BUENOS AIRES (Estacao Armenia) — Buenos Aires has given a green light to the construction of an Armenian Genocide museum in the city.
The Buenos Aires legislature voted 54 to 2 last week to approve at second reading a bill that enables the Memory Foundation of the Armenian Genocide to build a Museum of Armenian Memory, History and Culture.
The property is located on Gurruchaga Street, close to most of the institutions of the Armenian community that are located in the neighborhood of Palermo.
The foundation received the building for a period of 30 years with the permission to make renovations.
The museum will include ” the contribution of the Armenians to the social construction of Argentina. Thus, an archive of the history of the Armenian presence in Argentina will also be created.”
A library and archive of Armenian genocide is also expected to be created.
