S.Janashia State Museum of Georgia

Address:

State Museum of Georgia
Rustaveli ave.3
380007,Tbilisi
Georgia
Tel: 99-80-22
Fax: 98-21-29
E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Date of foundation:
1952, Date of joining the Academy of sciences - 1941 (In 1903-1918 it was a member of Russian Imperial Academy)

Main field of scientific activity, its problems:
Problems of the History of Georgia and Caucasus; The vegetable and animal kingdom, evolutional and oecological principles of its protection and development; Research of the principles of origin and natural development of geosphere structures in Georgia and neighbouring regions; Problems of environment and foundation of scientific basis for exposure and rational use of natural resources.

Director:
Levan Chilashvili Doctor of History, Professor, Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Academician S.Djanashia Prize Laureate, Honoured Scientist of the Republic of Georgia.

Associate Members of the Georgian Academy of Sciences:
Parmen Zakaraia.
The Museum has 10 Doctors of Sciences and 65 Candidates (in Museum branches - 6 Candidates).

Scientific contacts with foreign countries, join projects:

Museum has scientific contacts with the former USSR Research Institutions (State Hermitage, Anthropological and Ethnographic Museums of Miklukho-Maklay, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, State Museum of History (Moscow), Russian Archaeological Institute, Armenian Historical Museum and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Baku Museum of History and Institute of History etc.).

Museum co-operates as well with Archaeological Department of California University, Harvard University, British and Louvre Museums.

Museum has close contacts with Melbourne (Australia) and Saarbrucken Universities, Wells College. With the help of Saarbrucken Museum and University in 1995-1996 our Museum organized in Germany (Saarbrucken, Munick and Dresden) a big exhibition "To the Way of Golden Fliece - Archaeological Finds from Georgia", which had a great success.

Museum participates in archaeological expeditions of the USA and Israel Hibrow University Centres.

Museum's periodical publications:

• Georgian State Museum's "Moambe" A and B, which was regularily published till 1991;
• Archaeological Expeditions of the Georgian State Museum (8 volumes are issued, not published after 1988).

Other Important Information:
Museum has three Branches - Samtskhe-Javakheti Historical Museum of Iv.Javakhishvili (Akhaltsikhe); Zugdidi Historical Museum - Zugdidi Sciehtific Centre; and Svaneti Historical - ethnographic Museum (Mestia).

Letter to the World Archaeological Institutions, Societies, Private Persons!

Dear Sirs,

The group of archaeologists at the Djanashia Georgian State Museum at the Georgian Academy of Sciences addresses you for the following purposes priorily compromised this issue with the Direction of the Museum.
Within the years we had been holding archaeological excavations at the significant sites. Today all these researches have been already ceased (find attached the list of archaeological sites). The rest of the researhes cover the bulk of archaeological excavations at the above mentioned sites. Our proposal deals with the renewing of these excavations jointly with the foreign colleages. The excavated sites can be selected or specified due to their contextual data. Today, through the slender budget of Georgian scientific institutions these excavations are cut off money supply. Therefore it would be very good if our counterparts abroad set forth officialy their consent to participate in such joint researches through their money supply and selection of forthcoming archaeological site or sites. All these will be legalized on a base of appropriate agreement which will entitle the foreign counterpart to excavate the selected site, gain archaeological data, learn them out, publish scientific papers and hold the exhibitions.

1. The settlements of early Bronze Age of the so called Mtkvari-Araks culture (the second half of the 4th millennium B.C. - first half of the 3rd millennium B.C. accompanied with the cultural strata of later epoches.
2. The artificial hillocks used for settlements in Kolkhet (the Western Georgia) with the setllements of the period of Antiquity. The 2nd millennium B.C. - first half of the 1st millennium B.C.
3. The industrial settlements of the West Georgia (Mulhuroha, Archaeopolis, Ochkhamuri) with the mass manufacturing of staind glass and metal.
4. The burial mound, burial grounds and settlements of the 7th-4th centuries B.C. in the ecutral areas of Georgia.
5. The archaeological monuments of the early feudal epoch of the 1st millenennium A.D. from Nokalakevi (the capital of the Western Georgian Kiugdom) and Nekresi (one of the royal residencies of the Eastern Georgian Kingdom).

On the behalf of the group of an archaeologist
Davit Lomitashvili,
Georgian State Museum Deputy Director

Georgian State Museum,
3, Rustaveli Ave
Tbilisi, Georgia, 380007
Phone: (+ 995 32) 99-80-13
Fax: (+ 995 32) 98-21-29

Information provided by Irine Kuprashvili <[email protected]>

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