Interesting house-museums of famous figures of Georgia. House-Museum of Elena Akhvlediani.

House Museum of Elena Akhvlediani

House Museum of Elena Akhvlediani was established in 1976 on the basis of the apartment-workshop of Elena Akhvlediani (1898-1975), the People's Artist of Georgia, winner of the Rustaveli Prize. The museum contains the artist's paintings, graphic and scenographic works, illustrations of various books, caricatures, humorous sketches, as well as ethnographic and archaeological collections collected by her in various parts of Georgia: curtains, carpets, ceramics, copperware; a unique personal archive, documentary and photo material, a library. All in all 3406 exhibits.

Elena Akhvlediani is one of the founders of Georgian easel painting. She was educated in the Tbilisi Art Studio, the Academy of Arts, then in Italy and France (in Paris at the "Free Academy of Colorossi"). The Parisian period in the work of Elena Akhvlediani is recognized as her "golden age.

Together with Kote Marjanishvili Elena Akhvlediani is considered to be one of the reformers of the Georgian theater of the twentieth century. Even during the artist's lifetime her house-workshop became one of the main places of concentration of cultural life in Tbilisi. Evenings of poetry, music and art were held here. С. Rikhter, G. Neuhaus, M. Greenberg, M. Rostropovich, E. Virsaladze and others gave concerts here more than once. To this day the museum has preserved the unique atmosphere that prevailed here during the artist's lifetime.