The National Museum of Georgia is a museum located in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, with its main building situated on Rustavili Street. The museum houses artifacts dating from 2000 BC to modern times, encompassing archaeology, geology, history, folklore, and art. Located in the heart of Tbilisi, it is about a 5-minute walk from Freedom Square and faces the Parliament Building across the street. The museum was originally established in the 1920s. In 2004, Georgia underwent a reform of its museum system, and "National Museum of Georgia" became a collective name for several national museums. The museum features permanent exhibitions such as "The Underground Treasure Trove" and "The Forbidden Zone of Soviet Memory," and its collection includes pre-Christian gold artifacts and jewels, such as the small golden lion, a national symbol, as well as millennia-old gold and silver artifacts and fossils.