Lebanon is home to the world’s only museum of Armenian Genocide orphans

The museum houses items, documents, photographs and orphan lists dedicated to the lives of orphans. In the back of the courtyard is a memorial sculpture of Maria Jacobsen and a tombstone with the inscription “Mother of Armenian Orphans.” On the other side are a series of sculptures depicting Armenian orphans in rags. The area, located about 30 kilometers from Beirut, was founded in 1920 by the Near East Relief Committee as a shelter for Armenian orphans.