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Tbilisi Classic Gymnasium History Museum. Museum of Sports. "Tbilisi Pharmacy#1" Museum. Museum of Aeronautics and Aviation. Museum of Railway History. Ilia Chavchavadze Literature-Memorial Museum. Niko Pirosmanashvili Museum (Branch of the Niko Pirosmanashvili Museum in Mirzaani) Merab Kostava House Museum.
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 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 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 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 ...
In 2007, the Tbilisi Art Gallery joined the National Museum of Georgia. A large-scale reconstruction of the gallery building was planned, which resulted in improvements to the central facade and exhibition space. The building has also grown at the expense of gardening. The new exhibition space was created as a result of the reconstruction.
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.
The Museum of the Soviet Occupation is a permanent exhibition displaying archive documents, photo and video materials following the timeline of Georgia’s history from the short-lived independence between 1918 and 1921 to the Soviet army crackdown on the pro-independence rally in 1989 and the declaration of Georgia’s independence in 1991.