List of museums in Georgia (country)

Museums in Georgia
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...

listed by the principal subdivisions of the country.

Key
Science Museum (Physics) Geology (Earth Science) Natural (Life Science) Aquarium (Marine Science) Ecological Archaeological (Human Artifacts) Industrial Art Museum Cultural Historic Site History (General) Military History Religious Commodity Collection Children's Museum Aerospace (Planes & Rockets) Railway (Trains) Maritime (Boats & Sea) Automobile Library Biographical Hall of Fame Defunct

Adjara
Adjara
Adjara , officially the Autonomous Republic of Adjara , is an autonomous republic of Georgia.Adjara is located in the southwestern corner of Georgia, bordered by Turkey to the south and the eastern end of the Black Sea...

Adjara State Museum

Adjara State Museum of Fine Art

Batumi Archaeology Museum

Ilia Chavchavadze Museum

Memed Abashidze

Memed Abashidze

Memed Abashidze was a Georgian politician, writer and public benefactor. An eminent leader of Muslim Georgian community of Adjarians, he was a major proponent of pro-Georgian orientation in Adjara and one of the architects of the region's autonomy within Georgia...

House Museum

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

House Museum

Khelvachauri

Khelvachauri

Khelvachauri is a small town in Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 8 km southeast to the regional capital Batumi. The towns of Khelvachauri and Makhinjauri, and adjoining 75 villages form Khelvachauri District bordered by the Black Sea to the west and Turkey to the south...

Local Museum

Machakheli Valley

Machakheli

Machakheli , is a historical geographical area and long valley along the river Machakhlistskali between Turkey and Georgia. There are 23 settled villages in this valley....

Ethnography Museum

Gonio

Gonio

Gonio fortress , is a Roman fortification in Adjara, on the Black sea, 15 km south of Batumi, at the mouth of the Chorokhi river. The village sits 4 km north of the Turkish border....

-Apsaros Museum-Reserve

Khulo

Khulo

Khulo is a townlet in Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia, 88 km east to the regional capital Batumi, in the upper valley of Adjaris-tsqali. The town and adjoining 77 villages form the mountainous Khulo District...

Local Museum

Adjaristskali Art Gallery

Sherip Khimshiashvili

Sherip Khimshiashvili

Sherip Khimshiashvili was the governor of Adjara during the Ottoman rule....

House Museum

Khikhani Valley Ethnography Museum

Oladauri Ethnography Museum

Petra-Tsikhisdziri Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve

Imereti
Imereti
Imereti is a province in Georgia situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni river. It consists of the following Georgian administrative-territorial units:#Kutaisi #Baghdati region#Vani region#Zestafoni region...

Niko Berdzenishvili Kutaisi

Kutaisi

Kutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...

History Museum (web)

Kutaisi Sport History Museum

Kutaisi Museum of Zakaria Paliashvili

Zakaria Paliashvili

thumb|250px|Zakaria Paliashvili portrait by [[Ucha Japaridze]]Zakaria Paliashvili was a composer from the nation of Georgia. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music....

Kutaisi Museum of Military Glory

Kutaisi Fine Art Gallery

Kutaisi-Gelati

Gelati Monastery

The Monastery of Gelati is a monastic complex near Kutaisi, Imereti, western Georgia. It contains the Church of the Virgin founded by the King of Georgia David the Builder in 1106, and the 13th-century churches of St George and St Nicholas....

State Museum-Reserve

Niko Nikoladze

Niko Nikoladze

Niko Nikoladze was a notable Georgian publicist, pro-Western enlightener, and public figure primarily known for his contributions to the development of Georgian liberal journalism and his involvement in various economic and social projects of that time.He was born in the village of Didi...

House Museum

Samtredia

Samtredia

Samtredia is a town in Imereti, Georgia, lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni and Tskhenis-Tsqali, 244 km west of Tbilisi, and 27 km west of Kutaisi, the nation’s capital and the second largest city respectively. Georgia’s most important roads and railways converge there, making Samtredia...

