What is National Gallery of Armenia?
'''National Gallery of Armenia''' at [[Yerevan]], [[Armenia]]. The old Armenian subdivision owns works of famous [[Armenia]]n artists of early medieval and succeeding periods. Today its collection is over 19,000 specimens shown in the [[Russia]]n, [[Armenia]]n and West-[[Europe]]an divisions of paintings, sculptures, graphic and applied arts. The National Art Gallery of [[Armenia]] has a lot of branches in [[Yerevan]] and other towns of the republic. The memorial-houses of the artist Hakop Kojoyan and the sculptor Ara Sarkissian are in the capital. They exhibit the best works of the two far-famed men of arts. National Gallery of Armenia is one of the biggest museums of the Republic. NGA was founded in 1921 as an art section of the State museum. The foundation of the section has been consisted of dozens of works purchased from Armenian painters’ exhibition organized in August 1921. A decisive factor in the formation of the art section was the assignation of the rich collection of The Armenian [[Palace]] of Culture / The former Lazarian Gymnasium/ and the donations of Armenian artists to it. Already in 1925 there were exposed about 400 works of Armenian, Russian and European masters in the six halls of the art section. In 1935 the art section was changed into [[Art museum|Art Museum]], in 1947 it was called State Museum of Armenia and from 1991 it was renamed as National Gallery of Armenia. In 1978 a new 8 storey building was put into exploitation. Now the collection of the NGA includes about 26.000 museum exhibits and the building has 56 exposition halls in which there are presented the museums treasures by temporary and permanent exhibitions. Armenian art presents the considerable part of the exposition. It begins with ancient and Medieval Art: Urartu frescoes, with valuable documental copies of Garni temple’s mosaics and Medieval wall-paintings and miniatures, also Clerical paintings of XVII-XIX centuries, silver book-covers of manuscripts, crosses, etc. The exposition is continued by the works of Armenian