Museums in Georgia listed by the principal subdivisions of the country.
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Adjara State Museum
Adjara State Museum of Fine Art
Kemal Turmanidze's Ethnographic Museum "Borjgalo"
Batumi Archaeology Museum
Ilia Chavchavadze Museum
Memed Abashidze House Museum
Joseph Stalin House Museum
Khelvachauri Local Museum
Machakheli Valley Ethnography Museum
Gonio-Apsaros Museum-Reserve
Khulo Local Museum
Adjaristskali Art Gallery
Sherip Khimshiashvili House Museum
Khikhani Valley Ethnography Museum
Oladauri Ethnography Museum
Petra-Tsikhisdziri Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve
Niko Berdzenishvili Kutaisi History Museum (web) [ permanent dead link ]
Kutaisi Sport History Museum
Kutaisi Museum of Zakaria Paliashvili
Kutaisi Museum of Military Glory
Kutaisi Fine Art Gallery
Kutaisi-Gelati State Museum-Reserve
Niko Nikoladze House Museum
Samtredia Picture Gallery
Akaki Shanidze House Museum
Khoni Local Museum
Polikarpe Kakabadze House-Museum
Irakli Abashidze House Museum
Giorgi Akhvlediani Tskaltubo Local Museum
Niko Lortkipanidze House Museum
Tskhaltubo Fine Art Museum
Vani Fine Art Museum
Galaktion and Titsian Tabidze House Museum
Georgian National Museum. Vani Archaeological Museum
Chiatura Local Museum
Giorgi Tsereteli House Museum
Mountain-climber Japaridze House Museum
Tkibuli Local Museum
Vladimir Mayakovsky House Museum
Chkhari Agriculture and Craft Museum
David and Sergo Kldiashvili House Museum
Shalva and Petre Amiranashvili House Museum
Zestaponi Local Museum
Ushangi Chkheidze House Museum
Kharagauli Local Museum
Ghoresha Museum of the Village History
Sachkhere Local Museum
Akaki Tsereteli State Museum
Ozurgeti Fine Art Gallery
Ekvtime Takaishvili Museum-Reserve of Gurianta-Vashnari
Lanchkhuti Local Museum
Egnate Ninoshvili House Museum
Niko Berdzenishvili Local Museum of Chokhatauri
Nodar Dumbadze House Museum
Nicholas Marr House Museum
Napareuli Qvevri and Qvevri Wine Museum in Twins Wine Cellar
Napareuli Qvevri and Qvevri Wine Museum
Sagarejo Local Museum
Giorgi Leonidze House Museum
David Gareja Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve
Gurjaani Local Museum
Nato Vachnadze House Museum
Ioseb Noneshvili House Museum
Ivane Beritashvili House Museum
Museum of Military Glory
Giorgi Maisuradze Museum of Village History
Shalikashvili Brothers Museum of Georgian Army
Giorgi Chubinashvili Telavi State History and Ethnography Museum
Alexander Chavchavadze House Museum at Tsinandali
Akhmeta Local Museum
Raphael Eristavi House Museum
Vano Sarajishvili House Museum
Pore Mosulishvili House Museum
Irodion Evdoshvili House Museum
Sandro Akhmeteli House Museum
Vaso Godziashvili House Museum
Sandro Shanshiashvili House Museum
Ilo Mosashvili House Museum
Alexandre Gzirishvili House Museum
Sandro Mirianashvili House Museum
Dedoplistskaro Local Museum
State Museum of Niko Pirosmanashvili at Mirzaani
Museum of Friendship of Nations
Kote Marjanishvili House Museum
Ilia Chavchavadze House Museum
Gremi-Nekresi History and Architecture State Museum-Reserve
Lagodekhi Local Museum
Rustavi Local Museum
Gardabani Local Museum
Martkopi History Museum
Norio History Museum
Nicholas Marr Memorial Museum
Nikoloz Baratashvili House Museum
Mikheil Javakhishvili House Museum
Melik-Phashayev House Museum
Tetritskaro Local Museum
Bolnisi Local Museum
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Museum (Village Tandzia)
Kldekari History and Architecture Museum-Reserve
Georgian National Museum. Dmanisi History and Architecture Museum-Reserve
Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo State Museum
Great Mtskheta Archaeology State Museum-Reserve
Dusheti Local Museum
Gudani Ethnography Museum
Giorgi and David Eristavi House Museum
Vazha-Pshavela House Museum
Dartlo Architectural Reserve
Tianeti Local Museum
Mirza Gelovani House Museum
Alexander Kazbegi Stepantsminda Local Museum
Khashuri Local Museum
Dimitri Kipiani House-Museum
Kareli Local Museum
Sergi Makalatia Gori History and Ethnography Museum
Alexander Javakhishvili House Museum (village Dzevera)
Niko Lomouri House Museum (village Arbo)
Iakob Gogebashvili House Museum
Uplistsikhe History and Architecture Museum-Reserve
Ivane Machabeli House Museum
Didi Liakhvi Gorge Museum-Reserve
Kaspi Local Museum
Jambakur-Orbeliani Palaces
Ivane Javakhisvili House Museum
Giorgi Mazniashvili House Museum
Omar Kelaptrishvili House Museum
Ksani Gorge Archaeology Museum-Reserve
Georgian National Museum. Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum
Vardzia History and Architecture State Museum-Reserve
Akhalkalaki Local Museum
Akhaltsikhe Museum Local Museum
Borjomi Local Museum
Vahan Terian House Museum
Lentekhi Local Museum
Tsageri Local Museum
Lado Asatiani House Museum
Tsageri Picture gallery
Mikheil Khergiani House Museum
Georgian National Museum. Svaneti History and Ethnography Museum
Dadiani Palace History and Architecture Museum
Tsalenjikha History and Ethnography Museum
Terenti Graneli House Museum
Chkhorotsku Local Museum
Khobi Local Museum
Alio Mirtskhulava House Museum
Senaki Museum
Nokalakevi Archaeology Museum-Reserve
Arnold Chikobava Memorial Museum
Senaki Picture Gallery
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia House Museum
Martvili Local Museum
The culture of Georgia has evolved over the country's long history, providing it with a unique national identity and a strong literary tradition based on the Georgian language and alphabet. This strong sense of national identity has helped to preserve Georgian distinctiveness despite repeated periods of foreign occupation.
