Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum is among World’s 10 Most Important Memorial Museums

YEREVAN, AUGUST 20, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Genocide Institute-Museum is among the World’s 10 Most Important Memorial Museums formed by The Cultural Trip site.Armenpress reports that referred to as The Great Crime (Medz Yeghern) inArmenia, the Armenian Genocide was arguably the greatest tragedy ever to strike the Armenian nation.The Ottoman government’s symbolic execution of 250 high-ranking Armenian leaders and intellectuals in 1915 was only the beginning of a massacre that would consume one million lives, and see women and children driven out to the Eastern deserts on death marches, while most able-bodied men were put to forced labour.TheArmenian Genocide Museumin Yerevan is a gripping walk through history, from the pre-genocide era to heart-wrenching interviews, eyewitness reports and films that speak of the intense anguish of the genocide survivors.The museum is currently undergoing renovation, but will reopen in spring 2015.