Picture Gallery

Akaki Shanidze

Akaki Shanidze

Akaki Shanidze was a Georgian linguist and philologist. He was one of the founders of the Tbilisi State University and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences ; Doctor of Philological Sciences , Professor .Shanidze graduated from the St. Petersburg University in 1909...

House Museum

Khoni

Khoni

Khoni is a town in the Western Georgian region of Imereti with the population of 11,300 . It is situated on the left bank of the Tskhenistkali River in the north-west of Imereti, close to the border with the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 266 km west of Georgia's capital Tbilisi. The town...

Local Museum

Polikarpe Kakabadze House-Museum

Irakli Abashidze

Irakli Abashidze

Irakli Abashidze was a Georgian poet, literary scholar and politician.Born in Khoni, Georgia , he graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1931 and attended the 1st Congress of the USSR Union of Writers, 1934, when socialist realism was laid down as the cultural orthodoxy...

House Museum

Giorgi Akhvlediani Tskaltubo Local Museum

Niko Lortkipanidze House Museum

Tskhaltubo Fine Art Museum

Vani

Vani

Vani is a town in Imereti region of western Georgia, at the Sulori river , 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi...

Fine Art Museum

Galaktion

Galaktion Tabidze

Galaktion Tabidze was a leading Georgian poet of the twentieth century whose writings profoundly influenced all subsequent generations of Georgian poets. He survived Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s, which claimed lives of many of his fellow writers, friends and relatives, but came under heavy...

and Titsian Tabidze

Titsian Tabidze

Titsian Tabidze was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement. He fell victim to Stalin’s Great Purge, being arrested and executed on trumped-up charges of treason. Tabidze was a close friend of the well-known Russian writer Boris Pasternak who translated his poetry...

House Museum

Georgian National Museum

Georgian National Museum

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...

. Vani Archaeological Museum

Chiatura

Chiatura

Chiatura is a city in the Imereti region of Western Georgia. In 1989, it had a population of about 30,000. It is inland, in a mountain valley on the banks of the Kvirila River, and since 1879 has been a major centre of manganese production in the Caucasus. There is a rail link to transport...

Local Museum

Giorgi Tsereteli

Giorgi Tsereteli

Giorgi V. Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University , founder and first Director of the...

House Museum

Mountain-climber Japaridze House Museum

Tkibuli

Tkibuli

Tkibuli or Tqibuli is a town in west-central Georgia, Imereti Region. It is located at around . It is situated at the northern edge of Imereti region, close to the region of Rach'a, at the foot of Nakerala mountain. The town is a coal mining centre. Tkibuli is located between two man-made...

Local Museum

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...

House Museum

Chkhari Agriculture and Craft Museum

David

David Kldiashvili

David Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing the antagonisms of Georgian society....

and Sergo Kldiashvili

Sergo Kldiashvili

Sergo Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer who set out to be Symbolist but then was drawn to conformist Realist prose under Soviet rule....

House Museum

Shalva and Petre Amiranashvili House Museum

Zestaponi

Zestaponi

Zestafoni or Zestaponi is the capital of Zestaponi District in Western Georgia, which is part of Imereti province.It is an important industrial center, with a large ferro-alloy plant processing manganese ore from nearby Chiatura....

Local Museum

Ushangi Chkheidze House Museum

Kharagauli

Kharagauli

kharagauli is an administrative center of Kharagauli district in Georgia. It is situated on both banks of Chkherimela river in a narrow and deep gorge, 280-400m above the sea level....

Local Museum

Ghoresha Museum of the Village History

Sachkhere

Sachkhere

Sachkhere is a town at the northern edge of the Imereti Province in Western Georgia....

Local Museum

Akaki Tsereteli

Akaki Tsereteli

Prince Ak'ak'i Tsereteli was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.He was born in the village of Skhvitori on June 9, 1840 to the prominent Georgian aristocratic family. His father was Prince Rostom Tsereteli...

