Ozurgeti History Museum

The Ozurgeti History Museum is a historical-ethnographic museum located in Ozurgeti. It is the biggest museum in the Guria region.

WWW muzeumi.ozurgeti.info

History

The museum was founded on 1 April 1936. Its first director was Nicholas Samsonia. In the years 1974-91 museum was situated in Gurieli Palace building.

Exhibition

The museum hosts collections from Neolithic Age, unique examples of Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age Colkhian culture, burial ground stocks from Iron Age, ancient silver and golden items, numismatic, ethnographic, archival books of historical value. Nowadays museum collections consists of more than 6000 exhibits, dated from the 9th millennium BC until today, including Napoleon Bonaparte`s rapier.
Museum is open daily 10:00-18:00. Entry is free.

Structure

In 2007 museum was established by the local self-government as the non-commercial legal entity. Currently it has three branches - Ethnographic Museum in Dvabzu, Memorial Museum in Gurianta and Ekvtime Takaishvili Archaeological Museum in Likhauri.