YEREVAN. - New stone and wood sculptures will appear round Hovhannes Tumanyan House-Museum in Yerevan, Armenian Culture Minister Armen Amiryan said in the parliament on Monday, speaking at the debate on the report of the 2016 State Budget performance.

A symposium of young sculptors was held in Dsegh village of Armenia’s Lori province, where the Armenian writer was born. Fifteen 2-meter stones will be brought to the house-museum. The sculptors will turn them into the heroes of Tumanyan’s fairy tales and poems, who will welcome the guests and show them the way to the house-museum.

“There were trees round it, which were dozens of years old. They were old and could fall down from any gust of wind. We sawed them down and planted new ones instead. The sculptors received new fabricating material for the creations inspired by Tumanyan,” the minister said.