☰Khariton Akhvlediani Adjara State Museum

Founded in 1908, the Adjara State Museum is the main historical museum of the region. Its collection covers Bronze Age artefacts through to the early medieval period: engraved bronze axes, the Gonio Treasury's golden jewellery (including a golden phial from the first-second century and pendants depicting Helios), Hellenistic period coins, and a remarkable fossilised tree some 25 million years old. The ethnographic and folk art sections document the distinctive culture of the Adjarian people.