Museums & galleries
Ajara Art Museum
აჭარის ხელოვნების მუზეუმი
Batumi's state art museum, showing 19th–20th-century Georgian and European painting in a 1949 building.
The Ajara Art Museum opened on 19 December 1998 in a historic Batumi building that architect Kakha Javakhishvili designed in 1949. Its façade carries a relief frieze by sculptor Tamar Abakelia, and inside, a grand central staircase rises under a decorative stained-glass ceiling. A new gallery opened in 2015, and the permanent exhibition was renewed in January 2023.
The first floor shows 19th-century European masters such as Richard Sommer and Gabriel Schachinger. The second floor traces Georgian art through Niko Pirosmani, Lado Gudiashvili, David Kakabadze, Elene Akhvlediani and other Georgian painters.
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Good to know
- The museum's website offers a virtual tour if you want to preview the collection.
Sources
Facts checkedFacts checked by Kartvelio on 20 October 2026.
- Ajara Art Museum – Ajara Museums (official), consulted on 20 October 2026
