Armenian Culture Minister intends to stimulate domestic film industry

ArmInfo. In 2016, 41 cultural projects were implemented in Armenia, including in the international format, Armenian Minister of Culture Armen Amiryan announced at the 

budget hearings in the Armenian Parliament. 

According to the Minister, in 2016, 712,383 people visited museums of 

Armenia. At the same time, he stressed that compared with the same 

period of 2016, this year there is an increase in visits to museums 

by 20-30%. Minister predicted that by the end of the tourist season 

this figure could reach 45%.

According to Amiryan, in the reporting year, 971 museum exhibits were 

restored. Another 2303 exhibits are subject to recovery. "The museum 

funds were enriched by 9,836 exhibits as a result of excavations and 

donations," he said, adding that many exhibits appeared in the funds, 

and it became necessary to create new museums.

He also informed that in 2016 its doors after repair again opened 

house-museum of Martiros Saryan. Repair work is carried out in the 

museums of Derenik Demerchyan, in Goris, in the house museum of Sero 

Khanzadyan, in Dsekh in the house museum of Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Speaking about the domestic film industry, Minister said that it is 

planned to open a film school with a training period of 6 months and 

invite representatives of international film companies, for example, 

experts from New York Film Academy. "Creating the institute of 

cinema, we will try to solve these problems, and later, our experts 

will be able to shoot 8-10 films," the minister said.

To stimulate domestic film industry, Amiryan also suggests creating a 

national cinema network that will include 30-40 cinemas, which will 

provide 400 million views of one film. It is also planned to give 

free passes to schools for the introduction of the younger generation 

to the cinema art.