Ancient Armenia Exhibition opens at Pushkin Museum of Moscow

The exhibition ‘The Kingdom of Urartu. The heritage of ancient Armenia. Urashtu—Harminuya—Armina’ opens at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on October 31.

“We are opening an exhibition dedicated to the Kingdom of Urartu. This project has been prepared jointly with several museums, including the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Museum of Armenia, and others,” said Elizaveta Likhacheva, Head of the Pushkin Museum.

The exhibition consists of four sections, three of which are devoted to different stages of the history and culture of this region, from the pre-Urartian tradition of the ancient tribes of the Armenian Highlands (II-I millennia BC) to the formation of the ancient Armenian art of the post-Urartian period (VI-IV centuries BC). The main part of the exhibition is the heritage of the Kingdom of Urartu of the IX-VII centuries, one of the ancient eastern main states of the I millennium BC.

For the first time, the exhibition will feature artifacts from the earliest excavations carried out during Imperial Russia, as well as monuments discovered by Armenian archaeologists during the excavations of the 2010s. The last section of the exhibition is devoted to the study of Urartu culture at the Pushkin Museum.

The exhibition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the orientalist Svetlana Khodzhash.