Kon-Tiki museum site about Thor Heyerdahl Jr's visit to Armenia
Thor Heyerdahl 100 years anniversary has also reached the oldest country in the world, Armenia, reads the article published on the site of Kon-Tiki Museum.
According to the article, Thor Heyerdahl Jr and his wife Grethe Heyerdahl and marketing manager Halfdan Tangen jr from The Kon-Tiki Museum was invited to Yerevan in Armenia from 23 - 28 October for TV interviews, lectures and exhibition. There was meeting with the minister of culture Hasmik Poghosyan at her office and meeting with the Nansen Institute as well.
Thor Heyerdahl Jr is on a visit to Armenia on the initiative of the Armenian Embassy in Denmark and Norway, with the assistance of the Ministry of Culture and at the invitation of the charity fund "Vahagn and Hasmik Hovnanians.