Georgian Museum of Fine Arts: History and Collections

In the capital of sunny Georgia, the Georgian Museum of Fine Arts is located in the center of Tbilisi, you can find it on Rustaveli Street near Freedom Square. This is a great place for cultural education of people of any age, you can combine a pleasant walk around the square with admiring the paintings painted by the geniuses of fine art. A wide variety of genres, motifs and epochs will satisfy even the most picky lovers of works of art, because there is something to see in Georgia.

The gallery exhibits a rare private collection of works that have been collected and stored for years by the founders of the Fine Museum: Gia Jokhtaberidze and Manana Shevardnadze. The collection includes more than 3,500 works by over 100 Georgian artists.

The Museum of Fine Arts opened its doors to visitors for the first time in early October 2018. The entire exhibition is located in 31 halls.

Here you can get acquainted with the works of Georgian masters of fine art. The paintings of Georgian artists are divided by the periods of their writing, here you can see works from 1945 to the present day. Thanks to the painstaking work of the artists, we can fully feel the feelings that the master put into writing his painting. This is a great way to get acquainted not only with the talents of the sunny country, but also to better understand its mentality, traditions and peculiarities.

In addition to permanent exhibitions, seminars, lectures and educational programs are held on the territory of the gallery, for such types of events there is a conference hall with a capacity of more than one hundred seats.

The Museum of Fine Arts also provides an opportunity for contemporary artists to exhibit their works in the exhibition hall of temporary exhibitions.

The sights of Georgia are often decorated with sculptures and frescoes. At the entrance to the building, an eagle sculpture is visible on its main facade. This is not just another element of decor, its image was inspired by ancient finds. The sculpture was inspired by the eagles found at Vani — one of the western regions of Georgia. These finds date from the 9th–1st centuries BC. Today, proud birds have become not only an ornament, but also a full-fledged symbol of the entire museum, because when something ancient manifests itself in its new, unexpected appearance, is it a dim symbol of modern art.

The idea of the museum is to develop and popularize contemporary art of Georgia, develop the rich potential of local artists and give them a chance to become internationally. The combination of native Georgian national ornaments, traditional plots and new styles and techniques of writing allows you to get a unique, completely new stylistic branch of art painting.

Exhibitions, scientific research, educational events are held on the basis of the museum, all the possibilities of the museum are fully realized for the sake of one goal — the cultural development of a new generation, so that people have the opportunity to look at the most beautiful places of Georgia depicted by the brush of young talents of such a multifaceted country from another, unexplored side.

To relax visitors between trips to the exhibition halls, the museum has equipped a comfortable cafeteria "Museum Cafe", where they brew excellent coffee and bake fragrant pastries. In addition to the cafeteria, visitors can relax in the new—format recreation area - the Arthouse complex. There are both restaurants and cafeterias, as well as completely unexpected things, such as a fitness room, a swimming pool, of course, anyone can visit the complex, it is not necessary to purchase a ticket to the museum, this is the whole charm of the new complex, in addition to its unusual architecture. If you came to the museum by private car, then parking spaces have already been thought out here, underground parking for more than one hundred and fifty places is organized under the museum.

And, of course, here you can find not only souvenir shops, but also full—fledged boutiques with things from Georgian couturiers, because clothes are also a kind of art.

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