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The Georgian National Museum integrates the management of the following museums: Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi; Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum, Akhaltsikhe; Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi; Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi, and its branches; Museum of the Soviet Occupation, Tbilisi
The museum evolved from the museum of the Caucasian Department of the Russian Imperial Geographic Society, founded on May 10, 1852, and converted into the Caucasian Museum on the initiative of the German explorer Gustav Radde in 1865. After Georgia regained independence from Russia (1918), the museum was renamed into the Museum of Georgia in 1919.
The Georgian National Museum gathers several important museums, including the Art Museum of Georgia. The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 2012. [76] [unreliable source] Two independent contemporary art organizations, Kunsthalle Tbilisi [77] [78] and Open Space of Experimental Art, [79] were founded in 2018.
David Baazov Georgian Jew History Museum. "Animal World" – Nature Museum [1][2] Cinema History Museum. Puppet Museum. Museum of Georgian Medicine. Museum of Tbilisi National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Museum of Rustaveli Theatre. Museum of Marjanishvili Theatre. Museum of Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts.
The history of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, dates back to at least the 5th century AD.Since its foundation by the monarch of Georgia's ancient precursor Kingdom of Iberia, Tbilisi has been an important cultural, political and economic center of the Caucasus and served, with intermissions, as the capital of various Georgian kingdoms and republics.
Georgian Art Palace - Museum of Cultural History is a depository of Georgian cultural objects. The museum is housed in a building in Tbilisi. It was designed by a well-known architect of the time, Paul Stern, and, as an example of historicism, bears traces of Gothic architecture and Islamic architecture. [2]
The David Baazov Museum of History of Jews of Georgia is a principal museum of the Jewish history and culture in Tbilisi, Georgia.It was established by the decision of Administration of the "Georgian Committee for assisting the Poor" (established in 1928) on November 30, 1932, as a departmental organization within the framework of cultural base of Jewish workers; it was officially founded by ...
The first building of the museum was located on Mtatsminda hills in Tbilisi, home to the pantheon of Georgia’s most prominent writers and poets, Mtatsminda Pantheon; initially, the museum was created to guard the documents and manuscripts of those famous personalities. Hence the first name of the institution was Museum of Mtatsminda Writers.