Batumi archaeological Museum is one of the main cultural attractions of the city. The archaeological Museum is housed in a small two-storey building on Chavchavadze street.

The Museum, which has a hundred-year history, was opened to the public in 1994, and Since its opening it has ranked among the best archaeological museums of not only the city but also throughout Georgia. The Museum collection consists of over 22800 exhibits, most of which is occupied by the finds from the excavations conducted on the territory of Adjara.

In addition to the exposure in the Batumi archaeological Museum also has a restoration laboratory in which photographically and graphically recorded, all stored in Museum collections exhibits. In addition, the Museum has a research library and photo archive.

The inner part of the Museum is a huge hall with two floors. The study of exposition is best to start from the second floor because it houses artifacts from the stone and iron ages. Most of the iron age exhibits are items of Colchis tribal culture.

The first floor of the Museum contains exhibits Dating back to the ancient period and the early and late middle ages. Many artifacts were discovered by archaeologists during excavations in the ancient and medieval fortified buildings of Adjara. Here visitors can see a collection of Greek and Roman pottery of ancient times, Roman and Greek coins.

Among the exhibits of ancient and Roman periods in the Batumi archaeological Museum houses various objects found during archaeological excavations on the territory of the Gonio-Apsaros fortress. This also includes items from the "Gonio buried treasure" sculptures, ancient ornaments, bronze and glassware. In addition, the Museum's collection presents a trove of Khelvachauri, which indicates the Adjaria's contacts with the Arab world in the early middle ages, and exhibits of the late middle ages, at a time when Adjara has got the power of the Ottoman Empire.