few puppet museums and the Armenian Puppet
    Museum is among them already. It will present to the world puppets
    that are of different nationalities.

    There will also be presented the works of the painters of the former
    Soviet Union that in 1982 were presented in the Transcaucasian
    countries.

    The Puppet theatre of Yerevan cooperates with the Armenian Foreign
    Ministry for 6 years already and exchanges puppets with different
    countries. So the theatre has puppets from England, Kazakhstan,
    Bulgaria and other countries. There are also gift-puppets which have
    there unique place within the puppets of the theatre. There are two
    puppets one of which is presented to the theatre by Hasmik Poghosyan,
    the RA Culture Minister and the other one by the wife of the second
    President of Armenia Bella Kocharyan.

    This museum which during the difficult period of its existence has
    been robbed and sold by the pitiless directors of the today has around
    300 puppets in its fund. Those puppets though have been repaired in
    2002 by the support of `Lins' fund, are not being shown completely
    yet.

    One part of the puppets will be shown only for which the first
    show-window has been built around 5 years before by the help of the
    acting Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan. The other 4 show-windows are
    supported by the Culture Ministry and the other 3 by the means of
    Puppet Theatre.
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