Georgian national Museum Photo: Georgian national Museum

Georgian national Museum in Tbilisi is a whole Museum network of some of the most famous museums in the country. It is located in the center of Tbilisi, on Rustaveli Avenue.

The date of Foundation of the Georgian National Museum is considered to be December 30, 2004, It was then thirteen museums in the country merged into one office. The structure of the Museum includes the Museum of history of Tbilisi, Georgia Museum of a name of S. Janashia, the Samtskhe-Javakheti historical Museum named after I. Javakhishvili, the Ethnographic Museum named after G. Chitaia, the State art Museum of Georgia, Museum of Soviet occupation, the Dmanisi Museum-reserve of history and archaeology, the Archaeological Museum-reserve in Wani, Svaneti Museum of history and Ethnography, Institute of paleobiology, Signagi Museum, National art gallery of Georgia and the Institute of archaeology.

The basis of the Georgian National Museum was the result of holding in the country's legal, institutional and structural reforms to modernize the management of cultural institutions into a single network. Almost since the founding of the Museum is under the management of Professor and corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences D. Lordkipanidze.

Simply spacious Museum building designed in the style of old-Georgian architecture. Previously it housed the Caucasian Museum, which has existed since 1825 In modern Georgian national Museum contains unique items Caucasian culture. Visitors to the Museum can learn more about the history of the Caucasus, starting with article IV BC, and ending with the present.

The jewel of the Museum is the Gold Fund, which presents the excavations found on the Trialeti Kurgan (II century BC). This collection consists of gold and silver vessels, ceramics. The gold Fund has become famous all over the world. In the collection of the Georgian national Museum - jewelry, dated to the V-IV centuries B. C. rich collections of weapons and coins of the countries of the Middle East, as well as Handicrafts - carpets, fabrics, costumes, carved wooden products.

The Museum has a gift shop where you can buy many interesting things.

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