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Museum · Gori, Gori Municipality, Shida Kartli

Joseph Stalin Museum

იოსებ სტალინის სახელმწიფო მუზეუმი · Stalin Museum · Joseph Stalin State Museum

A museum complex in central Gori built around the small house where Joseph Stalin was born, with a main exhibition building opened in 1957 and his personal railway carriage displayed alongside.

Where it is

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41.9872, 44.1136

Why go

Six halls follow Stalin's life in order, from his early years to the post-war period, through photographs, documents, gifts sent to him, a reproduction of the office he used from 1918 to 1922 and a copy of his death mask; the collection runs to about 40,000 items. A section on the period of repression was added in 2010. The birth house became a memorial museum in 1937, during Stalin's lifetime, and much of the main exhibition keeps its Soviet-era presentation. It suits travellers interested in twentieth-century history, and Gori Fortress, on its hill in the same town, makes an easy second stop.

Base yourself nearby

city

Tbilisi

Georgia’s capital is a layered city of old balconies, sulfur baths, hillside neighborhoods, contemporary restaurants and centuries of history along the Mtkvari River.

Historic town

Mtskheta

Mtskheta was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Iberia and is the place where Georgia adopted Christianity in the fourth century. Today it is a small, walkable town twenty kilometres from Tbilisi holding Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, the hilltop church of Jvari, the working convent of Samtavro and the archaeological remains of the pre-Christian royal city, inscribed together on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is simultaneously Georgia's most important pilgrimage destination and its most accessible serious historical site.

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