{"id":1215,"date":"2015-12-25T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/?page_id=1215"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:51:08","slug":"permanent-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/museum-2\/permanent-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"PERMANENT EXHIBITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The museum\u2019s permanent exhibition spans over eight thematic halls, which present the path of Komitas\u2019s life, along with his compositional, musicological, ethnographic and performance activities. The music of the composer reverberates throughout all the exhibition halls. The curator of the permanent exhibition is Vardan Karapetyan and the designer is Alberto Torsello.<\/div>\n<div>1st hall: Chronology<\/div>\n<div>2nd hall: Komitas and his contemporaries<\/div>\n<div>3rd hall: Komitas and His Contemporaries<\/div>\n<div>4th hall: Komitas\u2019s Ethnographic Activity<\/div>\n<div>5th hall: The Music of Komitas<\/div>\n<div>6th hall: Komitas and Sacred Music<\/div>\n<div>7th hall: Komitas\u2019s Performances<\/div>\n<div>8th hall: After Komitas<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The project was implemented by the ICOM (<span lang=\"FR\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">International Council of Museums<\/span><\/span>) National Committee of Armenia. Various museum objects were donated from collections kept at the <i>Yeghishe Charents<\/i> Museum of Literature and Art, the National Gallery of Armenia and the National Library of Armenia, all of which are now included in the permanent exhibition. The Komitas Museum-Institute\u2019s collection is regularly updated with new samples from various parts of the world. The first donation was made by His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, on the museum\u2019s opening day.\u00a0 His Holiness gifted Komitas\u2019s inkstand to the Museum-Institute, which the composer received after his concert in Baku in 1908. The following is engraved on the inkstand: &#8220;Dedicated to Father Komitas Vardapet \u2013 a prominent musicologist who gives spirit to Armenian folk songs.\u201d It was gifted by his admiring fans.<\/div>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1215 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/kqqpwrtimaovnsgjukvn.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tangaran-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9474\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9474'>\n\t\t\t\t111\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/zlnsxpexvsnnhznckrpm.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9472\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9472'>\n\t\t\t\t222\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yeapiylnvipynvjqpqox.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-9470\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-9470'>\n\t\t\t\t333\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The museum\u2019s permanent exhibition spans over eight thematic halls, which present the path of Komitas\u2019s life, along with his compositional, musicological, ethnographic and performance activities. 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The curator of the permanent exhibition is Vardan Karapetyan and the designer is Alberto Torsello. 1st hall: Chronology 2nd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3743,"parent":161,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-permanent.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1215","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4632,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1215\/revisions\/4632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/komitasmuseum.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}