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November 28, 2007
AGBU Donates Computers to Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia
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Director of the AGBU Armenian Representation Ashot Ghazarian (left) and Armenian Genocide Museum Director Hayk Demoyan and during the November 22 press conference to announce AGBU's donation to the world-renowned Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia.
Watch a Video Report of AGBU's donation to the Armenian Genocide Museum HERE (02:13)
In a ceremony that took place on November 22, 2007 at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, AGBU donated computer equipment, including desktops, printers and scanners, worth approximately $10,000 (USD) to the Yerevan-based museum. The Genocide Museum, which is a leading center of Armenian Genocide research, will use the donation to digitize its extensive documentation on the Armenian Holocaust, mount professional displays and exhibitions of documentary materials, and place documents on the museum's four-month-old English-language website: www.genocide-museum.am.
Museum Director Hayk Demoyan commented at the ceremony, "The museum was facing a huge problem. We had to digitalize the archives, otherwise we risk losing them." He was thankful of AGBU's donation and he said that the modern equipment was essential to carrying out the mission of the Genocide Museum, which is to document one of the 20th century's greatest crimes against humanity.
Director of the AGBU Armenian Representation Ashot Ghazarian remarked, "I am glad AGBU could contribute to a mission of such importance." He also added that the organization is eager to assist the museum in the realization of various future projects.
Demoyan pointed out that, every year, new sources of information about the Armenian Genocide surface. He also explained that there are so many undiscovered and unexamined archives that await careful examination and which will illuminate some of the lesser known aspects of the catastrophe. He is planning to send museum employees to Europe, Russia and the Middle East, with a promise to organize a display of all the materials culled from these new sources. Furthermore, in the coming months, the museum is planning to publish a 10-volume monograph, which will include new translations of rare documentary materials.
The director pointed out that the number of visitors to the Armenian Genocide Institute's English-only website is doubling every month, and the site has plans to expand into a multilingual site, which will welcome Armenian, French, Russian and Turkish-language users.
AGBU's recent donation is the latest in a series of contributions that began with the founding of the museum in 1995.
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