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Museums, shopping malls and indoor family fun for when the weather turns.

Museums & galleries

Museums and galleries

History, art and the region’s heritage under one roof.

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Museums & galleries

Batumi Archaeological Museum

Small archaeological museum on Chavchavadze Street showing finds from excavation sites in the region.

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Museums & galleries

Batumi Ilia Chavchavadze Museum

ილია ჩავჩავაძის სახელობის მუზეუმი

Museum at 5 Griboedov Street in Batumi, open daily from 10 AM to 6 PM.

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Museums & galleries

Ajara Art Museum

ხელოვნების მუზეუმი

Batumi's state art museum, showing 19th–20th-century Georgian and European painting in a 1949 building.

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Museums & galleries

Batumi Aquarium

აკვარიუმი

Historic public aquarium opened in 1966, showing Black Sea and exotic fish species.

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Museums & galleries

Khariton Akhvlediani Museum of Ajara (Adjara State Museum)

ხარიტონ ახვლედიანის სახელობის მუზეუმი

One of Georgia's oldest museums, founded 1908, holding about 180,000 items on Adjara's history and nature.

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Museums & galleries

Georgian Village Ethnographic Museum

ქართული სოფელი ეთნოგრაფიული მუზეუმი

Open-air ethnographic museum at 14 Sharashidze Street in Batumi, showing traditional Adjarian and Georgian village life, open daily from 10 AM to 5:30 PM.

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Indoor fun

Shows and indoor fun

Places marked as indoor: aquarium, dolphinarium, theatre, circus and more.

Family fun

Batumi Dolphinarium

ბათუმის დელფინარიუმი

Marine animal park in Batumi Central Park at 51 Rustaveli Avenue, with dolphin shows, swim-with-dolphin sessions and a small aquarium.

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Landmarks

Batumi Ilia Chavchavadze State Drama Theatre

ბათუმის დრამატული თეატრი

Classical-style 1937 theatre in Batumi's old centre, home to Adjara's main drama company.

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Landmarks

Circus

ცირკი

Circus building on Nikoloz Baratashvili Street in Batumi, used as a live music and event venue and for circus shows.

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Malls & markets

Shopping under a roof

Shopping malls and covered markets.

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Malls & markets

Batumi Mall

ბათუმი მოლი

Four-level shopping mall on Zurab Gorgiladze Street with a large supermarket on the ground floor.

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Malls & markets

Metro City Forum AVM

Shopping mall on Lech and Maria Kaczynski Street with clothing shops, a supermarket and a food court.

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Malls & markets

Grand Mall

გრანდ მოლი

Large shopping mall on Sherif Khimshiashvili Street near the beach, with a food court and many shops.

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Malls & markets

AgroHub

აგროჰაბი

Large hypermarket on Bagrationi Street that reviewers praise for its wide, well-organised range.

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Malls & markets

Hopa Bazar

Ხოფას Ბაზრობა

Sprawling covered market on Agmashenebeli Street selling everything from local produce to clothes.

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Malls & markets

Batumi Plaza

პლაზა

Older shopping centre on Chavchavadze Street known for gold and silver jewellery and phone repair shops.

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