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Georgian State Museum:

(also known as the History Museum) -.covers the entire gamut of Georgia's history from the earliest archaeological finds up to around. It houses a collection of icons, frescoes and porcelain, as well as an outstanding display of the "Gold of Colchis" jewellery. 1921. 3 Rustaveli Avenue

Museum of the Soviet Occupation:

This brand new museum extends the exhibit from around 1921 to the present day. 3 Rustaveli Avenue

 Gold Treasury of Georgian State Museum:

One of the most important collections of the Georgian State Museum is the collection of Treasures that contains a big number of unique objects from different historical periods (from the second half of the III millennium B.C. through XIX c. A.D.). The collection features gold and silver artifacts and jewelry from the pre-Christian period from various regions of the country: Ananuri, Tsnori, Vani, Mtskheta, Trialeti Kurgans, Zhinvali, Akhalgori, Martkopi, etc.

museumsArt Museum:

The museum houses a superb Gold Treasury, mostly icons from Georgia's Orthodox tradition. Includes Queen Tamar's cross and some refined cloisonne enamels. Upstairs you find some beautiful carved stonework from churches and 18th- 20th exhibits of modern painting. The top floor is mostly dedicated to Niko Pirosmani. 1 Gudiashvili, near Freedom Square.

MuseumsMuseum of Tbilisi:

Grishashvili Museum of Tbilisi History was founded in 1910 as a City Museum. In 1943 it was renamed to the Tbilisi State Historic-Ethnographical Museum. Currently the museum is named after Georgian poet Ioseb Grishashvili. The museum houses collections that represent Tbilisi history, everyday life and culture (50.000 items). There are collections of archaeology, ethnography, documents, folk and applied art. The museum collection contains unique objects, weapons, various kind of ceramic, china, musical instruments, numismatics, textiles and household accessories starting from the Bronze Age. The museum has the collection of Lado Gudiashvili, Mose Toidze, Elene Akhvlediani paintings as well as masterpieces of other renowned Georgian artists.

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Architectural Park:

The Giorgi Chitaia Open Air Museum of Ethnography  is an open-air museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, displaying the examples of folk architecture and craftwork from various regions of the country. The museum is named after Giorgi Chitaia, a Georgian ethnographer, who founded the museum on April 27, 1966. Since December 30, 2004, it has been administered as part of the Georgian National Museum. The museum is located west to Turtle Lake on a hill overlooking the Vake district, Tbilisi. It is essentially a historic village populated by buildings moved there from all main territorial subdivisions of Georgia. The museum occupies 52 hectares of land and is arranged in eleven zones, displaying around 70 buildings and more than 8,000 items. The exhibition features the traditional darbazi-type and fiat-roofed stone houses from eastern Georgia, openwork wooden houses with gable roofs of straw or boards from western Georgia, watchtowers from the mountainous provinces of Khevsureti, Pshavi, and Svaneti, Megrelian and Imeretian wattle maize storages, Kakhetian wineries (marani), and Kartlian water mills as well as a collection of traditional household articles such as distaffs, knitting-frames, chums, clothes, carpets, pottery and furniture. There are also an early Christian "Sioni" basilica from Tianeti and a 6th-7th century familial burial vault with sarcophagus.

MuseumsStalin Museum:

A completely amazing experience and one of most visitors' favourite stops is a hagiographic account of Georgia's most notorious son. Located in Gori an hour or so from Tbilisi, where his name is still revered, the Museum is still exactly like it was in Soviet times, almost down to the guides memorized speech, the heroic realist art and a smiling Uncle Joe. Truly it is not to be missed.

MuseumsSvaneti Historical-Ethnographical Museum

The museum (established in 1936) houses more than 4.000 items: archaeological objects discovered in Svaneti region, unique samples of engraved and painted icons (of special interest are X-XII c.c. icons), religious objects (IX-XIV c.c.), manuscripts (XI-XIII c.c. New Testaments from Adishi, Labskaldi, Ienashi, Mestia), weapons and armor, iron and cooper items, wooden ethnographic objects, adornments, silverware, textiles, etc.

 

 

 

Tsinandali Alexsandre Chavchavadze House Museum:

Tsinandali's Alexandre Chavchavadze House Museum is located in the palace of the well-known Georgian poet, where one can see objects representing both the poet's life and creative work, and his époque: epistolary and iconography archive, XIX c. editions on various subjects in French, German, English, Polish, Armenian languages, XVIII c. manuscripts, works of photographer Ermakov, samples of painting and lithography, XVII-XIX c.c. Georgian, Russian, French furniture, other household objects, crockery (Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Georgian, Russian), musical instruments; Alexsander Chavchavadze in1830 laid out a decorative park which at the moment occupies 12 hectare land. There are different plants – medical, technical, etc. as well as exotic ones from China, Japan, Mediterranean, America, etc. In 1835 there was built one of the first in Georgia wine cellar, where are kept unique collection of wine from many countries (20.000 bottles).

 

Sighnaghi Historical and Ethnographical Museum:

The museum houses collection (10 000 items) of archaeology (II Millennium B.C. and Late Bronze Age ceramics, adornments, weapons), V-XIX c.c. numismatic collection (Sasanian coins, Cholchian tetri, Queen Tamar and king Lasha-Giorgi period coins, money samples of various countries), ethnographic objects of the first half of the XIX c. (silverware, engraved silver-plated belts, daggers, rifles, pistol, religious objects, icons, collection of the first half of the XIX c. rugs and carpets, works of the XX c. Georgian painters Lado Gudiashvii, Elene Akhvlediani, Ketevan Magalashvili, etc.).