State Museum of Arts of Georgia

The State Museum of Arts of Georgia is a collection of paintings not only of Georgia, but also of the East, Russia and Europe. The collection fund is about 140,000 unique works of art.

At the beginning of the XX century, the National Art Gallery was here, but due to the demand for the conceived idea, its scale increased, and the addition of new exhibits, including not only historical canvases, but also manuscripts, metal products, jewelry, one of the most important museums of Georgia appeared here. The museum itself was repeatedly moved and for some time its exhibits were even in the church, so all the collections remained untouched even in the most troubled times of the country.

Nowadays, so many people have shown their desire to look at the national treasures of the nation that the Museum has often held temporary exhibitions in other museums of Georgia and abroad. Among the treasures of the museum are priceless masterpieces of medieval coinage of the VIII-XIII centuries, the golden bowl of Bagrat III (999), the golden breast cross of Queen Tamara, decorated with emeralds, rubies, and pearls, with the inscription “Tsar and Queen Tamar”. This cross was made in the last quarter of the XII century.

The museum contains the oldest in Georgia, dating from the VI century, Anchi icon of the Savior Not Made by Hands (Anchiskhati). Here you can see works of Chinese and Japanese art, monuments of Egyptian, Iranian and Indian art, shawls from India, Turkey, Iran, Persian carpets.

Fine art is represented by paintings by European masters, Russian artists - I. Repin, V. Surikov, V. Serov, I. Aivazovsky, A. Vasnetsov.