The Armenian Museum of Children's Art was opened in Yerevan on March 1970.
The Museum's exhibition includes drawings by young children who have not yet entered school and by those who are about to graduate. The Museum makes a large contribution to the development of children's artistic taste, using the same criteria as those applied to works by adult artists: fresh Imagery, buoyant colours and firm draughtsmanship. It has become a tradition for the Museum to organize annual exhibitions of children's drawings. It also regularly holds exhibitions of works by those schoolchildren who want to enter art Institutes. The "Children draw" festival is especially popular. Every year on May 20^th many children gather in the square in front of the Opera House in Yerevan and cover the pavement with their beautiful coloured chalk drawings. The Museum is well known in Armenia as well as abroad. It now contains more than 100,000 exhibits.