Armenia’s Ministry of Culture shut down an exhibit entitled ECLIPSE
at the Tumanyan House Museum in Yerevan stating that it was
‘politicized’ and would need to be re-curated. The exhibit highlighted
the severity of the repressions of the Stalin era in the 1930s known as
the Great Purge. It was an era of extreme persecution, oppression and
terror. Thousands of Armenians, including writers, artists, clergymen,
intellectuals and many others were arrested, exiled and many were
killed. Hovhannes Tumanyan, one of Armenia’s most revered writers lost
three of his sons to Stalin’s oppression.
It remains unclear what the real motivations of the Culture Ministry
were for shutting down the exhibit that was to run until late autumn.
Since the public no longer has the opportunity to physically go and see
the exhibit, Narine Tukhikyan, the director of the Tumanyan House
Museum, provided EVN Report with all the curated artefacts so that it
could live on virtually.
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