The Tbilisi History Museum was founded in 1910 as a City Municipal Museum.Lately it was given the name of the famous Georgian poet Ioseb Grishashvili.
Since 1984 the Tbilisi History Museum’s been placed in the building of “Karvasla”.
The museum houses over 50 thousand exhibits. They reflect Tbilisi history from the end of the IV millennium to this date.
The museum presents archeological, ethnological and documental materials as well as the pieces of national and applied arts, a rich photo-collection etc. A number of unique works of artistic and graphic arts are also preserved in this museum.Together with the old works the museum also exposes the pieces of contemporary art.
Since 1986 many exhibitions of Georgian and Foreign artists have been exposing in the museum.
