On January 2013, the opening ceremony titled “Time to collect stones” will take place in the History of Armenia Museum.
As reported, currently already 51 cross-stones have been brought from regions to Yerevan in order to show them in the Museum.A Specialist on monuments, Samvel Karapetyan, condemns the decision and is dissatisfied with it.
According to Karapetyan, the cross-stones should stay in the regions so the tourists can also visit the regions and see the masterpieces there.
Apres Zohrabyan, director of “Bnatachar” agrees with Karapetyan and said that the government must pay attention to the history of the country.
According to Zohrabyan, nowadays the tourists are able to visit the regions.
Zohrabyan said that it is wrong to collect all the cross-stones in a place, he even added with the irony the following statement: “Let’s bring all the Armenian 30.000 cross-stones to a Yerevan”.
However, Anelka Grigoryan, director of History of Armenia Museum, stressed that everything is done in order to keep the cross-stones which are “thrown” away.
Grigoryan also stressed that everything is done from the budget of the museum and added that the government doesn’t support them in that action.
