The Revived History
exhibition, the Georgian National Museum’s Restored Jewish Collections at the
Georgian National Gallery from 26 April to 11 May 2016 is about 100 pieces from
the 19th to early 20th century. In 2014-2015, the Rothschild Foundation
supported the Georgian National Museum to restore and conserve their Jewish Cultural
Heritage Collections, including paintings, drawings, textiles, clothes, and
religious artefacts. The grant continues until 2017.
The exhibition brings
together collections from two museums: the Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia and
the Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum. In 2014, after reconstruction,
the David Baazov Museum of History of the Jews in Georgia and the
Georgian-Jewish Relations Museum opened.
The paintings in the exhibition are primarily by Georgian artists Shalom Koboshvili and David Gvelesiani, with others by unknown artists. The scenes are the day-to-day lives of people, within their homes, fields, and bath-houses.
The exhibition
displays the restored pieces and shows a video and photographic evidence of the
restoration processes.
In addition, there are
several dresses, such as bridal wear, made of coarse calico, silk thread, lace,
ribbon, brocade, and embroidery, mostly hand woven on looms.
MARTINA NICOLLS is the author of:-
The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends
(2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan
Curse (2009).
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