The Museum of Fine Arts (often known as S. Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts) is one of the most important museums in Georgia. It is situated near Freedom Square, Tbilisi, and is home to about 140,000 items of Georgian, Oriental, Russian and European art.

The Museum was founded in 1920 by the renowned Georgian artist Dimitri Shevardnadze and through the efforts of Europe-educated young Georgian artists, initially as National Art Gallery, out of which grew the Central Museum of Fine Arts, which was opened in Tbilisi in August 1923.

It posseses about 900 hundred thousand exhibits from the medieval times up to the XX c. and a few materials of the pre-Christian period. In 1990 the museum was named after the eminent Georgian art historian Shalva Amiranashvili due to his outstanding service for the Georgian art.

The Museum is distinguished for its Georgian goldsmith pieces that date back to the VIII-XIX centuries. Among the most popular exhibits are the icon of Zarzma Monastery, Anchistkhati and Khakhuli Triptychs, Processional Liturgical Crosses, the Chalice of Bedia etc. The museum also preservs unique pieces of jewelry and art textiles, monuments of medieval architecture, paintings, mosaics, statues etc.

The works of famous Georgian painters Niko Pirosmanishvili, Lado Gudiashvili, Elene Akvlediani, David Kakabadze are preserved here. There are also collections of Russian, Western European and Oriental (mainly Persian) artworks. The most essential of the Museum’s collections is that of Georgian art, that illustrates the development of the national artistic culture through many centuries, starting from ancient times to the present. In its size and importance, the Oriental section is the next, and is one of the largest in the post-Soviet countries. Pieces of Qajar art (Persian fine arts), probably make the most outstanding part of the Oriental collection totalling miniatures of Persian court artists – images of court beauties, and portraits of shahs and noblemen. There are often temporary exhibitions that illustrate works from other collections in the country and abroad.