Hovhannes Tumanyan museum had 9 500 visitors during the seven months of this year

YEREVAN, AUGUST 18, ARMENPRESS: Hovhannes Tumanyan museum had 9 500 visitors during the seven months of this year against the 8 400 of the same span of the past year. Director of the museum Narine Tukhikyan said the majority of the visitors are being registered during the academic year; the main visitors are schoolchildren.

During the summer months diaspora Armenians, foreigners mainly from the USA, Canada, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine are visiting the museum. The museum director said the smallest number of visitors is being registered in the winter months.

“The 2009 was a jubilee year and the number of visitors during that period cannot be used as a standard. In the first half of the past year we had 15 000 visitors.”