Museums

Museums in Iran, Iran is known as the land of Golden Rhytons, Glorious cups, and civilized statues. Iran has numerous museums that depict the brilliant history, art, and culture of Iran.

Jewelry Museum

The unrivaled national jewelry museum, which is open to the public, is a precious collection of the most expensive jewels and royal objects of Iran and the world, collected from ancient till present time. Every piece of this treasure is a reminder of proud victories and embarrassing defeats over the centuries.

The exciting part of visiting this museum is that if you are going to visit these valuable objects you have to enter a strongbox! There you can see all jewels. Among all eye-catching objects the Kouh-e-Nour diamond, Globe of jewels, and Sun Throne consider as distinguished parts of this treasure.

Tehran Museum of Contemporary

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art or TMoCA is among the largest art museums, which familiarize you with the art and culture of Iran more and more. The architecture of this museum was inspired by windcatcher, a traditional Persian element of desert area. It has a collection of more than 4000 masterpieces of outside and inside artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giacometti and etc.

Even the garden of the museum is decorated with western sculptures that is why it can be considered as an example of contemporary art. The value of all the artistic objects reaches more than 2.5 billion dollars.

Isfahan music museum

This newly established museum in the Armenian quarter exhibits a fine collection with more than 300 types of traditional Persian instruments. A wonderful point about this museum is that during a short period from the opening date, it has succeeded to receive 2 significant awards which the last one was introducing as the best private museum of Iran by the international council of museums (ICOM). It is highly recommended for those who are in love with music and finely crafted instruments.

Carpet museum of Mashhad

The Museum of carpet is one of 14 treasuries at the holy shrine of Imam Reza, eight imams of the Shiites. At present this treasury exhibit more than 100 carpets and rugs which are considered to be great work. This museum contains 3 floors of the exhibition.

Ground floor: woven carpets by the central and eastern parts of the country and also curtain carpets.First floor: woven carpets by western and northwestern part of the country and also nomads carpets.Second floor: carpets from the Safavid period and great large carpets of Mashhad.