Places
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Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory
The Evgeni Kharadze Georgian National Astrophysical Observatory, on Mount Kanobili in Abastumani, 1,600–1,700 metres above sea level and 30 kilometres north-wes...
Abkhazian State Museum
The regional museum of Sukhumi, opened in 1917 and granted state status in 1928: more than a hundred thousand objects, from the Acheulean site of Yashtkhva, the...
Batumi Archaeological Museum
The museum of the archaeology of Adjara in Batumi, at 77 Ilia Chavchavadze Street: 22,800 objects from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages, finds from the Colchian...
Georgian National Museum
A union of museums and research institutes, formed in 2004.
Joseph Stalin Museum
A state museum in the centre of Gori, the town where the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (Jughashvili) was born in 1878. The complex takes in the small memorial hou...
Mikheil Khergiani House Museum
The memorial museum of the "Tiger of the Rocks", the seven-times USSR champion mountaineer Mikheil Khergiani (1932–1969), in the Lagami quarter of Mestia, in th...
Oni Local Lore Museum
The principal museum of Racha, founded in 1948 and opened in 1952, in Oni on Rustaveli Street: 15,500 objects from the Stone Age to the twentieth century, among...
Ozurgeti History Museum
The oldest of the seven museums of Guria, founded in 1924 on the initiative of Akaki Shanidze and grown from 1936 into the museum of local lore, with more than...
Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography
A museum in Mestia founded in 1936 on the antiquities of the church of St George of Seti: the richest collection of the medieval Georgian chased and painted ico...