Լուսիկ Ագուլեցի

Lusik Aguletsi (Armenian: Լուսիկ Ագուլեցի); born Lusik Zhorzhiki Harutyunyan; was a Nakhichevan-born Armenian painter, ethnographer, and Honored Cultural Worker of the Republic of Armenia.

Aguletsi was famous for being the last Armenian to regularly wear her traditional Armenian dress in Yerevan. Aguletsi was an active ethnographer. She collected weapons, costumes, decorations, and ancient jars.

The house on 79 Muratsan Street in Yerevan, where Lusik Aguletsi lived and worked for about 45 years, was turned into a house-museum on the initiative of family members. In the museum, folk concerts, painting, dance and master classes are organized. Adjacent to the museum is the Aguletsi Art Cafe, which features traditional Armenian cuisine with Agulis dishes.

Lusik Aguletsi house-museum: a traditional place in Yerevan

Armenians have traditional clothing for women called “taraz”. Not a long time ago, there was a woman called Lusik Aguletsi, a famous painter and ethnographer, who used to walk in the streets of Yerevan wearing traditional clothing and jewelry. Since she was almost the only one in modern Armenia to follow “old Armenian fashion”, she became famous in the town.

In the house, you can find traditional interior and decoration attributes. There are separate parts of the house where personal items of Aguletsi are represented, such as different belts, necklaces and other jewelry, clothes,  bags, carpets and rugs, head-wearings and so on.

The majority of the items are hand-made. Besides the above-mentioned ones, there are also hand-made dolls, paintings, and everything that one should have at the house, but the difference is that the ones you see here are traditional and impressive.

ethnographer-ազգարագետ

famous for-հայտնի լինել

weapons-զենքեր

jars-սափոր

jewelry-զարդեր

hand-made-ձեռագործ

impressive-տպավորիչ