State Museum of Wood-Carving

The Woodcarving Museum was founded in 1977 owing to the efforts of Albert Stepanyan, the minister of wood-industry, and the painter Vanik Sharambeyan whose collection of pottery, carpet, metal, ladle and spoon samples, gathered for many years, became the basis of the museum.
The exhibition consists of three parts where alongside with the works made of different types of wood there exist other works like carpets, woman-shaped Armenian salt-cellars and various other articles used in the Armenian lifestyle. The museum is unique in its specialization, and many exhibits are exceptional and cannot be found in other museums. Among them there are wooden shuttles for lace-making, ornaments, sticks for checking the dough which are master pieces of minor plastics. Here one can see a big collection of various stamps for gata, magic amulets which were considere to be evil-hindering and were meant for protection of the hear and family.