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The open air Museum of

Georgian Folk Architecture and Daily Life (also known as the Ethnographic

Museum) extends on 52 hectares and includes

traditional architectural

exponents from different regions of Georgia. The

museum is named after Giorgi Chitaia, a Georgian

ethnographer, who founded the museum (1966)

Kakheti Giorgitsminda hall-house

Guests of the house are hosted by head of the family and mistress, they will tell short story of family, traditions and craft-making. Interior is designed in folk style, including fresh products. In the yard there are presented old agricultures, such as: Corn, flax, chick-pea, and more.

Giorgitsminda hall-house was moved to the

Open Air Museum of Ethnography in

1974, from the village

Giorgitsminda (East Georgia)

Guests of the house are hosted

by head of the family and

mistress, they will tell short story of family, traditions and craft-making.

Interior is designed in folk style, including

fresh products. In the yard there are

presented old agricultures, such

as: Corn, flax, chick-pea, and

more.

The exhibition features a

collection of traditional

household articles such as distaffs, knitting-frames, chums, clothes, carpets, pottery

and furniture

Diplipito (musical instrument) Gozauri (vessel for wine)

DaggerDagger (xanjali)

Dagger

Azarfesha (for the wine)

Belt

Chinchila (vessel for wine)

Decorative sheep, Persian Gozauri (vessel for wine)

JugChangi - musical instrument

Changi - musical instrumentPot

Cradle Jug

Jug (ritual vessel for drinking wine) Djara, mechanical tool for weaving

Horn (for the wine)

Horn (for the wine) Kula (vessel for beer)

SachecheliMarani, ritual vessel for drinking wine

Apkhiartsa (Abkhazian musical instrument)

Sadgvebeli (vessel for making butter) Jug

Stamp printed by Ussr/Russia shows Georgian traditional musical instruments

Sandals for Avarian Women Sandals for men

Shnakvi (implement for harvesting)

Kharkhara (vessel for wine)Ram ritual vessel for drinking wine

Tagrutsi (wooden box for keeping small things)Lamp

Chest

Tagrutsi (wooden box for keeping small things)

Chest

Chest

Dolmens in the Ethnographical Open-Air Museum

An 11th section of the museum

has been established to

house archaeological

monuments such as sculpted

gravestones, ancient

inscriptions, and capitals

Darbazi from the village Teliani XIX

This rectangular unpartitioned dwelling is

distinguished by a hearth in the middle and a smoke and

light hole in the top. The beehive cupola (gvirgvini)

that ascends to that hole is the most extraordinary feature of the dwelling.

The two main supporting pillars, called dedabodzi (mother pilars), are often

ornately carved

Believed to go back to a prototype from the third millennium ВС, darbazi dwellings were described by Vitruvius in his treatise on architecture from the first century ВС. The building and dome that he mentions are close enough to a darbazi dwelling to make us feel that the structure has developed uninterrupted in Georgia right up to its present form. 

The beehive dome you see here is composed of 452 beams resting on each other in concentric layers. 

The baniani sakhli from the village of Khandaki is

smaller, with only one pillar in the room.

The columns are the most significant part of the building, not only in terms of construction but also for context and decoration. Therefore, they are called deda bodzi, which means “main (mother) pillar.” The significance of the main pillars is emphasized by the astral designs carved on them

Museum publication:Traditional Ways of Carpentry and Museum Restoration

Georgian national dance performance at the Museum

Oda house from Samegrelo

The ethnographers

house

Wattled fence and a roofed gate of an oda house from

Samegrelo

The ethnographers house

In western Georgia, the yard is divided into two parts. The front yard is called a “clean yard.” A big, clean and well-groomed yard is a source of great pride. The yard behind the house is called a “black yard,” with space for farm buildings and vegetable gardens.

Oda house from Samegrelo Open porch running along the width of the facade. Beautifully carved wooden pillars usually support the roof of the veranda.

Oda house from Samegrelo

Oda house from Samegrelo

The Open Air Museum of Ethnography is located at

Vake Park.

A Kvevri is a large (800-3500 litres) earthenware vessel originally from Georgia in the Caucasus and dating back to about 8000 BC

The kvevri has an inside coat of beeswax, resembles an amphora without handles and is used for the fermentation and storage of wine, often buried below ground level or set into the floors of large wine cellars. The kvevri is part of traditional Georgian wine making. In the past it was also used for storing grain, butter, cheese, vodka, marinades and a host of perishable foodstuffs, though it was developed primarily for wine making in Georgia. Such large ceramic storage vessels were made in many countries, though none can claim the central importance of large ceramic vessels for wine fermentation

Qvevri brush made from the bark of bitter cherry tree

Qvevri brush made of the roots of St.John's Wort

Founder of the museum, the

famous ethnographer Giorgi

Chitaia, has recreated whole

country in miniature. The houses are not replicas but have

been moved piece by piece from their

native villages

Interior of the Mosque from Chikuneti Village of the Khelvachauri District of Ajara, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture in Tbilisi

Interior of the Mosque from Chikuneti Village of the Khelvachauri District of Ajara, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture in Tbilisi

Text: Internet

Pictures: Sanda Foişoreanu

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu

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Sound: Satrfialo - Traditional Georgian Love Song performed by Rustavi ensemble and famous Georgian Tenor Lado Tandilahvili