Yerevan Museum, Tours In Yerevan, Sergey Paradjanov Museum

Sergei Paradjanov (Sergis Paradjanyan) was one of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema. Paradjanov became an assistant director at the Dovzhenko studios in Kiev, making his directorial debut in 1954. Sergei Paradjanov made two masterpieces in a row in the 1960s: Tini zabutykh predkiv (1964) and Sayat Nova (1968). After directing “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” Paradjonov was established as a phenomenon with no analogy in the art world. He was sentenced and imprisoned twice.

The filmmaker’s health seriously weakened by four years in labor camps and nine months in a Tbilisi prison, Paradjanov died of lung cancer in 1990. After his death, almost 20 years of suppression, his films were finally again allowed to be featured in foreign film festivals.As art director he has created a new sphere in his work. In many collages, drawings, dolls wrought by him are perceived echoes of different cultures of East and West. 

S. Paradjanov Museum was inaugurated only in 1991 and he never lived in his new house-museum. The collection contains more than 600 works of Paradjanov. The exhibition includes over 250 works, documents, sketches of films and photographs. His works prove the uniqueness and originality of the director as a painter.