Mikheil Javakhishvili House Museum
Address: 21, M. Javakhishvili street, 0105, Tbilisi
Phone: (+995 32) 920 367
web-site: www.tbilisi.gov.ge/museums
Date of establishment: 1997
Judicial Status of the Museum: Municipal/Municipality of Tbilisi
Type (profile): Literature
Quantity of stored items: 1500
Museum collection description: The museum - former apartment of the famous Georgian writer Mikheil Javakhishvili (1880-1937) houses materials of writer’s life and work. These are: private things and photos, library, posters and other documents which reflect hard life of creative personality (Mikheil Javakhishvili was executed during Stalin's Great Purge and shot in 1937).
Working hours: Everyday, except Saturday and Sunday,11.00 – 17.00
Ticket price: free
Expositions: “Childhood and adolescence”, “Revived Heroes”
Educational programmes: “Mikheil Javakhishvili National idea”, “Publications of Mikheil Javakhishvili”, “Mikheil Javakhishvili and totalitarian epoch”, “Georgian literature on the of border of modernism and realism”
Publications: Booklet of museum, Rusudan Javakhishvili “Illustrated Biographies”, writer’s album,
Complete works of writer (in process of publication).
Total space of the museum: 115 m²
Annual quantity of visitors: 1450
Museum building’s status: Immovable monument of Cultural Heritage (The order # 3/181, 2007 of Minister of Ministry of Culture and Monuments Protection of Georgia)
35.3x50.8, mirror, metal, oil, aluminium paper, 1925
