The best and most interesting museums in Georgia. Dadiani State Historical and Architectural Museum.
The Dadiani State Historical and Architectural Museum includes two magnificent palaces, a church and a garden. This museum is considered one of the oldest in Georgia. There are more than fifty-two thousand unique specimens stored here. You will find manuscripts, miniatures, memorial relics and other most unusual things.
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Address: Zugdidi, Zviad Gamsakhurdia Street № 1
The museum includes two palaces, which belonged to the rulers of Samegrelo - the Dadiani family, the palace church Vlakern behalf of the Virgin Mary and a botanical garden.
The palace of Tsarevna of Samegrelo-Katerina Chavchavadze-Dadiani was erected in 1873-1878 by architect Edvig Rais, and the palace of Niko Dadiani - by Russian architect Leonid Vasiliev in the 80s of the XIX century during the reign of Nina Dadiani. In 1840 David Dadiani entrusted his wife with the cultivation of the princely, now botanical, garden. Catherine ordered seedlings from the garden of Versailles and Milan. And for the planning of the garden she invited from Italy famous specialists Joseph Babini, later - brothers Giovanni and Gaetano Zamberletti. At the end of the 19th century in the competition for examples of landscape gardening in the Russian Empire, the Zugdidi garden won first place. Today only one part of this magnificent park has survived.
The museum was founded in 1921. It is one of the oldest museums in Georgia. At the same time its foundations were laid as early as 1840 by the ruler of Samegrelo David Dadiani, who in his own house exhibited archaeological finds found in Arheopolis (Nokalakevi), ethnographic materials and collections of European military equipment and paintings he had gathered.
At present, the museum holds more than 52 thousand unique samples of the national cultural heritage: objects of the golden hoard of Tagiloni from the Bronze Age - I millennium BC, The oldest Christian treasures, including the clothes of the Virgin Mary, items from the 12th and 14th centuries that belonged to Queen Tamar's mother, Queen Bordoghian and other kings and lords of the Georgian regions, manuscripts, miniatures, memorial relics of the Dadiani family, examples of European cultural heritage, including personal effects of Napoleon Bonaparte, his library of 6000 books, collection of paintings and drawings, engravings, etc. These objects ended up in Zugdidi thanks to the wife of David Dadiani's daughter Salome, who married the grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's sister, Prince Achille Murat (1847-1895), Adjutant Adjutant of Napoleon III.
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