State Museum

Guria
Guria
Guria is a region in Georgia, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea. The region has a population of 143,357 and Ozurgeti is a regional capital.-Geography:...

Ozurgeti

Ozurgeti is a town and the regional administrative centre of Western Georgian province of Guria, former Macharadze or Makharadze . Population of Ozurgeti: 21,009...

History Museum

Ozurgeti Fine Art Gallery

Ekvtime Takaishvili Museum-Reserve of Gurianta-Vashnari

Lanchkhuti

Lanchkhuti

Lanchkhuti is a city in western Georgian region of Guria. It has a population of about 8000.Lanchkhuti received city status in 1961. Under the USSR, it was the centre of the Georgian SSR Lanchkhuti area and today continues to serve as the capital of the district of the same name within the Guria...

Local Museum

Egnate Ninoshvili House Museum

Niko Berdzenishvili Local Museum of Chokhatauri

Chokhatauri

Chokhatauri is a town in Georgia’s Guria region, 310 km west to the nation’s capital of Tbilisi. It is an administrative center of Chokhatauri raioni , which comprises the town itself and its adjoining 60 villages. The area of the district is 824 km2; population – 24,090 .Several...

Nodar Dumbadze

Nodar Dumbadze was a Georgian writer and one of the most popular authors in the late 20th-century Georgia....

House Museum

Nicholas Marr House Museum

Kakheti
Kakheti
Kakheti is a historical province in Eastern Georgia inhabited by Kakhetians who speak a local dialect of Georgian. It is bordered by the small mountainous province of Tusheti and the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north, Russian Federation to the Northeast, Azerbaijan to the Southeast, and...

Sagarejo

Sagarejo is a town in Kakheti, Georgia. It is situated east of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, and has the population of 12,600 . It serves as an administrative center of the Sagarejo district....

Local Museum

Giorgi Leonidze

Giorgi Leonidze

Giorgi Leonidze was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar.Leonidze was born in the village of Patardzeuli in the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. He graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1918 and continued his studies at the Tbilisi State University...

House Museum

David Gareja Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve

Gurjaani

Gurjaani

Gurjaani is a town in Georgia, located in the region of Kakheti and serving as the center of the Gurjaani district.Gurjaani is situated in the Alazani Valley, 415 m above sea level, and 110 km east of the nation's capital Tbilisi. As of the 2002 census, its population was approximately 10,000. The...

Local Museum

Nato Vachnadze

Nato Vachnadze

Nato Vachnadze , born Nato Andronikashvili , was a GeorgianUSSR/Soviet film actress. She started her career in the silent film era, usually playing the screen character of an Ingénue, an innocent and passionate young woman. She continued to work as an actress during the sound era until her death...

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

Alexander Chavchavadze

Prince Alexander Chavchavadze was a notable Georgian poet, public benefactor and military figure. Regarded as the "father of Georgian romanticism," he was also known as a preeminent aristocrat of Georgia and a talented general in the Imperial Russian service.-Early life:Alexander Chavchavadze was...

House Museum at Tsinandali

Tsinandali

Tsinandali is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, noted for the estate and its historic winery which once belonged to the 19th-century aristocratic poet Alexander Chavchavadze . It is situated in the district of Telavi, 79 km east of Tbilisi....

Akhmeta

Akhmeta is a town in the Kakheti province of Georgia. It is the home for Zurab Zviadauri, gold medalist in judo.In some parts of southern Germany the term 'Achmeta!' has become a common interjection for expressing disappointment or frustration....

Local Museum

Raphael Eristavi

Raphael Eristavi

Prince Raphael Eristavi was a Georgian poet and playwright.Eristavi was born in Kakheti, Georgia, in the Russian Empire. He attended a school for the children of the nobility in Tblisi, graduating in 1845...

