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THE YEREVAN PLANETARIUM HAS BEEN ROBBED AND THE BUILDING HAS BEEN SOLD, AREG MIKAYELYAN SAYS
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/22/122532/
October 22, 2012 16:50
During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Areg Mikayelyan, a prominent
scientist of the Byurakan Observatory and a co-chairman of the
Armenian Astronomical Society, paid attention to the initiative
to build a planetarium in Artsakh, in which Garik Israyelyan, a
professor of the European Astrophysical Scientific Center, and Michele
Movsesyan, a Diaspora architect, were engaged. Mikayelyan asserted
that planetariums played an important role in education. "They are
special devices, very complex systems comprised of projectors. The
price of an ordinary planetarium starts from half a million dollars.
Now light, inflatable planetariums for a few people are produced,"
the scientist explained.
He also stated with regret that we didn't have a planetarium in
Yerevan, "There was one in Komitas Park in the 1980s, but it has
been destroyed, robbed after Armenia became independent and even the
building has been sold."
Gohar HAKOBYAN
http://www.aravot.am/en/2012/10/22/122532/
October 22, 2012 16:50
During a conversation with www.aravot.am, Areg Mikayelyan, a prominent
scientist of the Byurakan Observatory and a co-chairman of the
Armenian Astronomical Society, paid attention to the initiative
to build a planetarium in Artsakh, in which Garik Israyelyan, a
professor of the European Astrophysical Scientific Center, and Michele
Movsesyan, a Diaspora architect, were engaged. Mikayelyan asserted
that planetariums played an important role in education. "They are
special devices, very complex systems comprised of projectors. The
price of an ordinary planetarium starts from half a million dollars.
Now light, inflatable planetariums for a few people are produced,"
the scientist explained.
He also stated with regret that we didn't have a planetarium in
Yerevan, "There was one in Komitas Park in the 1980s, but it has
been destroyed, robbed after Armenia became independent and even the
building has been sold."
Gohar HAKOBYAN