Learn more about the history of Georgia. Kutaisi State Museum of History named after Niko Berdzenishvili.
Local history museums worth visiting in Georgia. Niko Berdzenishvili Chokhatauri Museum of Local Lore.
The museum was founded in 1912. Its funds mainly contain rich monuments of material culture from Western Georgia. The archaeological collection is represented by paleontological material of the age of 200-150 million years – ammonites, traces of animals and plants.
Fossilized forms of the inhabitants of the sea, fossilized samples of wood pulp; geological material – various metal ore and various samples of materials.
The archaeological collection itself covers the period from the Lower Paleolithic to the Late Middle Ages, including tools and military weapons of various eras, samples of handicrafts and ceramic products, almost all types of bronze products known under the name of the Colchian culture, miniature sculptures of a bull, aries, dogs, sheep, etc.; glass of the ancient era, iron products, ceramics; samples of artistic forging of the pre–Christian period - bronze through buckles; medieval ceramic products, glazed ceramics, weapons, etc.; Numismatics Fund: Colchian tetris, golden stater of Alexander the Great, Greek, Roman, Pontic, Bosphorus, Median, Trojan, Arabic, Byzantine and Turkish coins; coins minted on behalf of David Agmashenebeli (Builder), George III, Queen Tamara, Queen Rusudan, Demeter I, George Lash, David Narin and others kings.
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The ethnographic fund contains rich collections of metal, wood, leather, ceramic, glass porcelain objects; collections of the art of coinage and pictorial icons: samples of coinage (X-XVIII centuries) are represented by products made of gold of the highest standard (icons, crosses, ritual dishes, etc.); the bulk of the pictorial icons are Georgian and Russian samples of icon painting XVIII – early XX centuries. The textile fund contains exhibits of ecclesiastical and secular purposes. Among them, samples of church ritual fabrics (shroud, kamilavka, belt, antimins, priest's cape, holy veil) are of particular interest.
The collection of manuscripts and first printed books includes the X-XX centuries: books, historical documents, certificates. The collection of military equipment includes samples of Georgian, Persian, Turkish, Russian, etc. military weapons and equipment of the XIX-X centuries. The collection of photographs contains photos, albums, negatives taken by Georgian and foreign photo artists Al. Roinishvili, D. Ermakov, N. Sagaradze, E. Krar, A. Nordstein and others. The collection of fine arts is represented by the works of I. Paevsky, V. Krotkov, G. Zaziashvili, L. Gudiashvili, A. Bazhbeuk-Melikov and others. There are 200,000 exhibits in total. The museum also has a scientific library and a fund of modern history.
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