The LEPL Ajara Museum brings together four Museums and three Affiliations. Each museum has an educational programme with different content. A total of 50 educational programmes have been introduced, arranged according to the age groups of the visitors.

The LEPL Ajara Museum brings together four Museums and three Affiliations. Each museum has an educational programme with different content. A total of 50 educational programmes have been introduced, arranged according to the age groups of the visitors.
The programme focuses on history, art, ethnography, geography, and architecture.
Today we present the programme "How did people live in Ajara in the past?". This program is aimed at students aged 5 to 9 and is designed to familiarise students with the houses commonly found in Ajara, people's daily lives, and folk traditions.
In In ancient times, in the highlands of Adjara - Khulo, Shuakhevi and Khino - one- or two-storey house - ''jargvali'' -planked, wooden house was common, with a fireplace or chimney and a roof made of shingles or straw. The second zone is the Keda and Khelvachauri region, where there are houses made of quadrangle, well-cut planks and houses made of stone and bricks on the first floor.
The Kobuleti district is considered an independent area. There are different types of houses here, where attention is paid to the layout and building materials. Two- and three-storey wooden ''Oda'' houses -upper storey of wooden house on piles and three- and four-storey Laz houses are typical here. In Kobuleti, there were also thatched houses in the areas by the sea.
Fourthly, in the alpine zone one finds more or less all types of houses, the oldest of which is the two-storey house, nested on ‘’jargvali’’ -planked house the same log house with a double-sided roof and floor covered with earth . The house's first floor was a cattle shed where cows, calves, horses, and small animals (sheep, goats) were kept and hay was stored. A storage room for small goods or even working tools is often set up on the lower side of the Ajarian house, under the 'akhori' - a cattle shed. For this reason, the house built on a slope appears to have three storeys from the front, whereas from the outside, it seems to have two. The choice of location was the first step in the construction of a house. Since Ajara is mostly mountainous, choosing a site requires more effort. Much attention was paid to the avoidance of landslides, snow avalanches, the drainage of river beds, the proximity to three-way roads of the village or district, but the proximity of water was one of the most important conditions. They chose a flat site for the house; if it was a sloping site, they made it semi-flat.
 After receiving an interesting information, the students will model and draw the old Ajarian houses.

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