ACADEMIA gallery-shop is located in central Yerevan, not far from the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia.
For more than a decade, many artists, collectors of paintings, museums and others order the design and frames for paintings in this gallery-shop, being confident that they will receive a quality product and service due time.
Since 2005, the ACADEMIA gallery-shop offers various products and services to customers, including: decor and framing of paintings, passepartout, and other items.
Décor of paintings is extremely important -- the designer must understand the essence of the picture, therefore professionalism is a must in this case. Mr. Nerses Melikyan, the founder and CEO of the ACADEMIA gallery-shop, is an artist-designer, who graduated from the Department of Design of the Artistic - Theatrical Institute of Yerevan in 1980. Mr. Nerses Melikyan is a member of the Artists Union of Armenia since 1988.
Most of the Armenia’s leading museums collaborate with the ACADEMIA gallery-shop. They order décor and framing of their pictures here for long time. Among such museums are:
- Cafesjian Museum of Art
- Saryan Museum
- Yervand Kochar Museum
- Komitas Museum
- Parajanov Museum
- National Art Gallery of Armenia
- Other museums and galleries
The paintings of many famous artists were decorated and framed in the ACADEMIA gallery-shop, such as:
- Martiros Saryan
- Arshile Gorky
- Hovhannes Aivazovsky
- Yervand Kochar
- Vardges Sureniants
- Hakob Kojoyan
- Parajanov
- Minas
- Vruyr
- Gayane
In addition - a huge number of artists, collectors and various other people use the goods and services of the Academy.
Wooden frames of paintings are mainly imported from Italy. For the picture frames different types of glasses are used, including: museum glass, not shiny and ordinary glass, and the passepartout is used exclusively not acid.
