” Service for the protection of historical environment and cultural museum-reservations” NSCO`s works done in 2016 was presented to the Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan.
NSCO has conducted its activities in four main areas: conservation, study, use and raising awareness. With efforts of the staff of regional services, reserves and museum-reservations organized preservation of 19000 state-owned and not subject to alienation of immovable monuments. “I have to say that there are some problems” in his speech said the Acting Director of the Department Seyran Arakelyan and added that today there are 306. 000 museum items in funds of organization.
For organization of above-mentioned functions NSCO is cooperating with local authorities and law enforcement agencies. ” Protection service” NSCO has 13 cases in 2016 filed based on the calls, a part of the investigation is over, there are terminated works, also in the criminal investigation process.
Referring to monuments protection zones, he added that the organization every year is providing 3 certificates of protection zone without protection contract / order /. He said the issue was contested in 1890, in 330 cases it is a serious problem in terms of prevention and detection of possible violations of the monument area. They also touched upon the emerging and most endangered monuments.
Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan asked about “Metsamor” historical branch “Zorats Qarer» Historical and Cultural Reserve,” Garni “and” Zvartnots “historical-cultural reserve museums activities,” GOSHAVANK “historical and cultural” reserve, Dilijan “National Architecture Museum Reservation`s” future fate.
The Minister was reported that “Metsamor” historical museum has a rich exhibition, however, there is a problem of improvement of inter-community road. As for the “Dilijan” reserve-museum of folk architecture, some of the samples taken and stored in “Zvartnots” Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve. According to “Goshavank” marked that NSCO in 2016 bought 250 square meters of land for the construction of the museum building. Construction of the Department’s budget this year envisages 10 million AMD.
Summing up the discussion, Minister of Culture commissioned to design offer and represent integrated value of the ticket for foreign visitors. Attaching importance to the popularization of the monuments, the minister spoke of the need for infrastructure development. The Minister of Culture in NCSO instead of expected 5-6{e8056ceb10a71b17f41188de28b79f10f191c155dfa2f2f07261eed1f2f6e59f} growth in actual earnings 40{e8056ceb10a71b17f41188de28b79f10f191c155dfa2f2f07261eed1f2f6e59f} increase and of 50{e8056ceb10a71b17f41188de28b79f10f191c155dfa2f2f07261eed1f2f6e59f} increase in the number of tourists.
