Abkhazian State Museum, located in the city of Sukhumi on Leon Avenue - is one of the best places where you can get acquainted in detail with the history and the present of the Republic of Abkhazia. The museum is composed of two branches. One of them is located in Gudauta, and the second - in the regions of Abkhazia Gulripshi.

Abkhazian State Museum was established in the first half of the 60s. XIX century. lovers of history and nature of Abkhazia, which were collected from local residents valuable archaeological, numismatic and ethnographic materials. However, before the Russian-Turkish war of the first collection of the museum was moved from Abkhazia and lost.

In 1913, the initiative group decided to set up in the city of Sukhumi society, has been studying the history of this region and the collection of valuable materials. In 1915, thanks to the "society" began to gradually formed the first museum. In May 1917 it held its official opening. And today one of the main directions of the State Museum - is the collection and processing of new materials and exhibits to replenish the museum's collection.

In the history of the Abkhazian state museum he managed to gather a lot of values. His collection has grown and is now in its funds has more than 100 thousand. Unique exhibits.

The museum presents the historical, archaeological, natural and ethnographic exhibits. Most of them are unique and invaluable. For example, in the garden of the museum it is his pride - one of esherskih dolmens (ancient tombstones, which are found throughout the territory of Abkhazia). Also here you can see a complex of dwellings, visually recreate the traditional living conditions of ordinary Abkhaz families. In the halls of the museum kept tombstone V century. BC, a rich collection of weapons, Greek warrior helmet and more. In the department of nature presented paleontological collection of minerals in the region, specimens of flora and fauna of Abkhazia and the Black Sea.