The Armenian Museum houses over 200 Armenian rugs, but more than ten times that number of books about rugs! In this week’s video Collections Curator Gary Lind-Sinanian discusses one of these books that itself is a piece of history - it is the first book written about rugs by art historian Julius Lessing. Watch this video to learn about our collection and the significance of this book in particular.
Rug Book Collection
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