House Museum

Omalo

Omalo

Omalo is a principal village the Tusheti province of Georgia. It lies between the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and the Pirikita Range of Tusheti...

Ethnography Museum

Signagi Museum

Vano Sarajishvili House Museum

Pore Mosulishvili

Pore Mosulishvili

Pore Mosulishvili was a Georgian soldier and partisan in the Italian resistance movement. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal of Military Valor and the title Hero of the Soviet Union for actions during the Second World War.-Biography:Pore Nikolaevich Mosulishvili born in July 20, 1916 to...

House Museum

Irodion Evdoshvili House Museum

Sandro Akhmeteli

Sandro Akhmeteli

Sandro Akhmeteli was a Georgian theater director whose innovative conceptions and skill at mass scenes profoundly influenced the evolution of Soviet and post-Soviet Georgian theater tradition...

House Museum

Vaso Godziashvili House Museum

Sandro Shanshiashvili

Sandro Shanshiashvili

Sandro Shanshiashvili was a Georgian poet and playwright.Shanshiashvili was born in the small village Jugaani near Sighnaghi . In the 1900s, he was noted for his dramas in verse and prose. At the same time, he engaged in revolutionary movement against the Tsarist rule and was put in prison in 1908...

House Museum

Ilo Mosashvili House Museum

Alexandre Gzirishvili House Museum

Sandro Mirianashvili House Museum

Dedoplistskaro Local Museum

State Museum of Niko Pirosmanashvili

Niko Pirosmanashvili

Niko Pirosmani was a Georgian primitivist painter.-Biography:Pirosmani was born in the Georgian village of Mirzaani to a peasant family in the Kakheti province. His parents, Aslan Pirosmanashvili and Tekle Toklikishvili were farmers. They owned a small vineyard, couple of cows and oxes...

at Mirzaani

Museum of Friendship of Nations

Kote Marjanishvili

Kote Marjanishvili

Konstantine "Kote" Marjanishvili also known by the Russified name Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mardzhanov was a Georgian theater director regarded as an important contributor to the pre- and post-revolutionary evolution of Georgian, Russian and Soviet stages...

House Museum

Ilia Chavchavadze House Museum

Gremi

Gremi

Gremi is a 16th-century architectural monument – the royal citadel and the Church of the Archangels – in Kakheti, Georgia. The complex is what has survived from the once flourishing town of Gremi and is located east of the present-day village of the same name in the Kvareli district, 175...

-Nekresi

Nekresi

Nekresi , historic town in Kakheti, Georgia, in modern day Kvareli Municipality, near the village Shilda. The town was established by king Pharnajom . In 4th century AD, king Thrdat built a church in this place. This church became a refuge to one of the Assyrian fathers, Abibus, in the late 6th...

History and Architecture State Museum-Reserve

Lagodekhi

Lagodekhi

Lagodekhi is a small town and district in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia. There is a border crossing there leading to Azerbaijan's Balakan Province.Lagodekhi Nature Reserve, established in 1911, is situated in this area.-External links:***...

Local Museum

Kvemo Kartli
Kvemo Kartli
Kvemo Kartli is a historic province and current administrative region in southeastern Georgia. The city of Rustavi is a regional capital. The population is mixed between Azeris and Georgians .The current governor is Davit Kirkitadze.- External links :* *...

Rustavi

Rustavi is a city in the southeast of Georgia, in the province of Kvemo Kartli, situated southeast of the capital Tbilisi. It stands on the Mtkvari River at...

Local Museum

Gardabani

Gardabani

Gardabani is a town in the Georgian region of Kvemo Kartli, and the centre of the Garbabani district, located 39 km south of Georgia's capital Tbilisi.As of 2002, its population was 19,900 people. The town is roughly 70% Azeri-populated...

Local Museum

Martkopi History Museum

Norio History Museum

Nicholas Marr Memorial Museum

Nikoloz Baratashvili

Nikoloz Baratashvili

Nik'oloz Baratashvili was a Georgian poet, one of the first Georgians to marry a modern nationalism with European Romanticism and to introduce "Europeanism" into Georgian literature...

