Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts

The museum contains collections obtained from the Society for the Promotion of Literacy, ecclesiastical and historical-ethnographic museums of Georgia, the national gallery, the museum of ancient Georgian art and Metekhi. There is also a treasure temporarily exported to France by the Menshevik government in 1921 in 1945. The total number of exhibits exceeds 40 thousand. The Museum houses the best-known samples of Georgian artwork. The permanent exhibitions display artworks from medieval times up to the twentieth century, there are also some collections of pre-Christian times. The Museum is distinguished for its Georgian goldsmith pieces dated back to the VIII-XIX Centuries. Also unique are the exhibits of cut-enamel, jewelry and art textiles from VIII-XV cc. The funds of Georgian art are kept samples of medieval architecture fragments, wall painting, mosaic, sculpture, icons, woodcuts. The museum stores the works of famous Georgian artists Niko Pirosmanishvili (146 items), Gigo Gabashvili, Iakob Nikoladze, Lado Gudiashvili, Elene Akvlediani, David Kakabadze, and others. The museum also hosts collections of XVIII-XIX c.c. Russian, Western Europe and Oriental (parently Persian) artworks.