Georgian National Museum
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The Georgian National Museum is a museum network in Georgia
that brings together several leading museums from various parts of the country. The Georgian National Museum was established within the framework of structural, institutional and legal reforms aimed at modernizing the management of the institutions united within this network, and at coordinating research and educational activities. Since its foundation on December 30, 2004, the Museum has been directed by Professor David Lordkipanidze
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The Georgian National Museum integrates the management of the following museums:
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
that brings together several leading museums from various parts of the country. The Georgian National Museum was established within the framework of structural, institutional and legal reforms aimed at modernizing the management of the institutions united within this network, and at coordinating research and educational activities. Since its foundation on December 30, 2004, the Museum has been directed by Professor David Lordkipanidze
David Lordkipanidze
David O. Lordkipanidze is a Georgian anthropologist and archaeologist, Professor, Dr.Sc., Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences . He is famous for having discovered the hominin species, Homo georgicus...
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The Georgian National Museum integrates the management of the following museums:
- Simon Janashia Museum of GeorgiaSimon Janashia Museum of GeorgiaThe Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia , formerly known as the State Museum of History of Georgia, is one of the main history museums in Tbilisi, Georgia, which displays the country’s principal archaeological findings....
, TbilisiTbilisiTbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936... - Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum, AkhaltsikheAkhaltsikheAkhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as "new fortress".- History...
- Open Air Museum of EthnographyOpen Air Museum of Ethnography, TbilisiThe Giorgi Chitaia Open Air Museum of Ethnography is an open-air museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, displaying the examples of folk architecture and craftwork from various regions of the country. The museum is named after Giorgi Chitaia, a Georgian ethnographer, who founded the museum on April 27, 1966...
, Tbilisi - Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi, and its branches
- Museum of Soviet OccupationMuseum of Soviet Occupation (Tbilisi)The Museum of the Soviet Occupation is a history museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, documenting the seven decades of the Soviet rule in Georgia and dedicated to the history of the anti-occupational, national-liberation movement of Georgia, to the victims of the Soviet political repressions throughout...
, Tbilisi - Dmanisi Museum-Reserve of History and Archaeology, DmanisiDmanisiDmanisi is a townlet and archaeological site in Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera.- History :...
- Vani Museum-Reserve of Archaeology, VaniVaniVani is a town in Imereti region of western Georgia, at the Sulori river , 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi...
- Museum of History of Tbilisi, Tbilisi
- Museum of History and Ethnography of Svaneti, MestiaMestiaMestia is a highland townlet in northwest Georgia, at an elevation of 1,500 meters in the Caucasus Mountains.-General information:According to the current administrative subdivision of Georgia, Mestia is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region , some 128 km northeast of the regional...
- Institute of Palaeobiology, Tbilisi
- Sighnaghi Museum, SighnaghiSighnaghiSighnaghi is a town in Georgia's easternmost region of Kakheti and the administrative center of the Sighnaghi District. It is one of the country's smallest towns with a population of 2,146 as of the 2002 census. Sighnaghi's economy is dominated by production of wine,traditional carpets and...