House Museum

Mikheil Javakhishvili

Mikheil Javakhishvili

Mikheil Javakhishvili was a Georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers. His first story appeared in 1903, but then the writer lapsed into a long pause before returning to writing in the early 1920s...

House Museum

Melik-Phashayev

Alexander Melik-Pashayev

Alexander Shamil'evich Melik-Pashayev was a Soviet- conductor.-External links:**...

House Museum

Tetritskaro Local Museum

Bolnisi

Bolnisi

Bolnisi , is a city in the country of Georgia, located in the Kvemo Kartli region and capital of the Bolnisi district. Currently has an estimated 13,800 inhabitants....

Local Museum

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

Prince Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani was a Georgian prince, writer, monk and convert to Roman Catholicism.- Biography :...

Museum (Village Tandzia)

Kldekari

Kldekari (duchy)

Kldekari was a duchy in the mediaeval Georgia. Ruled by a powerful dynasty of Baghvashi, the duchy existed from 876 to 1103 in the southern Kvemo Kartli province, and, despite its small size, created particular problems to the Bagrationi kings who sought to bring all Georgian lands into a single...

History and Architecture Museum-Reserve

Georgian National Museum

Georgian National Museum

. Dmanisi

Dmanisi

Dmanisi 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 :...

History and Architecture Museum-Reserve

Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Mtskheta-Mtianeti is a region in eastern Georgia comprising the town of Mtskheta, which serves as a regional capital, together with its district and the adjoining mountainous areas.- External links :...

Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo State Museum

Great Mtskheta

Mtskheta

Mtskheta , one of the oldest cities of the country of Georgia , is located approximately 20 kilometers north of Tbilisi at the confluence of the Aragvi and Kura rivers. The city is now the administrative centre of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region...

Archaeology State Museum-Reserve

Dusheti

Dusheti

Dusheti is a town in Georgia, situated in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, 54 km northeast of the nation’s capital of Tbilisi.Dusheti is located on both banks of the small mountainous river of Dushetis-Khevi at the foothills of the Greater Caucasus crest at an elevation of 900 m above sea level...

Local Museum

Gudani Ethnography Museum

Giorgi

Giorgi Eristavi

Giorgi Eristavi was a Georgian playwright, poet, journalist, and the founder of modern Georgian theatre.Prince Giorgi Eristavi was born in the village of Odzisi of a prominent noble family, who had once served as the eristavi of Aragvi for the kings of Georgia. He received his early education...

and David Eristavi House Museum

Vazha-Pshavela

Vazha-Pshavela

Vazha-Pshavela is the pen-name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka P. Razikashvili , a classic of the new Georgian literature.- The biography :...

House Museum

Dartlo Architectural Reserve

Tianeti

Tianeti

Tianeti is a town in east-central Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains. It is located at around .Tianeti is situated in the North-Eastern part of Georgia . According to the 2002 State Census, its population was 3598 people...

Local Museum

Mirza Gelovani

Mirza Gelovani

Mirza Gelovani was a Georgian poet who died, fighting in the Soviet ranks during World War II at the age of 27.Gelovani, with his poetry full of childlike admiration of nature, attracted attention at the age of 16, but it was only after his death that most of his poems were published and made him...

House Museum

Alexander Kazbegi

Alexander Kazbegi

Alexander Kazbegi was a Georgian writer, famous for his 1883 novel The Patricide.Kazbegi was the great grandson of Kazibek Chopikashvili, a local feudal magnate who was in charge of collecting tolls on the Georgian Military Highway...

Stepantsminda

Stepantsminda , is a small town in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region of north-eastern Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, the town is part of the Khevi province...

