State Art Museum of Adjara ( ka, აჭარის ხელოვნების სახელმწიფო მუზეუმი) is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

in the city of

Batumi Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ) is the second largest city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia's southwest. It is situated in a subtropical zone at the foot of th ...

Adjara Adjara ( ka, აჭარა ''Ach’ara'' ) or Achara, officially known as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara ( ka, აჭარის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა ''Ach’aris Avt’onomiuri Resp’ublik’a'' ...

, Georgia.

Museum collection

The museum houses paintings of native Georgian as well as foreign artists. Museum collection has works of

Niko Pirosmani Niko Pirosmani ( ka, ნიკო ფიროსმანი ''Nik’o Pirosmani''), Mononymous person, simply referred to as Nikala (ნიკალა ''Nik’ala''; 1862–1918), was a Georgians, Georgian painter who posthumously rose to pro ...

David Kakabadze Davit' Kakabadze ( ka, დავით კაკაბაძე) (August 20, 1889 – May 10, 1952) was a leading Georgian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and scenic designer. A multi-talent, he was also an art scholar and innovator in the fie ...

Lado Gudiashvili Lado Gudiashvili ( ka, ლადო გუდიაშვილი; 30 March 1896 – 20 July 1980) was a Georgian artist of the 20th century. Gudiashvili was born into a family of a railroad employee. He studied in the Tbilisi school of sculp ...

Elene Akhvlediani Elene Akhvlediani () (April 5, 1898 in Telavi – December 30, 1975 in Tbilisi) was a 20th-century Georgian painter, graphic artist, and theater decorator. Akhvlediani is famous for her depictions of Georgian towns, for her illustrations for t ...

Stefan Bakałowicz Stefan Bakałowicz (russian: Степан Бакалович) (17 October 1857 – 1947) was a Polish painter from Warsaw, famous in the Russian Empire. He was noted for his paintings on the subjects of Ancient Rome. From 1936 he was a memb ...

, A. Zommer,

Nikoloz (Koka) Ignatov Nikoloz (Koka) Ignatov ( ka, ნიკოლოზ (კოკა) იგნატოვი) (July 29, 1937 – May 6, 2002) was a 20th-century Georgian painter. He studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts The Tbilisi State Academy of Arts ...

, A. Zankovski and drawing made by N. Churgulia,

Rusudan Petviashvili Rusudan Petviashvili ( ka, რუსუდან ფეტვიაშვილი; (born 25 January 1968), Tbilisi, Georgia) – Georgian artist, graphic artist. Creates paintings using unique technique: total image is performed in one-touch. P ...

, L. Zambakhidze, G. Tsereteli etc. Sculptures are represented by E. Pantareli's “Nymph and a Little Faun”, Irakli Ochiauri’s “Portrait” and others.

Decorative art ] The decorative arts are arts or crafts whose object is the design and manufacture of objects that are both beautiful and functional. It includes most of the arts making objects for the interiors of buildings, and interior design, but not usual ...

collection has many works of ceramics,

woodcuts Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that ...

, glasswork, engravings,

tapestry Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike most woven textiles, where both the warp and the weft threads may ...

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Museum collection

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