The Goris Local Lore Museum

This small museum, located in the center of the town close to the main square and municipal buildings, is easy to miss, but offers a fascinating collection of objects dating from the Early Bronze Age to the present, as well as special materials from the Soviet times. Goris was a thriving center of Syunik and museum collections include beautifully designed weapons, ornaments, buttons, belt pieces, and jewelry that suggest a long history of cultural activity. Two particularly special objects—a five-faced idol dating to the 2nd millennium BCE and a bronze lion from the 7th century BCE, symbolic of Urartian kings—should not be missed.