The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute is listed by Russian edition of Forbes among the nine must-see museums dedicated to human tragedies and catastrophes.

The list also includes 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York, the Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem, Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and others.

The Museum was opened on 1995 on the eightieth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. 

The Museum structure, planned by architects S. Kalashian, A. Tarkhanyan and sculptor F. Araqelyan, has a unique design. The  Museum received many visitors including schoolchildren, college students and an unprecedented number of tourists both local and abroad. rmenia has made visiting the Armenian Genocide Museum part of the official State protocol and many foreign official delegations have already visited the Museum.