Art Museum of Georgia, Art museum in central Tbilisi, Georgia.
The Art Museum of Georgia is an art museum in Old Tbilisi, housed in a neoclassical building that dates to the 19th century. Its collection covers paintings, icons, coins, archaeological objects, and decorative art, arranged across several floors.
The museum was founded in 1920 under the name National Art Gallery and later moved to a building that had served as an Orthodox theological seminary, taking its current name in 1950. That move gave the institution the space it still occupies today.
The galleries bring together Georgian painting and decorative art alongside works from Russia, Europe, and the Orient, all displayed side by side without strict separation. Walking through the rooms gives a sense of how Georgian artistic tradition developed in dialogue with neighboring and distant cultures.
The museum sits in Old Tbilisi, within walking distance of the main sites in the historic center. Admission is free, and a full visit across all floors takes a good part of an afternoon.
In 1945 the museum recovered a large number of works that had been taken to France during the 1921 Red Army occupation. Their return allowed parts of Georgian art history to survive that might otherwise have been lost permanently.
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