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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)

Courses of the traditional Georgian Craft 2015

The Sajalabo house was built in the beginnings of the XIX century and is one of the types of Georgian wooden dwelling houses, usually consisted of only one large room. Sometimes it was called godora or pita pitsari, because it was constructed from short and wide board cut with axe. This Sajalabo house belonged to Davitaia family. According to the legend, in XIX centuty master of the family was Dziku Davitaia who built the house. The founder of the Open Air Museum of Ethnography, academician G.Chitaia selected this house as a museum exhibit during his expedition in Samegrelo. The museum bought the house, numbered its component parts, brought to the museum and reconstructed it in 1976. The Ethnoraphy Museum exhibition begins with this house.

 19th century Megrelian "Sajalabo House"

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

Its still not really sure which people or tribe discovered the great invention of wine. However the oldest civilization that is known for its wine drinking were not the Romans or the ancient Greeks, but the Georgians. Georgia has certainly been clever at other times when it comes to marketing its wine. When President Mikhail Saakashvili went to a 2006 summit meeting of the GUAM group of countries -- Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova -- in Kiev, soon after Russia had initiated a boycott on his country's wine, Tbilisi arranged for billboards to be put up in the Ukrainian capital which promoted Georgian wine as "containing more freedom than allowed" and as the wine "prohibited in Russia."

The Sajalabo house

The Sajalabo house

The Sajalabo house

The Sajalabo house

The Sajalabo house

The Sajalabo house

 19th century Megrelian "Sajalabo House"

Darbazi houses of eastern and

southern Georgia differ

from each other. The eastern style

has one common,

undivided space where several

generations live together

The open air Museum of

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

Museum) extends on 52 hectaresThe Sajalabo house

Koeberlinia spinosa is a species of flowering plant native to the south western United States and northern Mexico known by several common names, including crown of thorns, all thorn, and crucifixion thorn

Oda Sakhli, Abasha region, village Ontopho XIXcentury

Oda Sakhli, Abasha region, village Ontopho XIXcentury

Oda Sakhli, Abasha region, village Ontopho XIXcentury

Wooden plow

Koeberlinia spinosa (crown of thorns, all thorn, and crucifixion thorn)

Administration building near the entrance Museum of Ethnography

Administration building near the entrance Museum of Ethnography

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