Kutaisi State Historical Museum: History, Exhibits, and Address

The numismatics department of the museum houses gold Macedonian staters, various Greek, Roman, Pontic, Bosphorus, Median, Parthian, Arabic, Byzantine and Turkish coins; also coins of kings David Agmashenebeli, George III, Demeter I, Lasha George, David Narin and Queen Tamara, Queen Rusudan, etc.

The Kutaisi State Historical Museum named after Niko Berdzenishvili is located in the center of Kutaisi (on Pushkin Street 18). The museum was founded in 1912. The museum has a rich collection of objects of material culture, which was discovered in Western Georgia.

There are paleontological and geological materials dating back to 200-150 000 years ago. The archaeological department of the museum covers the periods from the Lower Paleolithic to the late Middle Ages: household and hunting tools; handicraft samples and ceramic products; bronze objects (known as "objects of the Colchian culture"), miniature sculptures; glass and ceramic products, weapons of the ancient period, etc.

The ethnographic fund holds a large collection of metal, wood, leather, ceramic, glass, and porcelain objects. Samples of hammered art (X-XVIII centuries) are represented by various products (icons, crosses, ritual utensils, etc.), which are made at the highest level of jewelry craftsmanship.

The main part of Georgian and Russian iconographic samples belong to the period from the XVIII century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Samples of manuscripts and old printed publications - books, historical documents, certificates - belong to the X -XX centuries. The collection of military weapons is represented by samples of Georgian, Persian, Turkish, and Russian military equipment of the XI-XX century. The textile department has exhibits for ecclesiastical and secular purposes.

It should be noted the collection of works of photography. There are photographs, albums, negatives and films made by Georgian and foreign masters of photography, as well as a collection of paintings.