Real Artsakh

The Museum of Kashatagh, Berdzor

The museum displayed materials about the victims of the pogroms of Armenians in different towns of Azerbaijan, as well as about the deportations of Armenians from Azerbaijan that followed the peaceful demonstration in Stepanakert and Yerevan.

The Berdzor Museum also doubled as an art gallery displaying paintings and sculpture both by local artists and from guests from other parts of Armenia, or on rare occasions, from other European countries. The exhibition of the works by Jean Jansem, the famous French artist, was a landmark in the gallery’s activities.

The museum stopped functioning after the 2020 war, when Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey and jihadist mercenaries, attacked Artsakh and occupied large parts of it. In August of 2022, Berdzor (Lachin) was transferred to Azerbaijani control, as stipulated by the 2020 November 9 trilateral declaration that ended the war.

*A ritual vessel from the end of the 2nd millennium-beginning of the 1st millennium BC, discovered in 1998.*

A ritual vessel from the end of the 2nd millennium-beginning of the 1st millennium BC, discovered in 1998.	A large vessel found at Aghavno village of the Kashatagh region, not far from Berdzor, dating back to the 1st millennium BC.
		These types of vessels, made of clay and called khnotsi, were used up to the middle of the 20th century to separate butter from milk by manually shaking it while it was suspended on ropes.