Tbilisi Open Air Museum of Ethnography

The museum is named after Giorgi Chitaia , a Georgian ethnographer, who based the museum on 27 April 1966. Since December 30, 2004, it has been administered as part of the Georgian National Museum. The museum is located west to Turtle Lake on a hill overlooking the Vake district, Tbilisi. It is largely a historic village populated with the aid of buildings moved there from all important territorial subdivisions of Georgia. The museum occupies fifty two hectares of land and is arranged in eleven zones, showing round 70 homes and extra than 8,000 objects. The exhibition.

features the traditional darbazi-type and fiat-roofed stone houses from japanese Georgia, openwork wooden houses with gable roofs of straw or forums from western Georgia, watchtowers from the mountainous provinces of Khevsureti, Pshavi, and Svaneti, Megrelian and Imeretian wattle maize storages, Kakhetian wineries marani, and Kartlian water turbines as well as a collection of conventional family articles which include distaffs, knitting-frames, pals, garments, carpets, pottery and fixtures.