Museum of Colchian Culture in Poti. Learn more about Georgian culture.
If you want to learn a little more about the Colchian culture, you must visit the Museum of Colchian Culture in Poti. Here you will find collections of archaeological and ethnographic materials, which tell stories. There are many church items and a huge collection of coins. A visit is definitely recommended.
Address: Poti, 26 May street, No. 9
The museum was founded in 1933. It is housed in a building built in 1908.
The museum contains archaeological and ethnographic collections reflecting the ancient Colchian history and materials telling about the history of the city of Poti. The chronological framework of archaeological exhibits extends from the III millennium BC to the VI century AD.
Attention is drawn to the samples of bronze plastics of small forms, including the sculpture of the "Great Mother of the Gods" - the supreme deity of fertility, agriculture, reproduction of plants and animals.
The dining room and kitchen utensils, bronze tools and military weapons, etc. found in the places of collective burial are impressive. The numismatic collection is distinguished, among other things, by the stater of Lysimachus, gold coins minted on behalf of Alexander the Great, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, the Russian Empress Elizabeth I; church objects of the Christian era, icons, holy books, ethnographic material of the XIX century, materials telling about the development of the city of Poti should be noted.
The total number of exhibits reaches 26 thousand.
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