The Georgian National Museum presents internationally significant collections of art and dynamic, changing exhibitions, providing audiences with inspiration and knowledge of the wonderful world of culture, art, science and education. The evidences and proof of the oldest human existence in Eurasia are displayed together with magnificent Medieval Christian art, stunning gold and silver jewelry from the ancient land of Colchis, spectacular modern and contemporary paintings of Georgian artists and masterpieces of the Oriental, Western European and Russian decorative arts.
Opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00. Closed on Mondays and public holidays.
Contacts: +995 322 99 80 22
Website: http://museum.ge/
Address: 3, Rustaveli avenue (non far from metro station - Liberty Square, Tbilisi, Georgia
Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum houses the best-known samples of Georgian artwork. The permanent exhibitions displays artworks from medieval times up to twentieth century, there are also some collections of pre-Christian times. The Museum is distinguished for its Georgian goldsmith pieces dated back to the VIII-XIX Centuries. Also unique are the exhibits of cut-enamel, jewelry and art textiles from VIII-XV cc. The funds of Georgian art are kept samples of medieval architecture fragments, wall painting, mosaic, sculpture, icons, woodcuts. The museum stores the works of famous Georgian artists Niko Pirosmanishvili (146 items), Gigo Gabashvili, Iakob Nikoladze, Lado Gudiashvili, Elene Akvlediani, David Kakabadze and others. The museum also hosts collections of XVIII-XIX c.c. Russian, Western Europe and Oriental (parently Persian) artworks.
The State Silk Museum is one of the oldest museums in Georgia as well as one of the oldest silk museums in the world. Originally it was a part of the sericulture station, founded in Tbilisi in 1887. Nikolay Shavrov, member of the Moscow Agricultural Imperial Society, led the centre.
Nowadays the collections of the museum includes all kinds of exhibits connected with the silk production: collection of mulberry and its products; collections of silkworms, butterflies, cocoons (5.000 breeds and variations); collection of natural and synthetic dyes with samples; collections of models for domestic and industrial silk production; collections of silk products etc.; photo archive; especially interesting is that the museum collections represent all countries with traditions of silk production. Most of the collections of the museum are collected by N. Shavrov and donated by European, Russian and Caucasian colleagues.
The museum was established in 1921, it houses more then 150 thousand items of cultural heritage of the country (from IX-VII c.c. B.C. up to late medieval times). Among them are: Bronze Age and Antiquity period monuments - archaeological discoveries from western Georgia, rare samples Georgian, Roman, Byzantine and Oriental history, everyday life and culture rare objects, collection of oldest epigraphic monuments and Georgian manuscripts - rare charters, ethnographic materials, significant samples of items (goldsmith works, metalwork, ceramics, leather, glassworks, textiles, woodcuts). Permanent exhibitions are displayed in 10 spaces on two floors. In 2005 had finished reconstruction of the "Gold Treasury" hall, and at the moment the permanent display there is done according the modern standards. In 2006 have started rehabilitation of the museum - a full reconstruction of the facilities according the international standard.
Opening hours: Everyday, 10.00 - 18.00
Address: 1, Tbilisi str., Kutaisi
Tel: (+995 431) 24 49 72
David Kakabadze Kutaisi Fine Art Gallery
The museum houses collections of XIX-XX c.c. Georgian artists: paintings (Niko Pirosmani, Gigo Gabashvili, Al. Tsimakuridze, K. Magalashvili, E. Akhvlediani, L. Gudiashvili, K. Sanadze, S.Kobuladze, R.Sturua), drawings, sculptures (B. Avalishvili, G.Nikoladze, Ir.Okropiridze, S.Kipiani, V.Mizandari, Sh. Mikeladze), and applied art samples.
Opening hours: Everyday, except Saturday and Sunday, 10.00 - 18.00
The Batumi Archaeological Museum was created in 1994. It houses finds of various periods from within Adjara. Its principal attraction is the material from Pichvnari excavated since 1998 by the joint archaeological expedition of the Batumi Archaeological Museum and the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford. The academic study and publication of the finds is proceeding apace, thanks to the existence of a conservation laboratory, a photographic studio and archive, and a rich specialized library.
The museum houses paintings of famous Georgian and foreign artists (Niko Pirosmani, D. Kakabadze, L. Gudiashvili, E. art, S. Bakalovich, A. Zommer, N. Ignatov, A. Zankovski, etc.) and drawing works (N. Churgulia, R. Petviashvili, L. Zambakhidze, G.Tseretelietc.) sculpture (E. Pantareli's "Nymph and a Little Faun", G. Ochiauri's "Portrait", etc.), as well as samples of decorative art (ceramics, woodcuts, glasswork, engravings, tapestry).
