Tbilisi History Museum — Attraction in Tbilisi

The museum is located in a renovated historic Caravanserai (a roadside inn which supported the flow of commerce, where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey). This building is very beautiful, you can picture the way it was centuries ago. Customer service is poor and the staff show little interest in assisting you. They had no change, I had to go and locate change for a 20 lari note. I waited approximately 20 minutes to purchase a ticket. I ask where to start. She pointed to basement. BEWARE. Basement is private businesses. The staff on the museum floor appear to be former prison guards. Always eyeballing you. They have a lot of miniature structures on display of the types of living structures, government buildings etc. Some of the items such as the cannons, guns, swords and knives lack the information I like to see, year, maker or company, country of origin. The last exhabits is lacking information, appears to be the daily work of herders in the mountains. For the cost it's a...

The Tbilisi History Museum was founded in 1910 as the City Municipal Museum. More recently, it was given the name of the famous Georgian poet Ioseb Grishashvili. Since 1984, the Tbilisi History Museum has been located in a restored caravanserai, representing the city's historic role as a Silk Road trading outpost.

The museum houses over fifty thousand artifacts. They reflect Tbilisi's history from the end of the 4 millennium BCE to the present day. The museum presents archeological, ethnological and archival materials as well as the pieces of national and applied arts, and a rich photo-collection. A number of unique works of artistic and graphic arts are also preserved in this museum.

Together with older works, the museum also exhibits pieces of contemporary art. Since 1986, many exhibitions of Georgian and foreign artists have been displayed...

The museum entrance costs 5 Lari and you have to pay for separate ticket to the wine museum in the basement (10-15 Lari). The building is cool same as the area.

We saw random old stuff in the exhibition with model of old buildings. Most of them has no explanation of what it is besides a label that says umbrella, shoes, traditional clothes. So it was interesting to see but didn't really learn anything.

The art upstairs was disappointing. We spent 3 minutes or something there.

Downstairs is the coolest part with all the interesting stuff, but the whole floor is basically a souvenir shop. We didn't get to see anything since the person there follow you REALLY close and jump in on all the conversation to try to sell something. Some of the stuff they sell look like ones from exhibition (ex: old bank notes)

I wouldn't go back or...