The best museums-reserves. Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve in Dmanisi.

The museum-monument is a medieval settlement, in which archaeological excavations are carried out to this day. The medieval ruins have preserved the inner fortress, secular and religious buildings. In addition to the medieval layer, Georgian and foreign experts are studying a 1.8 million-year-old geological layer in Dmanisi, which is distinguished by numerous finds of ancient hominids and animal fossils.

The results of these excavations have changed the previously established in the international community of scientists that hominids were aliens from Africa. In recent decades, 5 skulls and 4 lower jaws of hominids have been excavated in Dmanisi. There are not so many hominid remains found in any layer at the archaeological site in Mirena.

The museum, founded in 1983, presents cultural layers of three eras simultaneously: Stone, Bronze and Middle Ages. The visitor gets the opportunity to examine the objects discovered in Dmanisi as a result of archaeological excavations, including reconstructed models of the "first Europeans" - "Mzia" and "Zezva". Scientists from many countries participate in the Dmanisi project. Traditionally, many foreign youth also come to participate in the excavations.

Since 2010, the excavations have been funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation of the United States of America.