About 120,000 Armenians in Artsakh are deprived of the right to visit their museums due to violent deportation

May 18 is International Museum Day, and the title of the day, "the future of museums in the rapidly changing communities."

"Today, when more than 160 countries around the world marked the International Museum Day, the Museum of the Artsakh Republic is alienated from its own people with thousands of values ​​and exhibits.

Due to violence, about 120,000 Armenians are deprived of the right to visit their museums, communicate with their best values ​​and educate generations with them.

The six-week war of the 2020s and the complete Armenian crit of Artsakh 2023 in the territory of the Artsakh Republic was operating about three-ten-year-old museums and exhibition halls.

Shushi, as the cultural center of Artsakh, was full of a large museum fund. "Shushi Fine Arts Museum", "Shushi Museum of Geology", "Private Museum of the Shushi Museum", "Armenian Museum of the Armenian Museum", the Narekatsi Union, the Museum of the Art Center, the Hero of the Artsakh Hero, Fighter-Commander Vardan Stepanyan (Dalman) of the Artsakh Museum of the Artsakh Museum of the Shushi. Home-Museum.

One of the museums of important importance was the Artsakh State Geological Museum in Stepanakert, the Union of Relatives of the Freedom Fighters, the "Museum of the missing freedom fighters".

The Tigranakert Historical-Archaeological Reserve Museum, the "Melon Menel" of the "Line Muskin" were key importance.

The Artur Mkrtchyan Geological Museum was located in Hadrut, and in the village of Tumi, its branch "Tan Stepanyan Museum". The Museum of Marshal of the USSR Aviation Marshal Armenak Khanperyants (Khudyakov) was located in the village of Mets Tagher of Hadrut.

The museum of Askeran, Martuni, Kashatagh, Karvachar Historical and Museum, the Martakert Hall of Berdashen, Karvachar, was rich in Valuished collections, Martakert Hall in Tsaghkashat village of Askeran region Nikol Duman Museum, etc.

It should be noted that a number of museums of Artsakh, up to 2020, were celebrated at the "Museum Night" celebration, opening their doors to the public, and on May 18, organized by cultural and educational events.

2020 During the Azerbaijani aggression, the Shushi Museums stopped operating on the Shushi's decline, and the sculptures of the sculptural park have disappeared. The State Museum of Geology after Grigory Gabrielyants, the Azeri Military Library, was killed, Arthur Mkrtchyan's museum was detonated, the house-museum of Armenak Khhanperyants (Khudyakov) is destroyed. The Nagorno-Karabakh Refugee Human Rights Union has strongly condemn the destruction and looting of museum samples belonging to the people of Artsakh. We urge the international community to guarantee the right of forcibly displaced Artsakh Armenians and to protect their cultural centers with the fundamental right to communicate with the 27th and UN High Commissioner for the Universal Declaration of the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh.