Product Description

Address: 4, Jincharadze str., 6000, Batumi
Date of establishment: 1908
Judicial Status of the Museum: The Legal Public Entity (Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Ajara)
Type (profile): History
Quantity of stored items: 169108

Museum collection description: The museum houses archaeological materials of XII-IX c.c. B.C.: engraved axes, bronze ram, the Gonio Treasury samples – intaglio with Aphrodite and Eros images, I-II c.c. golden engraved phial, golden figurine of discus-thrower, golden pendants with images of Helios and decorative motifs, beads made of various materials, fragments of belts (gold, pasta), brooch, religious bronze sculptures, fragments of trunk decorations with images of oak leaves and acorns; ethnographic, folk and applied art samples, manuscripts, fine art items, rare samples of the nature (25 billion years old fossilized tree).

Working hours: Everyday except Monday, 10.00 – 17.00
Ticket price: Adults -1 GEL, Students – 0.50 GEL, Schoolchildren – 0.3 GEL
Free of charge: Children under 6 years of age and homeless children, soldiers, employers of Georgian and Foreign Museums, ICOM members, I and II category disabled persons.

Exhibitions: Georgian State – 3000, Tbel Abuseridze-800, Ekvtime Takaishvili – 140
Educational Programmes: Georgian language, Georgian art of fighting
Publications: “Georgian Orthodox churches in Ajara”, “From Madrasah to high school”, Museum guide

Total space of the organization: 1737, 6 m²
Display space: 706 m²
Storage space: 110 m²

Museum building status: Immovable monument of Cultural Heritage