Khariton Akhvlediani Adjara state museum

Khariton Akhvlediani Adjara state museum - Museum in Batumi, founded in 1908.

Ajara State Museum is one of the oldest scientific-educational institutions in Georgia. There are 180,000 exhibits kept here: unique items, collections, photos, pieces of art.  Over 2,000 rare manuscripts are kept in Georgian, Russian, Armenian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian and other languages. The Museum Library holds 63,000 books in different languages. Among them are many rare bibliographical books.

Unique archaeological materials from XII - IX centuries BC are preserved in the museum, also from VII - IV centuries: Ancient Greek Black Krater, Engraved Axes, Bronze Aries, Gonio Treasures - depicted by Aphrodite and Eros, gold engraving bowl of I-II c. gold belt fragments, various materials made by beads, brooch, religious sculptures (bronze), the decoration of the box with oak leaves and fruit image fragments.  The list goes on with rare monuments of nature (including a fossilized 25 million-year-old tree), ethnographic and folk patterns, manuscripts, applied and visual art examples from XIX-XX centuries.