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Museum as a Space of Connection

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Post published:June 30, 2026
Post Category:Museum guest

What role can a museum play in the twenty-first century? Is it merely a repository of the past and a neutral narrator of history? Or is it a space where…

TEXERE – Textile, Text and Interaction

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Post published:February 14, 2026
Post Category:Museum guest

TEXERE – a temporary exhibition at the State Silk Museum – opened in a sketch-like format conceived as an open platform and welcomed visitors from 19 October to 27 December…

Performative Reading – “Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at The State Silk Museum”

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Post published:August 19, 2025
Post Category:Museum guest / Museums and stories

Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum features a unique collection from the museum. When an early 20th century collection of microscopic glass plate negatives was digitized…

Steppe Route From Korea To Georgia – Exhibition by Heryun Kim

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Post published:August 19, 2025
Post Category:Museum guest

The exhibition Steppe Route: From Korea to Georgia by artist Heryun Kim, presented in the spaces of the State Silk Museum, offered dynamic works that reflect on timeless ancient knowledge.…

Texts as Cultural Treasure

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Post published:October 10, 2024
Post Category:Museum guest

Co-curated by Lydia Matthews, Nino (Chuka) Kuprava and Mariam Shergelashvili Supported by the US Embassy in Georgia Texts as Cultural Treasure is a multidisciplinary project at the State Silk Museum…

Without Museum Objects: Meditation on Mulberry Trees

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Post published:October 20, 2021
Post Category:All / Collections / Museum guest / Museums and stories / Review

Inside a “cocoon,” surrounded by a silk layer through which the images of moths and giant cocoons can be noticed; roofed with archival images of sericulture - mulberry tree and…

Without Museum Objects: Leafeaters

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Post published:July 9, 2021
Post Category:All / Collections / Museum guest / Museums and stories / Photo story / Review

Without Museum Objects The Silk Museum started to spin a cocoon around itself. After the building’s rehabilitation, the museum will reopen in a new form. The objects are being temporarily…

Pirimze

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Post published:June 3, 2021
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I worked on the project Pirimze for several years. I researched this building from different angles and met a lot of people who worked there. As a result, I created…

Photo from the National Archives of Georgia

What Is Tbilisi Silk Weaving Factory Telling Us?

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Post published:May 17, 2021
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Tbilisi Silk Weaving Factory, which many of us have heard about, was founded in 1928 inside the former tobacco mill of Tbilisi. The building itself was constructed in 1883 and…

Textile Is Telling Us…

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Post published:April 15, 2021
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What Is Textile Telling Us? This was the name of an online educational program that the State Silk Museum implemented in March 2021. The workshop focused on personal stories regarding…