Akhaltsikhe Museum, History museum in Rabati Fortress, Akhaltsikhe, Georgia

This museum sits within the rebuilt Rabati Fortress and displays more than 25,000 artifacts across multiple exhibition halls. The collection documents archaeological discoveries and cultural objects from the regional history of Samtskhe-Javakheti.

A district museum was founded in Akhaltsikhe in 1921 on the basis of Ivane Gvaramadze's family collection, but it closed in 1924 for lack of a building and its exhibits went to the Simon Janashia State Museum. A regional museum reopened in 1937 through the efforts of Gvaramadze's son Konstantin. It was named after historian Ivane Javakhishvili in 1972, the same year it moved into two buildings in Rabati, and in 2005 it took its current name.

The ethnographic collection holds guild banners, embroidered cloths, carpets and kilims, copper and silver vessels, and carved wooden objects from Samtskhe-Javakheti. Personal archives of figures such as Zakaria Chichinadze, Mikheil Tamarashvili and Konstantin Gvaramadze are kept here, alongside material on the Georgian community of Istanbul.

The museum is located inside the fortress complex, allowing visitors to explore multiple historical attractions in one place. It makes sense to plan time for both the museum and the fortress itself to experience the full site.

The numismatic fund grew considerably in recent decades, notably through Nikoloz Begishvili's collection: a denarius of Caesar Augustus, Roman copper and silver coins of the 1st–4th centuries, 11th-century Byzantine gold and silver, and 13th-century Seljuk, Qa'anid and Hulaguids issues, plus coins struck by Qazan Khan and Qvarqvare I Jaqeli.