YEREVAN, DECEMBER 23, ARMENPRESS. The Yeghishe Charents House-Museum will have an updated site in 2014. In a conversation with “Armenpress” the Director of the Yeghishe Charents House-Museum Lilit Hakobyan stated that the official website of the museum charents.am will be enriched with new features. “Our website has not been updated for several years. We intend to introduce the new design of the website in 2014,” Lilit Hakobyan noted. The digitalization of the museum’s samples will be continued in 2014 as well.

Yeghishe Charents Memorial Museum is in Mashtots Avenue 17, in the centre of Yerevan. The great poet of the twentieth century lived in that house from 1935 to 1937.

On February 8,1964 the Counsil of Ministers of Armenia decreed that the flat should be turned into Charents Memorial Museum. On January 10, 1975 the Museum opened its doors to public

In 1987 on the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of the poet, s birth the flat underwent some changes. By the decision of the government of Armenia the area of the Museum was enlarged.

Now the Museum occupies 626.3 m2 area.

The main exhibition occupies the three halls of the Museum.

Yeghishe Charents Memorial Museum is a research centre studying the poet,s life, his literary, cultural and social-political activities.

Relics of the poet, his  personal belongings, manuscripts,  documents, books, photos, other  specimens, which bear evidence in support of Charents, great talent for not only poetry writing but also  translating and publishing/ are exhibited in the Museum.

The Museum also holds exhibitions, literary-musical gatherings, lectures, concerts, meetings,  presentations and days of poetry reading.

 Yeghishe Charents Memorial Museum is a sacred place for all Armenians.