On November 20th the exhibition “Discoveries from Ancient Colchis” will open in The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Sweden, Stockholm.
The purpose of the first joint exhibition – “Colchian Culture” – organized by the Georgian National Museum and the Stockholm Museum of Mediterranean Culture is to demonstrate, on the basis of archaeological material brought to light in Western Georgia, covering the period of the mid-2nd millennium BC and the entire 1st millennium BC, that Georgia as a country of original culture that maintained intensive cultural contacts with the AncientEast and Greece, today too constitutes an inseparable part of Western civilization. It is safe to say that Georgia has earned this place thanks to Colchian culture and due to the special interest shown by the Greeks in Colchis in the myth of the Argonauts, and later expressed in their literature and historiography.
In 2007 the exhibition of The Golden Graves of Ancient Vanitoured the world, starting with the Altes Museum in Berlin, and then moved on to Paris and Nice. The exhibition continued to museums in Cambridge and Athens before being shown in Washington at the Smithsonian Institution’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art and the New Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in Manhattan. Later the exhibition traveled to Houston, with a final tour of the Getty Center in Malibu’s Getty Villa. In October 2009 the National Heritage is back to Georgia.
The exposition in Stockholm’s museum is conformable continuation of the project The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. Besides the archeological discoveries from Vani in the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities will displayd exhibits from Sairkhe and Nokalakevi.
Georgian National Museum on the exhibition in Stockholm will presents unique 153 exponents 15th BC. – 2nd AD, golden and sliver jewelry,bronze and metal statues, tools, items of everydayuse, cult-ritual items, potterydishes, glass necklaces and vials.
On November 20th , at the The Museum of National Antiquities, Stockholm, General Director of The Georgian National Museum Prof. David Lordkipanidze conducts the public lecture `Discoveries from Dmanisi - first humans outside Africa”.
20 November, 2009 – 14 February, 2010
a. In October 2009 the National Heritage is back to Georgia.
