Library and Rare Publications Fund
The museum's library and rare editions are quite rich and numerous. It contains about 32,000 exhibits. The main part of the collection consists of books in Georgian and Russian on theater, cinema, music, choreography, art, history and religion. Fiction, encyclopedias, dictionaries, plays are also preserved. The collection contains about three hundred sheet music. As well as magazines and newspapers of various titles. A unique treasure is the book collection of the palace residents, which is part of the Dadiani and Oldenburg libraries, the publications date back to 1633-1639. The collection is rich in rare editions in both Georgian and Russian.
The Museum of Georgian Folk Song and Musical Instruments was established in 1975 on the basis of the collection of mechanical musical instruments of Tbilisi collector Arkady Revazishvili, as a branch of the Museum of Cinema, Theatre and Music. Over time, the museum's funds were enriched with new exhibits and in 1984 it was established as an independent legal entity - the Museum of Folk Musical Instruments, and since 2006 as a legal entity of public law - the "Museum of Georgian Folk Song and Musical Instruments".
The museum's funds contain old folklore recordings, photo-phono-audio and video materials, many samples of Georgian folk, oriental, European classical and mechanical musical instruments. The museum's goal is to exhibit, preserve, systematize, and enrich the collections with new exhibits of material and intangible cultural monuments of different times - songs and musical instruments.
Magazines and newspapers Theatre and Life (1910, 1914-17, 1923-24), Nishaduri (1917-1918), Saphironi (1924), Duruji (1926), Tartaros (1927-1928), H2CO4 (1924), Mubalyadi (1920), Eroba (1920), Ushba (1926), Meo-nebe Nyamoreri (1923), Drosha (1924-1925), Mizna (1927), Piramidi (1924), Almanak (1925), Grdemli (1923 and 1927), Paskunji (1908 and 1910), Khvesi Teatri (1912), Devil's Whip (1919-1920), Sakhalkho Purtseli (1914), Sakhalkho Gazeti (1910), Whip (1915), Lakhti (1912), Kvali, Iveria.
The collection contains ancient hymns and sheet music. Books with autographs of famous people are also presented here.