National_museum_of_iran

The National Museum of Iran (in Persian: موزه ملي ايران Mūze-ye Millī-ye Irān, or موزه ایران باستان Muze-ye Irân-e Bâstân, "Museum of Ancient Iran") is an archeological and historical museum located in Tehran. It preserves ancient Persian antiquities including pottery vessels, metal objects, books, coins etc. It was inaugurated in 1937.

The museum consists of two buildings. Building number one is dedicated to the pre-Islamic collection, while Building number two consists of post-Islamic artifacts.

Building number one consists of three halls. The three halls contain artifacts from lower, middle, and upper paleolithic, as well as neolithic, chalcolithic, early and late Bronze Ages, Iron Ages I-III, through the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid ages.

The post-Islamic part of the museum was inaugurated in 1996 and consists of three floors as well. It contains various pieces of pottery, textiles, texts, artworks, astrolabes, and adobe calligraphy from 1400 years of Islamic history in Iran.

The original museum (building I) was designed by Andre Godard, a French architect. It is located in central Tehran.

Plans are underway for the construction of a new building, as the current one lacks the capacity and standards for preserving all of Iran\'s excavated treasures. There are a number of research departments in the museum consist of Center for PaleolithicResearch, Center for Achaemenid Research, and Center for ceramic studies.

Collections

The oldest artifacts, in the museum are from Kashafrud, Darband and Ganj Par sites that date back to Lower Paleolithic. Mousterian stone tools made by Neanderthal man also are shown in the first hall.the most important Upper Paleolithic tools are from Yafteh Cave dating back to about 30-35 thousands years ago. There are also 9000 year old human and animal figurines from Teppe Sarab in Kermanshah Province among the many other ancient artifacts.

Some of the museum\'s permanent collections are routinely loaned to other notable museums such as the British Museum in London.

See also

• Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (website)
• Iran\'s National Rug Gallery
• Talar Vahdat Theater
• Darabad Museum of Natural History
• Iran Cultural Heritage Organization

External links

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