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the second half of the 19th century and ensured the survival of the Georgian language, literature, and culture during the last decades of Tsarist rule. He is Georgia's "most universally revered hero" and is regarded as the "Father of the Nation."
The Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS) is a main learned society of the Georgia. It was named Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences until November 1990. The Academy coordinates scientific research in Georgia and develops relationship with the academies and scientific centers of foreign countries.
Count Akaki Tsereteli (1840–1915), often mononymously known as Akaki, was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.
Zacharia Petres dze Paliashvili, also known as Zachary Petrovich Paliashvili, was a Georgian composer. Regarded as one of the founders of the Georgian classical music, his work is known for its eclectic fusion of folk songs and stories with 19th-century Romantic classical themes. He was the founder of the Georgian Philharmonic Society and later, the head of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire. The Georgian National Opera and Ballet Theater of Tbilisi was named in his honor in 1937. Notably, Paliashvili's music serves as the basis of the National Anthem of Georgia.
The Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures is a necropolis in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, scholars, and national heroes of Georgia are buried. It is located in the churchyard around St David’s Church "Mamadaviti" on the slope of Mount Mtatsminda and was officially established in 1929. Atop the mountain is Mtatsminda Park, an amusement park owned by the municipality of Tbilisi.
Prince Grigol Orbeliani or Jambakur-Orbeliani was a Georgian Romanticist poet and general in Imperial Russian service. One of the most colorful figures in the 19th-century Georgian culture, Orbeliani is noted for his patriotic poetry, lamenting Georgia's lost independence and the deposition of the Royal House of Bagration. At the same time, he spent decades in the Imperial Russian Army, rising to the highest positions in the imperial administration in the Caucasus.
The House of Chikovani was a Georgian princely (mtavari) house. Dukes of Chikovani ruled a historic province, Lechkhumi in northwestern Georgia. At the end of the 17th century, General Katso Chikovani rose to prominence in Mingrelia, a western Georgian principality. After him, his son became the ruler and assumed the dynastic name of Dadiani.
Tsqaltubo is a district of Georgia, in the region of Imereti. Its main town is Tskaltubo.
Telavi is a municipality of Georgia, in the region of Kakheti. Its administrative centre is Telavi. Telavi is an important transportation hub, industrial, agricultural (winemaking) and cultural center of Eastern Georgia.
Kutaisi State Historical Museum, formally known as the Niko Berdzenishvili Kutaisi State History Museum, is a museum in Kutaisi, Georgia. A major museum, it is also considered to be one of the most important scientific-research institutions in Georgia with its extensive research library and laboratory.
The National Archives of Georgia is the legal entity of public law under the Ministry of Justice of the nation of Georgia. The National Archives holds written documents, film documents, photos, and audio records, totaling more than five million exhibits. The exhibits preserved at the depositories of the archives are dated back to the 9th through 21st century. They include: historical, contemporary history, audio-visual archives and local archives from every region. The documents in the Archives are official, and their preservation has been established by law. Some of the preserved documents include texts from the First Republic, scientific archives, the parish books that hold information about the christening and the death of citizens, the gospel of the 9th century, Anchi gospel, Kings' deeds, private letters, verdicts, other legal monuments, photos from the 19th century, first film documents, and the documents of different state or private structures.
Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Literature, Georgia was founded in 1930 upon the initiative of David Arsenishvili, a legendary museum-founder, who also was the creator of Tbilisi Theater Museum, and later the famous Andrej Rublow museum in Moscow.
Droeba was an influential Georgian political and cultural newspaper published in Tiflis from 1866 to 1885.
The National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia is a government agency in Georgia responsible for preservation, protection, research and promotion of cultural heritage of the country. The agency was established in 2008, bringing several major heritage monument complexes of national and global significance in Georgia under its umbrella. The agency is headed by Director General, a position occupied by the art historian Nikoloz Vacheishvili since November 2008.
Ioseb Kechakmadze was a Georgian composer.
Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology is a Scientific-research institute in Georgia. It originated from the Caucasus Historical-Archaeological Institute, founded in Tbilisi on July 1, 1917, with Nikolai Marr as its initiator and Ekvtime Takaishvili and Giorgi Chubinashvili as its real members. In 1931 the Department of Natural Sciences was added to the Institute and it was renamed the "Institute of Caucasian Studies".
