Georgian National Museum
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+995 322 99 71 76
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Closed until tomorrow
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Liberty Square
550 m
First Classical Gymnasium
268 m
47 reviews
August 9, 2024
Another overpriced museum (if a ticket here costs around 10 € or 30 GEL, the Louvre or similar museum should probably sell tickets for 1000 €). There is an area for prehistory, then you move to Georgia/Caucasus biodiversity with stuffed animals and minerals, which is nothing special but ok. At the underground floor they have "the treasury" one part is from the 1800s and is accessible, but if you'd like to view the middle age part you have to pay a supplement (which nobody told me at the ticket counter). But what was most ridiculous for me was at the first floor where they have some artifacts from India or some other oriental culture (?) and an area that they call "Soviet occupation of Georgia" which seems a very unsuccessful way of rewriting history. Maybe for 3 GEL it would be worth a visit.
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November 3, 2024
Typical georgian! Absolutely rude employee in the cloackroom. Ranting (unasked for) about how her boss will thrash her if she let's me in with my micro-backpack and I should shut my mouth and OBEY.
Wonder what she does with Chinese and their HUGE rucksacks.
January 25
The museum evokes ambiguous feelings.
Pros: A good collection, there is something to see, a good Soviet school of exhibiting.
Cons: The lighting is poorly exposed, it will be difficult for people with poor eyesight (we visit many museums, we have traveled to more than 10 countries, there is something to compare it with)
Of course, the museums of Russia are above all, even in the regions. The exposition and the masterful way to display the light, the tags with explanations in at least three languages, Russian, English and Chinese, and now in Moscow they have added German and French, are beyond praise. On our headphones, you can listen in any language about each subject by scanning the kewar code.
It is only in Georgian and English. And only the name, there is no explanation of how. There is no short summary (where, when, why, for what, etc.).
Question to the Georgians: How many Americans and British visit them? And the Russians and Chinese? The ratio is about 1 to 1000. I agree that English is international, but when I traveled to other countries, I didn't really need it at all))) everyone tried to answer in Russian or use Google for translation. I studied German. I will not learn English especially for a trip to Georgia))
So the museum staff pretended that they did not know Russian and spoke excellent English)) But when one of the caretakers, not understanding why I was taking pictures of the exhibits for a long time (I was shooting the texture of objects for graphic design), decided to make a remark, she had to speak irritably in Russian.))
On the minus ground floor there is not a large, but beautiful exposition of gold products. Again, with poorly exposed lighting, it is difficult to see the details, as a rule, they are placed in front of magnifying glasses.
I zoomed in on the image with my phone, then you can look at it in detail.
The last floor of the museum of "Soviet Accoupation" evokes an ironic smile and misunderstanding, in the center there are portraits of Stalin and Beria, Georgians by nationality. A logical question arises: Who has accuped whom?))) Considering, with all due respect to Stalin's personality, how many Soviet and Russian people died in the Gulag because of the actions of the Georgians hanging in their portraits in the center.
The ticket costs 30 bins.
You can go to see it, but you won't get information from history or nature without a guided tour in Russian.
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