Museums of Samegrelo
and Zemo Svaneti
Chkhorotsku Local Museum
Address:2, Stalini str., Chkhorotsku
Phone:(+995 417) 2 11 03
Working hours:Everyday, except Monday, 10.00 - 17.00
Date of establishment:1978
The museum houses collections of archaeological items discovered by the expeditions and accidentally, chronological frames include Paleolithic, Neolithic (stone axes, etc.), Early, Middle and Late Bronze (Cholchian axes, spearheads, segments of implements, bronze bars, earthenware, IX-VI c.c. B.C. cornelian, pasta, agate, jasper, jet, glass necklaces, the same period burial urns) time periods. Numismatic collection includes Georgian, Roman, Byzantine, Turkish, Russian coins, assignats. Among late feudal period objects are XV-XVI c.c. ecclesiastic books, seals, manuscripts, icons, ornamental details of church decorations.
Museums of Samegrelo aand Zemo-Svaneti