Museums of Samegrelo
and Zemo Svaneti
Poti Museum of Colchian Culture
Address:9, 26 May Str., Poti
Phone:(+995 493) 2 35 02
Working hours:Everyday, except Monday, 10.00 - 18.00
Date of establishment:1933
The museum is located in building, built in 1908. The museum funds represent archaeological discoveries of the historical Kolkheti (Cholcha, at the present – West Georgia), the chronological frames of the collections are III Millennium B.C. – VII-VIII c.c. A.D. There are significant collection objects made of non-ferrous metals (from antiquity up to medieval times), numismatic collection (gold coins of Alexander the Great, Justinian, Cholchian tetri); silver bowl with the images of birds; ethnographic collection (end of the XIX c. – beginning of the XX c.); documents and photographs of the history of Poti. Branch: Niko Nikoladze Museum (Poti).
Museums of Samegrelo aand Zemo-Svaneti