The best local history museums in Georgia. Dusheti Local History Museum.
The Dusheti Local History Museum holds the oldest objects. The oldest item dates back to the eighth century BC. There are also many rare exhibits in the museum: bronze, silver coins, copperware, clothes, tables and chairs of Ilya Chavchavadze, unique photographs and more.
Address: Dusheti, Amilahvariantkari settlement
The museum is located in a building built in 1860, which before that functioned the so-called "station". Date of establishment of the museum - 1949.
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Of the exhibits kept in the museum, the oldest item dates back to the eighth century BC. Rare exhibits include silver and bronze coins, copperware, 150-year-old Khevsur clothes, Ilya Chavchavadze's table and chair, Shio Aravispireli's bookshelf, Gabriel Dzhabushanuri's personal belongings and unique photos of Yermakov and Roinishvili.
There is a small photo exhibition of architectural monuments from Dusheti at the main entrance of the building. Household items characteristic of this region are exhibited in the exposition hall.
The museum keeps items discovered during archaeological excavations on the territory of Dusheti region and accidentally acquired and found items from the Early Bronze Age to the Late Middle Ages; materials reflecting the ethnographic everyday life of the 19th century, fabric samples - curtains of mountainous area of East Georgia of 19th century, folk clothing and accessories, ceramic dishes including samples of glazed pottery, military weapons and tools dating back to the 8th century BC, silver belts, daggers, etc. from the early twentieth century.
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