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    Journal "Museum". №2, 2015: There is a regional museum in almost every municipal city in Georgia. Created during the Soviet period, these museums were usually established by people who were passionate about the region and loved old things and who collected museum objects with great enthusiasm, with the understanding that they were doing something necessary for the country and for future generations. Objects were acquired through private donations from antique lovers, sometimes by transfer of collections or replicas from the State Museum of Georgia, paintings or drawings from a Georgian painting collection – or sometimes archaeological expeditions working in a given region would give objects to local museums. Thanks to all of this, regional museums have collected interesting artifacts of exceptional importance to our country's history.

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    Journal "Museum". №2, 2015: There is a regional museum in almost every municipal city in Georgia. Created during the Soviet period, these museums were usually established by people who were passionate about the region and loved old things and who collected museum objects with great enthusiasm, with the understanding that they were doing something necessary for the country and for future generations. Objects were acquired through private donations from antique lovers, sometimes by transfer of collections or replicas from the State Museum of Georgia, paintings or drawings from a Georgian painting collection – or sometimes archaeological expeditions working in a given region would give objects to local museums. Thanks to all of this, regional museums have collected interesting artifacts of exceptional importance to our country's history.

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    Cooperation
    with Georgia's
    Regional Museums

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    There is a regional museum in almost every municipal city in Georgia. Created during the Soviet period, these museums were usually established by
    people who were passionate about the region and loved old things and who collected museum objects with great enthusiasm, with the understanding
    that they were doing something necessary for the country and for future generations. Objects were acquired through private donations from antique
    lovers, sometimes by transfer of collections or replicas from the State Museum of Georgia, paintings or drawings from a Georgian painting collection or
    sometimes archaeological expeditions working in a given region would give objects to local museums. Thanks to all of this, regional museums have collected
    interesting artifacts of exceptional importance to our country's history.

    ost regional museums of the


    Soviet period were located
    in buildings that were not
    suitable for the purpose. Today, however, regional museums with contemporary exhibitions and correctly
    developed programs can become cultural and educational centers for those regions. Through the involvement
    of the local population for renovating
    the buildings, making souvenirs, producing local goods and so on, these
    establishments can contribute to the
    revival of cultural life and tourist activities in the regions, and to employment for local inhabitants.
    In 2012, the Ministry of Culture and
    Monument Protection and the Tsageri Municipality funded a joint project
    for the Tsageri V. Makharoblidze State
    Museum of History and the Georgian
    National Museum, entitled Tsageri
    Museum of History: Lechkhumi Center
    of Culture and Education (Collections,
    Preparation of Exhibition and Album,
    Educational Program).
    Despite a limited amount of time,
    work on collections was carried out
    museum logbooks were digitized
    according to collections, all metal artifacts were restored and conserved,
    pieces were selected for exhibition
    and catalogue and relevant documents were prepared. By re-zoning
    the building it was possible to arrange
    a space for educational activities and a
    library. Many books were given to the
    renewed Tsageri Museum of History
    by the Georgian National Museum.
    The project concluded with a public
    presentation of the new exhibition, a

    new album, the cultural-educational


    space and the library.
    The Tsageri Museum of History: Lechkhumi Center of Culture and Education was the first project implemented
    as a result of cooperation between
    the Georgian National Museum and
    a regional museum. It was important
    because of the results achieved as
    well as the fact that it created a precedent for cooperation between the
    country's leading museum and a regional museum. A series of lectures
    by the scientists from the Georgian
    National Museum is planned at the
    Tsageri Museum in the nearest future,
    and the publication of the first volume of the collected works of the Tsageri Museum of History with funding
    from the Tsageri Municipality can be
    considered a logical continuation of
    this project. All of this will contribute
    to the improvement of scholarly and
    intellectual development of youth
    interested in the region's past. Plans
    have been made to create a competition to include the works of students
    from high schools and higher educational institutions in subsequent volumes of the collected works.
    As a result of this cooperation,
    close relations were established which form the basis
    for new projects. An open-air
    museum of archaeology and
    ethnography was created in the
    village of Dekhviri under the Tsageri
    Museum of History, complete with the
    medieval fortresses of Dekhviri, where
    the remains of a Colchian settlement
    date to the 8th-5th centuries BC, and

    Earring. Gold. End of the 4th


    century B.C.- 3rd century B.C.
    Tsageri Histoty Museum,
    Georgia

    Pithos child's grave


    discovered near the Muri
    Fortress. End of the 4th-3rd
    century B.C. Tsageri History Museum, Georgia

    Figurine of a bull. Bronze.


    Dekhviri. 8th-7th centuries B.C.
    Tsageri Histoty Museum,
    Georgia

    Sculpture of a rider. Tsageri Hoard. 8th-7th centuries


    B.C. Tsageri Histoty Museum, Georgia

    Ethnographic exhibition. Martvili Museum of Local Lore, Georgia

    Stater. Gold. Alexander of Macedonia


    (336-323 B.C.). Tsageri History Museum, Georgia

    Crosses. Silver, willow. 17th-18th centuries. Tsageri


    History Museum, Georgia

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    GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

    with a cemetery from the period of


    Antiquity. The archaeological artifacts
    discovered at the settlement and from
    the cemetery are kept at the Tsageri
    Museum of History. The Georgian National Museum is also involved in the
    creation of the Dekhviri Museum of
    Archaeology and Ethnography infrastructure.
    In May 2013, the Georgian National
    Museum became involved in another,
    similar project, entitled The Martvili Museum of Local History: Martvili
    Center of Culture and Education. The
    project in Martvili took place over one
    year, when the zoning of the museum
    was changed; the library was filled
    with books collected by the Georgian
    National Museum, placed in the newly
    created Giorgi Chkondideli Center of
    Education. A local wine tasting room
    was created. The same kind of work
    on collections was carried out as with
    the Tsageri Museum of Local History.
    Six exhibition halls were set up
    geology-paleontology, archaeology,
    a numismatics room, frescoes and

    church books. A month-long project


    for their restoration and conservation
    was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection. The remaining three halls are dedicated to
    ethnographic objects and an album,
    The Martvili Museum of Local History,
    was published.
    The most important result of the
    projects carried out is not just the increase in the number of visitors, but
    the fact that both museums have become institutions where exibits are
    presented according to the modern
    standards, equipped educational centers, and the possibility of organizing
    open lessons, conferences or other
    educational and cultural events. Many
    objects in the museum collections are
    now organized to allow new exhibitions and participation in exhibition
    exchanges. The cooperation between
    the Georgian National Museum and
    regional museums is important for the
    revival of regional museums and to
    maintain close and regular interaction
    between the capital and the regions.

    Palm Sunday (The Lord's triumphal entry into Jerusalem).


    80-ies of the 17th century, Martvili, Georgia

    GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

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