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The Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California is an upcoming museum in Glendale, California, United States, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Armenian Americans. The museum, which is expected to open in the summer of 2024, intends to explore Armenian history along with Armenian American contemporary culture.
The museum averages 14 different exhibits annually. As a repository for heirlooms, the collections now represent a major resource for Armenian studies and for preservation and illustration of Armenian heritage. AMA is the only independent Armenian museum in the diaspora, funded largely through contributions of individual supporters.
Hagop Bogigian - Opened oriental carpet store on Harvard Square in the 1870s, and is known as the "first Armenian American millionaire"; Peter Koutoujian - is an American politician who is the current Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The city of Glendale, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, is widely thought to be the center of Armenian American life (although many Armenians live in the aptly named "Little Armenia" neighborhood of Los Angeles [3]). The Armenian American community is the most politically influential community of the Armenian diaspora. [4]
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Instead of a museum honoring Fresno’s Armenian heritage, the three remaining homes were sold for an affordable housing project. Penstar project manager Scott Anderson confirmed receiving Der ...