Underground Printing House Museum — Attraction in Tbilisi

The place is history alive, where you can literally touch things that belonged to Stalin. You don’t need to like him or his ideas, as myself, an apolitical person, but it’s unavoidable that this place makes you think about how far a person and his colleagues go for an ideal. The gentleman that guides you through the place is the most excited of the world. There is no fee, but I gave GEL10 per person for his soul. He doesn’t speak English, but we could understand each other, even myself being a Brazilian. The place looks that is not running, but it is and worth the visit. Again, it doesn’t matter if you are not communist, socialist or any other “ist”. Just go there with open mind. Respect, think, then leave. The world runs because of...

You will have goosebumps the moment you enter this place, the times of the past ringing stories in your ears - the old printing machines, Stalin's bed and writing desk, letters from Lenin, very rare photographs and the secret tales of printing the proclamation come alive! The guide, Thomas, is an elderly man who passionately takes you around the museum and explains all that he can in broken English and with a lot of earnestness. He will also hand you a printed paper with the descriptions printed in English that makes it so much easier. He is so kind and helpful, please do visit this place as Georgia cannot be complete without the brilliant history of Stalin, Lenin and of course...

We visited this museum a few years back and it was in much better state than now. Back then we had to pay the entrace fee and you could even buy some souvenirs. There was this crazy older dude guiding us, claimed to be in KGB etc, a bit annoying but at leas passionate about the place.

This year we entered for free and couldn't even really find a place to leave a tip. Staff looked rather uninterested, gave us a piece of paper with a brief history and pretty much left us be. The whole museum is in a state of serious disrepair, even the "new" part and seems like nobody cares. Shame, because it's a really interesting piece of history. I recommend visiting while...