Local Museum

Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli
Shida Kartli is a region in Georgia. It consists of the following districts: Gori, Kaspi, Kareli, Java, Khashuri.The northern part of the region, namely Java, and northern territories of Kareli and Gori, is controlled by the authorities of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia since...

Khashuri

Khashuri is a town in central Georgia. It is located on the Mtkvari River.Khashuri is first mentioned in the 1693 document. Modern Khashuri was founded in 1872 as a modest railway halt called "Mikhaylovo" after Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, Viceroy of the Caucasus. In 1917, it was...

Local Museum

Dimitri Kipiani

Dimitri Kipiani

Prince Dimitri Kipiani was a Georgian publicist, writer, translator and a leader of liberal nobility....

House-Museum

Kareli

Kareli, Georgia

Kareli is a town in Shida Kartli, Georgia, located on the right bank of the Mtkvari , 94 km west of the nation’s capital of Tbilisi....

Local Museum

Sergi Makalatia Gori History and Ethnography Museum

Alexander Javakhishvili

Alexander Javakhishvili

Alexander Nikolayevich Javakhishvili born 5 August 1875 , 17 August 1875 in Gori, Georgia—died January 22 1973, Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Georgian geographer and anthropologist....

House Museum (village Dzevera)

Niko Lomouri House Museum (village Arbo)

Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori

Joseph Stalin Museum, Gori

thumb|right|The Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori- in the foreground, the house where Stalin was bornThe Joseph Stalin Museum is a museum in Gori, Georgia dedicated to the life of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, who was born in Gori.-Organization:...

Iakob Gogebashvili House Museum

Uplistsikhe

Uplistsikhe

Uplistsikhe is an ancient rock-hewn town in eastern Georgia, some 10 kilometers east of the town of Gori, Shida Kartli.Built on a high rocky left bank of the Mtkvari River, it contains various structures dating from the Early Iron Age to the Late Middle Ages, and is notable for the unique...

History and Architecture Museum-Reserve

Ivane Machabeli

Ivane Machabeli

Prince Ivane Machabeli was a Georgian writer, journalist and public figure known for his resonant translations of Shakespeare....

House Museum

Didi Liakhvi Gorge Museum-Reserve

Kaspi

Kaspi

Kaspi is a town in central Georgia on the Mtkvari River. It is a center of Kaspi district, one of the four districts in Shida Kartli region. Founded in the early Middle Ages, the town turned into possession of the Amilakhvari noble family in the 15th century...

Local Museum

Jambakur-Orbeliani Palaces

Ivane Javakhisvili House Museum

Giorgi Mazniashvili House Museum

Omar Kelaptrishvili House Museum

Ksani

Ksani

Ksani is a small river in central Georgia, which rises on the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in South Ossetia and flows into the Kura River. Ksani is often associated with the Medieval Georgian Ksani Fortress which lies close to the Ksani River....

Gorge Archaeology Museum-Reserve

Samtskhe-Javakheti

Georgian National Museum

. Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum

Vardzia

Vardzia

The cave city of Vardzia is a cave monastery dug into the side of the Erusheli mountain in southern Georgia near Aspindza on the left bank of the Mtkvari River. It was founded by Queen Tamar in 1185....

History and Architecture State Museum-Reserve

Akhalkalaki

Akhalkalaki

Akhalkalaki is a small city in Georgia's southern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti with a population of 60,975. Akhalkalaki lies on the edge of the Javakheti Volcanic Plateau. The city is located about 30 km from the border with Turkey. 90 percent of the city's population are ethnic Armenians...

Local Museum

Borjomi

Borjomi

Borjomi is a resort town in south-central Georgia with a population estimated at 14,445. It is one of the districts of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region and is situated in the northwestern part of the region in the picturesque Borjomi Gorge on the eastern edge of the Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park...

Local Museum

Vahan Terian

Vahan Terian

Vahan Terian was an eminent Georgian born Armenian poet, lyrist and public activist. He is a famous poet known for his sorrowful, romantic poems, the most famous of which are still read and sung in their musical versions by people of all ages.- Biography :...

