Museum Theatre and Evening Performance
National Museum Rustaveli Avenue and a pre-selected performance.
- days
- 1 / 0 nights
- Total distance
- 8 km
- Total driving
- 00:30
- Car needed
- Economy class
- Season
- All year
- Difficulty
- Easy
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A flexible culture day ending with an opera ballet or drama available on the selected date.
Day-by-day plan
Freedom Square → National Museum → Opera House → Rustaveli Theatre → Sololaki → selected evening performance.
Stops on this route
Georgian National Museum
The Janashia Museum on Rustaveli Avenue: 1.8-million-year-old Dmanisi skulls, Colchian gold and a sober hall on the Soviet occupation.
2 h
Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre
The Paliashvili opera house on Rustaveli Avenue: a neo-Moorish façade, a European hall, 175 seasons and the State Ballet of Georgia.
3 h
Rustaveli Theatre
Georgia's largest theatre, a Rococo wedding cake on Rustaveli Avenue — stage of Akhmeteli and Sturua, with a basement painted by Gudiashvili and Kakabadze.
2.5 h
Sololaki and its Art Nouveau Entrances
A merchants' quarter under the Sololaki ridge where the real show is indoors: painted stairwells, coloured glass and the Writers' House on Machabeli Street.
1.5 hTips
- Choose the performance first and fit daytime stops to its start time.
- Walk or use the metro instead of driving in the centre.
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