Borjomi Museum of Local Lore
Borjomi Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Georgia. It was opened in 1926 and has been operating for 80 years. The building where the Museum is located was built in 1890 and is unique both for the materials used in its constructions and for its architecture, too. Today there are 36,000 different historical articles preserved in the collections of the Museum. There are four stationary exhibitions:
1. The Local Nature of Borjomi;2. Archeological Finds; 3. Historical and Ethnographical Departament; 4. Applied Art.
Here you can find interesting samples of the flora and fauna of the Borjomi gorge, photos and other documents testifying to the high quality of Borjomi medicinal mineral waters. You can examine important findings from archeological excavations in the area, such as: stone tools of primitive men, cultural monuments of the Bronze Age, agricultural tools, artistic accessories, etc. Additionally, there are samples of ceramics dating as far back as the XXX-X c.c. B.C. It is noteworthy that most of the ceramics, glass, bronze, china, wood-carvings of the 18-19th c.c. belonged to the Russian Royal Family – the Romanovs who owned some holiday palaces in Borjomi.
Borjomi Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Georgia. It was opened in 1926 and has been operating for 80 years. The building where the Museum is located was built in 1890 and is unique both for the materials used in its constructions and for its architecture, too. Today there are 36,000 different historical articles preserved in the collections of the Museum. There are four stationary exhibitions:
1. The Local Nature of Borjomi;2. Archeological Finds; 3. Historical and Ethnographical Departament; 4. Applied Art.
Here you can find interesting samples of the flora and fauna of the Borjomi gorge, photos and other documents testifying to the high quality of Borjomi medicinal mineral waters. You can examine important findings from archeological excavations in the area, such as: stone tools of primitive men, cultural monuments of the Bronze Age, agricultural tools, artistic accessories, etc. Additionally, there are samples of ceramics dating as far back as the XXX-X c.c. B.C. It is noteworthy that most of the ceramics, glass, bronze, china, wood-carvings of the 18-19th c.c. belonged to the Russian Royal Family – the Romanovs who owned some holiday palaces in Borjomi.