Project ArtBeat

Tbilisi


This gallery is Georgia's leading contemporary art space, nurturing local talent and giving shows to up-and-coming artists. Pop in to see what's currently exciting the curators on the local art scene, and also look out for their mobile gallery – a shipping container displaying an exhibit by a regularly changing individual artist – on your travels around the country.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Tbilisi attractions

1. Parliament Building

0.18 MILES

The impressive high-arched Parliament building has seen many momentous events, including the deaths of 19 Georgian hunger strikers at the hands of Soviet…

2. Georgian National Museum

0.2 MILES

The major highlight of the impressive national museum is the basement Archaeological Treasury, displaying a wealth of pre-Christian gold, silver and…

3. Freedom Square

0.25 MILES

This busy traffic nexus was Lenin Sq in Soviet times. Georgia’s last Lenin statue, toppled in 1990, stood where the golden St George (a gift to the city…

4. Funicular

0.26 MILES

The ride up Mt Mtatsminda on the city's funicular is spectacular, as are the views from the top – and there are a couple of great places to eat or drink,…

5. Kashveti Church

0.26 MILES

The first church on this site is supposed to have been built in the 6th century by Davit Gareja, one of the ascetic ‘Syrian fathers’ who returned from the…

6. National Gallery

0.27 MILES

For most visitors the highlight here is the hall of wonderful canvases by Georgia’s best-known painter Pirosmani (Niko Pirosmanashvili, 1862–1918),…

7. Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Art

0.28 MILES

This museum contains a vast wealth of icons, crosses and jewellery from all over Georgia. Sadly, it can only be entered with a guide (English available,…

8. Mtatsminda Pantheon

0.42 MILES

The national pantheon sits on the slopes of Mt Mtatsminda, on the route of a walking path down from Mtatsminda Park, and is the site of burial for many…