A small but extraordinary museum devoted to the Armenian filmmaker and visual artist Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990), whose films The Colour of Pomegranates and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors changed Soviet cinema. The house was meant to be his — he never lived to move in — and contains his collages, assemblages, hats, drawings, set designs, and the playful little objects he made obsessively from whatever was to hand: lace, dried flowers, broken porcelain, mirrors.
It is one of those museums where the artist's personality fills every room. The setting in the small Dzoragyugh village just below the gorge of the Hrazdan River is itself worth the walk. Closed Mondays.