The most interesting places in Georgia are the museums of Tbilisi, Batumi, Kutaisi and the Stalin Museum in Gori - prices, excursions and opening hours.
The list of sights of Georgia includes a number of museums in Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi. If you are looking for something to see in Georgia, prepare to visit them in advance, find out the prices for excursions to museums in Tbilisi, the opening hours of museums and their features...
The most interesting museums of Georgia⬇️
In this article we will talk about the most interesting museums that our editors recommend to visit.
Our selection is opened by the museums of the capital of Georgia – Tbilisi.
Ethnographic Museum
Address: Tbilisi, Vake Park.
Opening hours: from 10:00 to 16:00, except Monday.
Cost:
- adults 3 lari (69.05 rubles);
- children 50 tetri (11.51 rubles);
- one-hour excursion 25 lari (575.42 rubles);
- two-hour excursion of 50 lari (1150.84 rubles).
Ethnographic Museum, Another name is the Museum of Georgian Folk Architecture and Everyday Life, located in the open air. Coming here, you will be able to see the traditional rural buildings of different regions, where you will learn about the ancient peasant life. You will learn that "darbazi" is a typical type of ancient dwelling for eastern Georgia, which combines turrets covered with hay, very similar to the houses of the mountainous regions of western Georgia. And the most striking place will be a genuine blacksmith shop and a Marawi wine pantry.
National Museum
Address: Tbilisi, Shota Rustaveli Avenue, 3.
Opening hours: from 10 to 16, except Monday.
Cost:
- adults 3 lari (69 rubles);
- students 0.5 lari (11.51 rubles);
- schoolchildren 0.5 lari (11.51 rubles);
- children under 6 years old are free.
The official website of the museum: http://museum.ge/.
Main Museum of Georgia presents to your attention authentic collections of gold and silver objects of the pre-Christian period, which are stored in the Treasury of the museum, including amazing cups and bowls, jewelry and items of royal decoration, ancient coins. Here you will also visit the hall dedicated to ancient carpets of Iranian, Turkmen, Afghan and Azerbaijani production, as well as an impressive collection of weapons of the 19th century.
The National Museum presents world-famous art collections and dynamic exhibitions about the wonderful world of culture, science and education. The exhibition contains evidence of the existence of the oldest man in Eurasia, samples of magnificent medieval and Christian art, as well as stunning jewelry from the ancient land of Colchis.
Special attention should be paid to modern paintings by Georgian artists and masterpieces of Eastern, Western European and Russian decorative and applied art.
Museum of Art
Address: Tbilisi, Lado Gudiashvili str., 1.
Opening hours: from 10:00 to 16:00, except Monday.
Cost:
- adults 3 lari (69.05 rubles);
- schoolchildren 1 GEL (23.02 rubles);
- children under 6 years old are free.
Here, as well as in the National Museum, there is a Treasury where various gold and silver objects, products made of cloisonne enamel of the Christian era will make an indelible impression on you. Russian Russian icons of the 16th century, Flemish and German portraits of the 18th century, paintings by great Russian painters such as Repin, Kandinsky and Serov will attract your attention here. Examples of fine art of the Renaissance and later works of Western Europe, Russia and Georgia, among which there are Russian icons of the 16th century, Flemish and German portraits of the 18th century, paintings by great Russian painters such as Repin, Kandinsky and Serov. Special attention in The Museum of Art pay attention to the halls where the works of the Georgian primitive artist Niko Pirosmani are exhibited.
Then you will learn about some museums of the city of Batumi.
Archaeological Museum
Address: 77 Chavchavadze str., Batumi.
Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00, except Monday.
Cost:
- adults 3 lari (69.05 rubles);
- students 1 GEL (23.02 rubles);
- schoolchildren 0.5 lari (11.51 rubles).
