Lectures, exhibitions, loans, and publications from the museum's recent history.
On June 12, 2019, the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum and Richard Manoogian, Chairman of the Board, Armenian Apostolic Society, hosted a special event at the St. John Armenian Church Cultural Hall - featuring Dr. Helen Evans, curator of the Armenia! exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This article provides highlights from the program.
Three artifacts from the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum will be on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its Armenia! exhibit — on view from Saturday, September 22, 2018 to January 13, 2019. There will be 140 objects on view for the first time in the United States.
As part of its 25th anniversary, the Manoogian Museum hosted a gala event surrounding the opening of "Celebrating and Preserving Our Cultures," an exhibit featuring Jewish and Armenian artifacts from the James & Ana Melikian Collection of Scottsdale, Arizona. The event was held from October 26, 2017 through January 15, 2018.
Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM, St. John Armenian Church
The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Michigan holds the largest and most representative gathering of Armenian art and artifacts outside Armenia, including illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, rugs and carpets, sacred vessels and vestments, textiles and embroidery, ceramics, metalwork, paintings, coins, and objects from the ancient kingdom of Urartu. A Legacy of Armenian Treasures features more than 160 of the museum's most vital and beautiful pieces, each reproduced in full color and accompanied by a detailed entry. Essays by nine scholars of Armenian art and artifacts shed light not only on the artistic significance of these objects but on their cultural context as well.
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