Batumi Archaeological Museum
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Batumi Archaeological Museum - is one of the main cultural attractions of the city. The Archaeological Museum is located in a small two-story building on the street Chavchavadze.

The museum, which has a century, was opened to the public in 1994. Since its opening, it has become one of the best archaeological museums of not only the city, but the whole of Georgia. The museum's collection consists of over 22,800 items, most of which is occupied by the finds from the excavations carried out on the territory of Adjara.

Besides the exhibition in the Batumi archaeological museum also has a restoration laboratory, in which the photographic and graphic are fixed, all stored in museum collections exhibits. In addition, the museum worked as a research library and photo archive.

The interior of the museum is a huge room with two floors. Studying exposure is best to start from the second floor, because this is where the exhibits are stored Stone and Iron Ages. Most of the artifacts of the Iron Age items constitute Colchic tribal culture.

The first floor of the museum contains exhibits relating to the ancient period, as well as early and late Middle Ages. Many of the exhibits were discovered by archaeologists during excavations in the ancient and medieval fortifications Adjara. Here visitors can see a collection of Greek and Roman glassware ancient times, Roman and Greek coins.

Among the exhibits of antique and Roman periods in the Batumi archaeological museum are various objects found during archaeological excavations in the Gonio fortress. Also included are items from "Gonio hoard", sculptures, ancient jewelry, bronze and glassware. In addition, the museum exposition is represented by a hoard of Khelvachauri, which indicates the contacts of Adjara with the Arab world in the early Middle Ages, and exhibits of the late Middle Ages, at a time when Adjara fell into the power of the Ottoman Empire.

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