Varlam Makharoblidze Tsageri Historical Museum

The Varlam Makharoblidze Historical Museum in Tsageri is an important cultural center of the Tsageri municipality, founded in 1937. Located at: st. Shota Rustaveli, 59, Tsageri. The museum is a non-profit organization and is a historical museum with an extensive collection of 11,000 objects. Collections of archaeological finds mainly cover the regions of Lower Svaneti and Lechkhumi in Western Georgia. They date from the Bronze Age and Antiquity periods. The exhibition features a variety of artifacts such as a bronze horseman, a bronze treasury, Oriental and Cholhei bronze axes, a Caucasian sickle, a Hittite bridle, Stone Age tools, coins (including a coin of Alexander the Great and Cholhei tetri), and rare 19th-century books. The branch of the museum is the House-Museum of Lado Asatiani in the village of Bardnala. Museum opening hours: daily, except Sundays, from 10:00 to 17:00. Ticket prices are 2 GEL for students and adults, 1 GEL for schoolchildren. Admission is free for children under 6 years of age, employees of Georgian and foreign museums, ICOM members (with ID), people with disabilities (with ID) and refugees.