stalin museum

千里迢迢来到了这伟人的家乡，就一定不要错过介绍他一生的博物馆，内面收藏也算丰富，前后对斯大林的一生有更加的了解。

Really small museum that only shows pictures of Stalin in different surroundings and old magazine articles in Russian. Not worth it, especially if you don't speak Georgian or Russian though everything is only in those languages... I got really disappointed though I hoped to learn more about Stalin with this visit...

Visited on New Year's Day so no guides. No heating either so absolutely freezing. This could be a great museum but needs a lot of money spending on it to bring it up to date. However most labels in English which helped. Two decades of Stalin's life missing!!! Guess which ones.

Stalin was one of the most powerful man and, in my view, a mass murderer, but he also was a hero winning WWII. This museum displays a lot about him, but is not a "modern" style museum and lacking in English explanations.

I really enjoyed this museum. There is a fabulous collection of the "cult of personality" memorabilia that you see in regimes such as this. Carpets with the face of Stalin, needlepoints, a tobacco-leave mosaic, etc. I knew a lot of political history about Stalin and the Soviet Union of this period, but this museum made me curious about his personal life and inspired me to do more reading. I recommend it. There is some English language information, but you would get more out of it is you read Russian. Don't miss the Art Nouveau train out back.

Yes, the fabric of the building (especially the toilets) could do with a face lift, but thanks to the hard work of the guides, the place is worth a visit. I found the early "revolutionary" years of Stalin especially interesting. The rooms upstairs focus on the positives of the USSR under Stalin, a single small room downstairs speaks to the negatives. I really encourage the museum (when funds permit) to expand this aspect which will deliver a more balanced perspective. The train carriage and apartment are also well worth seeing. Allow 1.5 hours for this visit and, assuming you have travelled from Tbilisi to Gori, do go back via the cave city of Uplistsikhe which is about 10 km East of Gori.

The museum building is very impressive and builds your hopes up to what is inside. Unfortunately thereafter it went downhill. We had a local English speaking guide together with a South African group. They could not understand her for most of the tour. The museum contains some interesting pictures, maps & items relating to Stalin, but the guide seemed to present the story in a haphazard way with no logical sequence. There was no depth of knowledge about how Stalin came to power and the negative elements were 'saved' until the end. Some of the information given was factually incorrect. It would have been good to have it explained in a chronological way, placing good and bad in context; ultimately Stalin was an incredibly influential person of the last century and I had hoped to hear the facts explained taking into account his origins.The final part surprised me - pictures of the 5 day war 2008 which had absolutely nothing to do with Stalin whatsoever. Why try to make current political points in this museum... Very disappointing

This museum was established during the days of the former Soviet Union to show case their 'great leader' in the town of his birth. The information and exhibits are very interesting, but you have to take into account that they were displaced to serve an agenda. Nevertheless, it is very interesting to use the information for developing a better understanding of Stalin, despite the efforts made to portray him in a specific way. His personal effects that are displayed in his office exhibit are also interesting, especially the slide rule. I did not know that he ever used one. The final exhibit in the basement that attempts to show an office of the NKVD and the horrors of Stalin's regime is too small and too simplistic. It must have been added after Georgia became independent. Stalin's train is another demonstration of his acute sense of security that was coupled with surprising luxury (for that era). The room in which he lived with his parents shows his humble start that must have shaped him into what he eventually became.

For who is interested (and has some background knowledge) it's an amazing museum. Not only the pictures and objects, but also the fact that it still exists. You can see that there's no maintenance whatsoever, and the attitude of the staff is likewise. Still, I think it's good that it remains open, slowly dying away, as a sign of how this man was celebrated, also after his death, Of course if you really want to know how his era was for Russia you should go elsewhere.

I visited Gori in 1987 (had to select "October 2013" on "when did you visit" to get this review to post, but ignore that), so this review may be old, but I doubt they would have changed much. It was truly eerie to see an entire town -- proudly -- extolling the "virtues" of one of the greatest butchers of history. From the 20-foot tall statue in the town square to his boyhood shack entombed in another building, this entire town is like an episode from The Twilight Zone.

This is almost a museum of the USSR rather than a museum of Stalin.OK - all the standard Stalin stuff is there. Lots of good photos, artefacts and more or less the full history of his career. Worth a visit just for that.But the fact that it still exists as if nothing has changed is the more interesting aspect.The woman who sells you your tickets (and the obligatory second woman who stamps it) are pure Soviet era. So are the toilets, and the bored looking security guards. The town itself - Gori - is also from that era.Nothing at all, obviously, about Stalin's crimes or any such thing. Maybe that will open elsewhere.The only interesting thing was that the tour guide told us that Stalin's death was due to poisoning - a matter of some conjecture among historians. How does he know that?

Orwell's Animal Farm showed how quickly the revolutionaries adopted the life style of the former establishment.Stalin used the old Tsar's train as his personal vehicle - his Air Force One, as it were - and kept all the trappings of grandeur of his former enemy. The museum tour is relatively dull, if historic. But it's worth it just to see that old train

A sleepy town, 1hrs drive from Tbilisi..... The museum is one of the biggest buildings in town. we had an English speaking guide, a lady that performed her task in true "Soviet" style, no emotions at all and somehow economical with the story..... If you didn't happen to know about Stalin's past, you could mistake him for a boring career politician... The whole thing finishes off with a visit to his rail wagon and takes approx 40 mins….. The souvenir shop is bizarre, worth having a look there. Nice restaurant across the street from the museum serve excellent Georgian meals for a reasonable price….. not so much more to see here, hence going back to Tbilisi after the lunch…

Some cool old photos but unless you read Georgian or Russian you'll only look. Same information and photos can be found on wikipedia. I would not recommend people waste their time in Gori unless it is a quick stop along the way to somewhere else. Stayed the night and not sure why now. Staff speak very little English and ticket prices were quite expensive for what it was.

We visited the museum while in gori and found it to be a little pricy for what it is. There's ,any pictures of Stalin though very few personal possessions or idea of how he lived.I would recommend a visit