23 August – 20 September, 2010

The Georgian National Museum presents Niko Piromania’s exhibition in the Adjara Museum of Arts.

 Visitors will be able to see fifteen paintings of the world-known Georgian painter.

The official partner of the exhibition is the insurance company “GPI Holding.”

The exhibition was organized by The Georgian National Museum, Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Adjara and the Adjara Museum of Arts.

On August 20, 2010, the Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography in Mestia hosted a presentation of the project, “Safeguarding and Conservation of the Unique Objects, Medieval Manuscripts and Icons from Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography,” sponsored by the U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation. U.S. Ambassador John Bass and Georgian National Museum Director Davit Lordkipanidze presided over the presentation.

 The U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation was founded by the U.S. Congress. The AFPC has supported more than 640 projects in over 100 countries across the world. This accomplishment, now 10 years in the making, represents a contribution of nearly $26 million towards the preservation of cultural heritage worldwide. More importantly, it shows the depth of our nation’s respect for the cultural heritage of other countries.

On August 17, the Dmanisi Museum of the National Museum of Georgia presented new archeological discoveries.

Remnants of buried hominids and animals and stone instruments belong to 1.7-1.8 million years. The discovery has changed the strongly imbedded idea of hominid resettlement from Africa and moved the Euro-Asian colonization date back by thousands of years. Presently, the Dmanisi discoveries have gained wide international recognition.In 2010 the hominid collection has been wider enriched. It gained new parts of hominid skeletons, also well-preserved sculls of extricated animals.

Georgian National Museum’s important group of objects is presented at the exhibition of “Vinum Nostrum” at the Palazzo degli Argenti in Florence from July 20th, 2010 until May 15th, 2011.  An earthenware vase on display is from the sixth or fifth millenium BCE. Some dark colored vases placed nearby come from around 3400 to 2000 BCE. These are the earliest known objects used for containing wine, the first evidence of a stable viticulture and the analogous process of animal domestication. 

Conviviality and drunkenness, door to spirituality and frowned-upon habit. The development of wine and wine costumes is taken into consideration from Mesopotamia to our days, passing through the positive and negative behaviors that this ancient beverage produces on human costumes and spirit. With the aid of videos and multimedia installations, original pieces, sculptures, mosaics and frescoes tell the story that grapevine and of wine have had through the millennia. Thanks to the exhibit the important influence of wine on ancient peoples is underlined.

 4 July – 25 August, 2010

 

The Georgian National Museum presents the exhibition “Georgian Jews – their history and culture”.

 

The exhibition is kind of a repercussion of the endeavor of Jerusalem Ben Tsvi Institute, which organized international conference: “Georgian Jews – Their history and culture”.

 The exhibition displayed paintings, drawings of national clothes, photos, religion and domestic items were kept at the Georgian National Museum, the National Manuscripts Centre and Mtskheta Museum.

The Georgian National Museum invites visitors to see the reconstructed 1.8 million year old girl at Dmanisi                    Museum-Reserve from June 27.

The French sculptor Elisabeth Daynes has reconstructed the whole body of the girl, who would have been aged around 13 or 14, on the basis of its bones, found at Dmanisi in 2001.

 Dmanisi archaeological site is a unique field museum located at the excavation site in Georgia. With its architecture Dmanisi preserves world famous archeological layers, provides favorable conditions for scientific studies and caters to broad public interests.

The

Georgian National Museum and the National Museums to Berlin, Foundation Prussian Cultural Heritage are going to start the EU Twinning project “Support to the Institutional Development of the Georgian National Museum” from the mid of June. This is the first Twinning project in the field of the cultural sector.

  

It belongs to the principal purposes of the project to strengthen the Georgian National Museum as an institution which is enabled to speed up culture as an essential component by the development of Georgia. For this it is laid within the Twinning project value on the systematic introduction of the best practices in the activities of the Georgian National Museum – particularly on the fields of museum’s buildings planning, collection removal and the restoration and conservation of objects. With the collaboration within the scope of this Twinning project a unique possibility arises in the collaboration between two cultural facilities of national importance. 

We would like to invite you to the kick off meeting, which will be held on the June, 22^nd in the Georgian National Museum in Georgia from 11.00 a.m.

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