Batumi Archaeological Museum

Museum

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The Batumi Archaeological Museum, named after the famous archaeologist Amiran Kakhidze, is the most important scientific, educational and cultural center of our country. It is not just a repository, but a space where millennia of history come to life. The museum is located at 77 Chavchavadze Street, in a building of the sophisticated architectural style of the 50s of the 20th century, which in itself is already a part of history. The museum's exhibition halls offer a unique journey through time, which includes: The beginnings of the Stone Age: the oldest treasure of the exposition - stone tools discovered in the mountains of Adjara, near the resort of Beshumi, and whose age is determined to be 300-400 thousand years! Imagine the scale of the time period we are talking about! As for the center of civilization: the exhibited material clearly shows that the territory of Adjara was the area where about 10,000 years ago a revolutionary transition from subsistence farming to productive agriculture began – this is a turning point in the history of mankind. The mystery of the Golden-Gold Colchis is represented by a variety of artifacts from the Eneolithic-Early Bronze Age and, especially, the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (15th-7th centuries BC). Rare collections in the museum confirm the fact that the Chorokhi basin was the oldest center of mining metallurgy in the Middle East and was the birthplace of the Colchian tribal culture. It is precisely this region that is associated with the famous Greek myth about the Argonauts - the story about the “Golden-Gold” country, which the museum’s rich gold fund (with samples of Colchian goldsmithing) unconditionally confirms!
The museum's collection of artifacts discovered during more than half a century of excavations in southwestern Georgia (Gonio-Apsaros, Pichvnari, Tsikhisdziri, etc.) tells us about the connection with the ancient world, which speak through exhibits about close trade, economic and cultural relations with the ancient world, Greek colonization and Roman-Byzantine expansion.
The exhibits include: imported and locally produced ceramics. Exquisite terracotta figurines. The highest examples of toreutics and jewelry art. Priceless numismatic and glyptic monuments (gold, silver, bronze and iron). The Batumi Archaeological Museum is a place where history awaits its discoverer.

Entry fee:

For adults: 6 GEL

Family (for children under 16): 1 GEL

Student: 3 GEL.

₾6

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