The museum will be interesting and useful to everyone, including archaeologists and historians who study the development of civilization. In museum halls there are a large number of finds of the Stone (from 3 million years ago to 5-6 thousand years ago) and Iron (9-7 centuries BC) centuries. The exhibits are ancient ceramics, tools, bowls and cups, ancient coins. Important exhibits of the museum are the Year and products found in the Tombs of the fortress.
The museum's collection covers the period between the VIII and I centuries BC. One of the exhibitions includes archaeological exhibits found by scientists during excavations in the vicinity of the capital of Georgia. The permanent exhibition presents gold products, bronze sculptures and their fragments.
State Museum of Adjara
Address: Batumi, Chincharadze str., 4. Opening hours: from 10:00 to 18:00.
Cost:
- adults and children 2 lari (46.03 rubles);
- guide services 5 lari (115.08 rubles).
Exposition museum he will demonstrate stuffed wild animals, archaeological finds, Arab forged products and ancient weapons. In addition, among all the exhibits there is an exhibition dedicated to the tea industry, thanks to which you will learn the story of a Chinese merchant who became the first founder of tea plantations in the Adjara region.
The museum fund stores more than 180 thousand exhibits, among which the manuscript department and the scientific library stand out. The exhibition presents ancient manuscripts in Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian and other languages, as well as more than 60 thousand ancient books in a single copy in the world. The central artifact is an eighteen-meter skeleton of a whale, which was presented to the museum in 1962.
Next, we will tell you about the expositions of the Museum of Art and the Museum of History and Ethnography of the city of Kutaisi.
Museum in Georgia
Address: Kutaisi, Shota Rustaveli Avenue, 8.
Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00, except Monday.
Special attention should be paid to the exposition of this museum, because the best collection of Georgian art is exhibited here. Be sure to see the paintings of David Kakabadze, Elena Akhvlediani, Lado Gudiashvili and Robert Ivanovich Sturua, who was the father of the famous theater director Robert Sturua. There are also portraits of Niko Pirosmani, a representative of Georgian primitivism.
Museum of History and Ethnography
Address: Kutaisi, David Agmashenebeli Square.
Opening hours: from 10:00 to 17:00, except Monday.
The city treasury is located here, where various jewelry items are stored: icons made of gold, salaries decorated with precious stones, chest crosses and silver chests. In another hall of the museum there are collections of weapons and armor, objects of winemaking and hunting from the late Middle Ages. But the most interesting exhibit is a statue of the 6th century BC, depicting the God of Fertility, found in Baghdadi.
Stalin Museum in Gori
And concludes our selection Stalin Museum in Gori
This is the only museum on the planet dedicated to the Soviet leader and dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. The museum is located in his hometown and the house where he was born in 1879. The dwelling is located under the so-called dome, which was erected by Beria in 1939. One of the halls tells about Stalin's youth life and the beginning of his revolutionary movement. In the next hall there is an exposition dedicated to the period before the Second World War (before 1939), and the last hall tells about the role and significance of Stalin in this war (1939-1945).
Address: Gori, Sobornaya str., 10. Opening hours: daily from 10:30 to 16:00.
Cost:
- guided entrance 15 lari (345.25 rubles);
- exhibition halls and memorial house 10 lari (230.17 rubles);
- Stalin's personal carriage 5 lari (115.08 rubles);
- children under 6 years old are free.
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Искусство, история и архитектура Грузии это нечто прекрасное, такого не встретишь нигде.
Мне кажется, надо выделить отдельное путешествие для посещения музеев и отдельное путешествие для поездок по достопримечательностям)
Большой выбор!
Искусство, история и архитектура Грузии это нечто прекрасное, такого не встретишь нигде.
Мне кажется, надо выделить отдельное путешествие для посещения музеев и отдельное путешествие для поездок по достопримечательностям)
Большой выбор!
А на втором месте у меня Археологический музей, очень меня притягивает тема раскопок и исторический находок, поэтому с удовольствием прикоснусь к отголоскам каменного и железного веков в виде музейных экспонатов.