Iran's National Museum

National Museum of Iran, aging more than 70 years, containing 300,000 museum objects in an area more than 20,000 square meters, is not only the largest museum of History and Archaeology of the country, but ranks as one of the few most prestigious museums of the world in regard to grand volume, diversity and quality of its huge monuments. In the Iranian museum tradition it is considered Iran’s mother museum, aiming at preserving relics of the past to hand down to the next generations, enhancing better understanding among world peoples and nations, discovering and showing Iranian’s roles in shaping world culture and civilization and trying to enhance public knowledge

Persian Art Research
Iran, since long time ago, has been the cradle of science and art which led to appearance of various artistic schools in the history. This indicates that Iranians own creativity and value of Art. Therefore, to present this artistic school, even beyond the geographical borders, the history of Iran Art Department is under progress in National Museum of Iran.

The major goals of this research department include as follows:
-Presenting types of arts and crafts with their history
-Presenting the historic appearance and the reasons of variety of different artistic schools in Iran
- Explaining the reasons of dehiscence and degeneration of various artistic schools in Iran
-Indicating artistic specifications of each historic era
-Presenting and exhibiting works of various significant artistic styles in Iran
-Expressing artistic and cultural effects of various artistic schools on other artistic schools and on reverse.

Address : 30 Tir Ave, Emam Khomeini Ave, Tehran

Tel : 6-6702061

Email : info@nationalmuseumofiran.ir