State art Museum of Georgia is one of the cultural and architectural sights of Tbilisi. The Museum building - the building of the early XIX century, is located near Liberty square, it is already more than half a century locates their collections the art Museum of Georgia, which is one of the largest museums in the country. In the Museum there are about 140 thousand works of Georgian, European and Oriental art.

The Tbilisi history Museum began in 1920, when a group of young artists founded the National art gallery, which became the predecessor of this Museum. The Grand opening of the Central Museum of fine arts was held in August 1923, the Museum has repeatedly changed its location and for some time was placed in the Church, making all of his collection remained in tact even in the most difficult times for the country.

In 1950, the Museum finally moved into the building of the former Seminary, and that's when it got its modern name. The Museum bears the name Shalva amiranashvili, who was its Director for 30 years. Part of the exhibits of the Museum of fine arts of Georgia were obtained from the European countries, and the other part was donated by private collectors.

Very popular among tourists is the collection of cloisonné enamels, comprising nearly a third of all enamels that are in the world. Most of them dated X-XII century deserve Special attention as examples of medieval coinage VIII-XIII century, for example, the gold Cup of the Georgian king Bagrat III and a gold pectoral cross that belonged to the Queen Tamara. Another treasure is written in article VI anchi icon of Edessa.

The fine arts collection consists of works of Repin, Serov, Aivazovsky, Vasnetsov, Surikov, etc. the basis of the Museum is a Georgian painting, covering the entire period of the artistic culture of the Georgian people. In addition to the exhibits that relate to the Georgian culture, there are also interesting works of Oriental art, for example, valuable Persian rugs, Turkish and Indian shawls.