Yerevan’s cultural scene is on fire this summer. If you happen to be in Armenia, you will be surprised to see that museums here aren’t just about quiet halls and old paintings anymore.
One of them is an exhibition presenting mind-bending illusions, digital art, and giant interactive spaces. Yerevan hosts an immersive Van Gogh and Klimt exhibition where visitors can literally walk into a painting.
But classic art lovers also have a great choice. The newly renovated National Gallery of Armenia has just reopened after renovation and will surprise art lovers with its stunning collection.
Let’s figure out what Yerevan museums and exhibitions tourists can visit in Yerevan in 2025.
Step into Van Gogh’s Painting
If you’re walking down Abovyan Street this summer, you can’t miss the little house. It looks like it’s straight out of a painting. This is a charming art installation that is a teaser for the big event happening right behind it. The Van Gogh & Klimt immersive exhibition in Yerevan is running from June 19 to August 19, 2025.
Hosted by Anima Exhibition, this is not your typical museum experience. It’s a multimedia journey where brushstrokes move and colors swirl. The visitors actually step into the worlds of Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt. Glowing sunflowers, golden patterns, dreamy music, and a 360° visual experience that surrounds you from all sides.
It’s really fun, not only for art lovers but also for those who think museums are “boring.” And don’t forget to snap a photo in the little house outside.
Museum of Illusions
Looking for something totally different to do in Yerevan? Add the Museum of Illusions to your list, especially if you are traveling with kids. It’s fun, weird, and educational. Every exhibit teaches something interesting about how your brain works and how perception can fool us.
The museum is an interactive playground with over 50 exhibits that mess with the visitor’s mind in the best way. Walk through upside-down rooms, pose for photos that defy gravity, and try to figure out how your eyes keep tricking you.
What’s great is that everyone can enjoy it during a family trip. Plus, this is an Instagrammable spot with unreal photo options.
The museum is located in the heart of Yerevan and is super easy to find. The exhibits prove one thing: discovering physics can be super fun.
National Gallery Reopens to Surprise
The newly reopened National Gallery of Armenia is one of Yerevan’s biggest cultural surprises. After a fresh renovation, this iconic museum is back and tries to be modern and better than ever.
Visitors are often surprised to find masterpieces by Aivazovsky, Sarian, Kandinsky, and many others right in the heart of the city. From classical to contemporary, the gallery’s collection is huge and one of the richest in the region. There are more than 20 thousand works of art. The collection features 62 canvases of Ivan Aivazovsky, a prominent marine painter of Armenian background.
Although it’s a classic gallery, it is getting creative and modern with how it shares art, holding live lectures and workshops. For example, one of the unusual things this summer is the “Discover the Gallery” summer school for kids. They get to paint on canvas, work with clay, make mosaics, and create art inside the gallery, just steps from world-famous pieces.
History Museum of Armenia
The History Museum of Armenia shares the same building with the National Gallery. With over 400,000 artifacts, the museums take visitors from prehistoric caves to modern-day medieval Armenia.
Ancient coins from the 5th century BC, jaw-dropping jewelry, handmade instruments, vessels, and relics from the Broze Age and Early Iron Age.
The museum recently got a makeover. Now, many exhibits come with interactive tablets that show how the instruments were used, or how those massive excavations were done.
One of the highlights is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe, one of the oldest ever found. There is also a replica you can actually try on and feel like yourself in a shoe that was made more than 5,000 years ago.
Parajanov Museum
The Parajanov Museum is something totally different from a traditional museum. It’s like a modern art space, a mixture of a personal diary and a dream world.
Dedicated to legendary filmmaker and artist Sergei Parajanov, this spot is full of chaos and creativity. Tourists won’t find quiet rows of paintings here. Instead, expect rooms packed with handmade collages, installations, weird objects, and brilliant chaos made or inspired by Parajanov.
Every corner has a story, every wall shows something unexpected. From personal letters and film props to surreal art made, dolls, and photos.
This space resembles a creative house party than a museum. Even if the visitors have never seen his films, they will come out inspired. Most importantly, this museum proves that art doesn’t have to be quiet or polished to blow your mind.
