Museums
of Mtskheta-Mtianeti
Stephantsminda Museum of History
Address:2, Al, Kazbegi str., Stephantsminda
Phone:(+995) 590 880 111
Working hours:Everyday, except Monday, 10.00 – 17.00
Date of establishment:1934
The museum building used to be memorial house of well-known Georgian writer Alexander Kazbegi (1848-1890). There are kept personal belongings and library of the writer, and ethnographic and craft collections of material culture, documents characteristic for Khevi (name of the mountainous region) and more widely – for Caucasian culture, for example household objects, accessories, crockery, kilims, saddle-bags (XIX c. and beginning of the XX c.), archaeological collection (numismatics, fragments of weapons and implements, adornments, decorations, earthenware, etc.), religious objects, works of local artists.
Museums of Mtskheta-Mtianeti