More local history museums of Georgia. Borjomi Local History Museum.
The Borjomi Local History Museum is located in an unusually beautiful building in the Gothic style. The museum has many departments, among them there are archeological, historical and ethnographic and local history departments. Within the walls of the museum are stored bronze necklaces, weapons, a collection of money, personal belongings of the Romanovs and much more.
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Address: Borjomi, St. Nino Street, № 5
The museum is situated in the building in Gothic style, which was built in 1890 according to the project of the German architect Vladimir Schweier, who represented the management of the Borjomi estate of the governor of the Russian Emperor on the Caucasus, the Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov. The museum was founded in 1926.
The Borjomi regional history museum consists of archeological, historical-ethnographical and local history departments, as well as exhibits of applied arts. There are unique bronze necklaces and weapons (II-I millennia B.C.), a diverse numismatic collection (V century B.C. - XX century), personal belongings of the Romanovs: European and Asian ware, works of fine art, the total amount of which exceeds 37 000.
The history of Borjomi's unique mineral waters goes back many centuries. In 1912-1913 the remains of the most ancient baths of the 1st century were excavated in the form of small pools. The date of discovery of Borjomi mineral waters of new time is considered to be 1810.
In the archaeological exposition of the museum there are clay sculptures of a man dating back to the VI-IV millennium BC, which experts consider a sign of transition to the culture of early land use. At the very beginning of the exposition the culture of the so-called Middle Bronze Age, to which the complexes exhibited in the museum belong, is widely represented.
These objects were found in the tombs and belong to the III-II millennia BC. Gold and silver bracelets, bronze weapons and black polished ceramics are already found in this era. The bronze buckles of fine work attract special attention. Such buckles, due to their highly cultured qualities, attracted the attention of antiquity lovers as early as the last century, and therefore Georgian fine work buckles are kept not only in the collections of Georgian museums, but also in London and New York. The Applied Arts Department presents the best examples of art, original objects made of porcelain, crystal, faience, terracotta, clay, bronze, copper, wood and other materials, which are made in different countries of the world: Germany, France, Italy, England, China and in other countries.
The exposition includes a model of a glass factory furnace. In Georgia, modern glass production was first organized in Borjomi in 1830. In addition, there are materials reflecting the history of the mineral water bottling plant in 1894-95, a model of a building and others.
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Хотела бы побывать в этом музее, проникнуться духом того времени, так сказать.
Спасибо отдельное, что в таких постах выкладываете много фотографий. Я посмотрела и как будто немного окунулась в эту атмосферу, хотя в музее не побывала.