YEREVAN, MAY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The International Day of Museums will be marked on May 18 in Armenia. Entrance to all museums of Yerevan and regions will be free for visitors on that day. As Anahit Galstian, the head of the Museums and Libraries Department of the RA Ministry of Culture, said in her interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent, at present 110 state and non-state museums, house-museums, and reserve-museums function in Armenia, 60 out of which are under state care and 30 under care of communities. The rest museums work under the patronage of individual citizens or organizations. Though museums have had many obstacles in the recent years, they continued working. Some museums have been closed, but new ones have been opened instead. According to A. Galstian, Armenia has joined three actions on the occasion of the International Day of Museums, the most interesting of which is the Museum Night action announced on May 17. The International Day of Museums has been marked in Armenia since 1978.

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