Tbilisi Open Air Museum celebrates city festival Tbilisoba with folklore, exhibition, cuisine events

Tbilisi Open Air Museum of Ethnography, on the hillside leading to the capital city’s Turtle Lake, is hosting festive events presenting folklore, traditional cuisine, exhibitions and other aspects of Georgian culture, in celebration of the annual city festival Tbilisoba this weekend, the country's Ministry of Culture said on Saturday.

The two-day event, celebrating the diversity and history of Tbilisi, also revives the culture and traditions of Georgia’s regions with exhibitions, cooking, baking and crafting master classes, wine corners, puppet theatre performances, folklore concerts and other various events in the Tbilisi Open Air Museum. 

The traditions and culture of Georgia’s eastern Shida Kartli and Mtskheta-Mtianeti regions, southeastern region of Kvemo Kartli, western Guria, Samegrelo and Racha regions, and north-western highland Svaneti, as well as the Black Sea region of Adjara, are also being displayed on Saturday with diverse exhibitions and regional culinary master classes.

On Sunday, the diversity of the traditions of Georgia's Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions will be highlighted by showcasing their culture, culinary master classes and folklore events with wine corners arranged as well.