A museum of social life and domestic architecture housed in a beautifully preserved 19th-century merchant's house in the Kumayri historic district. The museum shows what life looked like for a prosperous Armenian family in Russian-era Alexandrapol — the decorative ironwork, the tiled stoves, the layers of carpets, the heavy furniture that Gyumri's craftsmen were famous for producing.
The Kumayri district itself, in which the museum sits, is one of the most interesting parts of the city to walk through: a dense neighbourhood of low tufa buildings, cobblestone lanes, and ironwork balconies, much of which survived 1988 because it was built to 19th-century standards rather than Soviet ones. The museum is a good starting point for exploring the area on foot.