Parajanov Museum

Parajanov Museum in Yerevan preserves the afterlife of Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990), the Soviet Armenian director whose films and stubborn independence brought both acclaim and prison. Opened in 1991, it gathers his collages, drawings, assemblages, and found-object altars, where folklore, sacred iconography, and sharp satire become a private language of survival. For many Armenians it stands as a quiet civic monument to imagination under constraint.