House Museum

Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti
Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti
Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti is a region in northwestern Georgia which includes the historical provinces of Racha, Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti . It covers an area of 4,954 km² and has a population of 50,969 . It is the most sparsely populated region in the country...

Lentekhi

Lentekhi is a small town and Lentekhi District's capital in Georgia's western region of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti, 323 km northwest to the nation's capital Tbilisi. Situated on the southern slope of the Central Caucasus, the district is a site of alpinism...

Local Museum

Tsageri

Tsageri

Tsageri is a town in Georgia, located in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region in the west of the country and serving as an administrative center of the homonymous district....

Local Museum

Lado Asatiani

Lado Asatiani

Vladimir Asatiani was a Georgian poet. His poetic career, lasting only for seven years, made him one of the best-loved Georgian poets of the 20th century....

House Museum

Tsageri Picture gallery

Racha Regional Museum in Oni

Oni, Georgia

Oni is a town in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region , Georgia. Historically and ethnographically, it is part of Racha, a historic highland province in western Georgia...

Ambrolauri

Ambrolauri is a town in western Georgia which serves as a regional capital of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti and the center of the homonymous district. As of the 2002 census, it had a population of 2,500....

Fine Art Museum

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti is a region in western Georgia which includes the historical Georgian provinces of Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti and has Zugdidi as its capital.-Geography:...

Mikheil Khergiani House Museum

Georgian National Museum

Georgian National Museum

. Svaneti History and Ethnography Museum

Dadiani Palace History and Architecture Museum

Tsalenjikha

Tsalenjikha

Tsalenjikha is a town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region of western Georgia with the population of c. 8,900 . It is located on the Chanis-Tsqali River...

History and Ethnography Museum

Terenti Graneli

Terenti Graneli

Terenti Kvirkvelia Terenti Kvirkvelia Terenti Kvirkvelia ((Georgian:ტერენტი კვირკველია), well known with his pen-name Terenti Graneli (Georgian:ტერენტი გრანელი)(1897-1934) was a noted Georgian poet. Born in Tsalenjikha, he was raised in the family of poor peasant. After graduating primary school in...

House Museum

Chkhorotsku Local Museum

Khobi

Khobi

Khobi is a town in western Georgia with a population of 5,800 . The settlement of Abasha acquired the status of a town in 1981 and currently functions as an administrative center of the Khobi District within the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region....

Local Museum

Alio Mirtskhulava House Museum

Poti

Poti

Poti is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country. Built near the site of the ancient Greek colony of Phasis, the city has become a major port city and industrial center since the early 20th century. It is also...

Colchian

Colchis

In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgian state kingdom and region in Western Georgia, which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgian nation.The Kingdom of Colchis contributed significantly to the development of medieval Georgian...

Culture Museum

Senaki

Senaki

Senaki is a town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, western Georgia. It is located at around .From 1935 to 1976 it was called Tskhakaya in honor of the Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary leader Mikhail Tskhakaya....

Museum

Nokalakevi

Nokalakevi

Nokalakevi, also known as Archaeopolis, is a village and archaeological site in the Senaki municipality, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, Georgia.- History :...

Archaeology Museum-Reserve

Arnold Chikobava

Arnold Chikobava

Arnold Stepanovich Chikobava was a Georgian linguist and philologist best known as for his contributions to the Caucasian studies as well as one of the most active critics of Nicholas Marr's controversial monogenetic "Japhetic" theory of language.Chikobava was born in the small village...

Memorial Museum

Senaki Picture Gallery

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

Konstantine Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian writer and public figure, who, along with Mikheil Javakhishvili, is considered to be one of the most influential Georgian novelists of the 20th century...

House Museum

Martvili

Martvili

Martvili is a small town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti province of Western Georgia. Its monastery was Samegrelo's clerical centre in the Middle Ages...

Local Museum

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Imereti
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