Art Museum of Georgia

The good: The museum has small, but representative collection of Georgian art. The bad: Its almost impossible to use audio guide (we used in Russian). More than HALF of numbers doesn’t match the paintings. I have hard time to understand how you can make so many mistakes. The management just doesn’t care. The worst: I visited art museums in 40-50 countries, including many developing ones, but never encountered so awful LIGHTING. You really can’t enjoy the art! You have to run around the painting trying to find some spot that will allow you to see something. I talked to one of the employees and she confirmed that many people complain. The management doesn’t care for this one as well.

It’s actually 40 lari for foreigners. Small gallery all things considered, super bright glare from all the lights, guy working the reception was so unfriendly and miserable. Only worth the trip if you’ve exhausted everything else to do in Tbilisi.

Too expensive for what it is. The lighting casts a glare on a lot of the artwork, which makes it difficult to see. I wouldn't recommend it if you have to pay tourist/non-student prices. The room with Soviet nonconformist art was awesome. I didn't find the rest of the art particularly engaging, but that's my personal taste.

1. Don't confuse this museum (Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Art) with the National Gallery at 11 Shota Rustaveli Avenue. They are different museums with distinct exhibits, but some photos in reviews for this museum are actually from the National Gallery, not from here. 2. ​Entrance from L. Gudiashvili Street. 3. ​Full admission: 40 GEL. 4. ​Here you'll find: Georgian medieval reliefs, Georgian art 1900–1930 (including 12 works by Pirosmani; as well as Gudiashvili, Akhvlediani, and others), and one floor dedicated to European and Russian art, featuring works by Paolo Veneziano, Jacques-Louis David, Lucas Cranach, van Ruisdael, Kandinsky (2 works), Deineka, Falk (3 works), Rodin (2 works), and more. 5. One hour and a half to two hours will be enough to thoroughly enjoy the exposition. 6. The lighting complaints which I've seen in other reviews are fair in case some of the works, but it's not a disaster, just a minor drawback.

The first impression was negative—the young man on the reception neither even said “hello” nor told us anything, starting with the floor we should start with. Thanks to the guard who helped us, even though it’s not his job. Overall, you can spend an hour, maybe and hour and a half there, you won’t be impressed much but it’s ok to spend some time. The Fine Arts museum is my favorite though. One ticket costs 40 lari.

Breathtaking exhibition, Gudiashvili's honest, naive work left me in tears. Highly recommend a visit here for tourists that want to feel more about Georgias history.

The museum was an amazing experience, with so many paintings to indulge in. Highly recommend visiting if you’re in town, along with the National Museum which is only a 5 minute walk away.

Amazing beautiful museum with a great art collection. From the ancient time to the modernism era. Even having originals of famous gothic era paintings! What is tragically terrible is the personal on the entrance. They just do not care - tickets person just was watching movie on a laptop and paying no attention for us standing right in front of him, near him a huge group of guards was hanging out - yelling, swearing, laughing as they are at the bar, but not on the service duty. Haven't seen such a terrible service for ages.