{"id":1178,"date":"2017-05-13T06:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T01:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.com\/fa\/?page_id=1178"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:02:01","slug":"%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b1%d9%81%db%8c-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%87-%d9%85%d9%84%db%8c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%b1%d9%81%db%8c-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b2%d9%87-%d9%85%d9%84%db%8c\/","title":{"rendered":"About Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1505182506323{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<div class=\" block-slider banner-slider10 vc_custom_1505185920276\">\n                                <ul class=\"home-slider kt-bxslider\"><div class=\"item-banner8\">\n                                <div class=\"banner-thumb\"><a 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The Museum consists of the Iran Bastan Museum (Ancient Iran) and the Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran, as well as eight research departments, the conservation department, the library and the archives. The research departments are organized by specific archaeological and historical periods and topics. This Museum houses the largest collections of archaeological objects in the country. Dating from the Paleolithic to the late Islamic period, the collections represent more than a million years of human settlement and cultural achievement in Iran. The Paleolithic personal ornaments, clay and human figurines from the early village communities, earliest evidence of administrative technology and writing from the 4th millennium BC, Persepolis stone reliefs and capitals, Parthian life-size bronze statue of the &#8220;Shami Man&#8221;, natural mummy of a man called &#8220;Salt Man,&#8221; the Ilkhanid Mihrab (prayer niche) of Dar-e Behesht, and the pen and ink (Siah Qalam) paintings by Reza Abbasi of the Safavid period are among the important objects in the museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=&#8221;2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1533029347941{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1513925532648{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/m2.jpg\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617623763701{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: #dddbdb; height: 48px; text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; font-size: x-large;\">Ancient Iran<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617617069691{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #aeaeae !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 20px; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; height: 435px;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Ancient Iran Museum is the \ufb01rst building in Iran speci\ufb01cally designed and built as a museum. It was designed by the French architect Andr\u00e9 Godard and constructed by two Iranian masons, Abbas-Ali Me&#8217;mar and Morad Tabrizi between 1933 -1936. Its fa\u00e7ade and portico were inspired by the famous arch of Taq-e Kasra of Ctesiphon, one of the famous examples of the architecture of the Sassanian period; the building&#8217;s brickwork exhibits the Persian tradition of brick construction.<\/p>\n<p>The permanent exhibition covers a surface area of some 4,800 square meters on two \ufb02oors and a basement, containing selected artifacts in chronological order, from the Lower Paleolithic period (ca. 1,000,000 years ago) to the end of Sasanian times (651 CE). The \ufb01rst-\ufb02oor galleries contain prehistoric objects including Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic artifacts. The ground \ufb02oor galleries contain historic objects including Bronze Age, Elamite, Iron Age, Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanian artifacts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617627706866{margin-top: 1px !important;background-color: #aeaeae !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 10px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Plan-Bastan.jpeg\"> Plans <\/a>\/<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Iran-Bastan-Nowroze-96-1.pdf\"> Brochure <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1513956951411{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/m1.jpg\" \/>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617623775381{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #dddbdb; height: 48px; text-align: center;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-top: 10px; font-size: x-large;\">Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617617134069{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;background-color: #aeaeae !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding: 20px; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; height: 435px;\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Museum of Islamic Archaeology and Art of Iran covers some 4000 square meters with three \ufb02oors is a part of the National Museum of Iran. Its octagonal plan is inspired by the Sasanid palace at Bish\u0101pur. The museum building was designed by architect Eugene Aftandilian, and its construction began in the 1940s and completed in the1950s. The building was initially used as ethnography museum and for temporary exhibitions. After a period of renovation, the building was reopened in 1996 as the Museum of the Islamic Era. In the summer of 2006, another phase of restoration and reconstruction began, and the new museum was reopened in 2015.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ground \ufb02oor is designated as the auditorium and the temporary exhibitions hall. The Islamic artifacts are on display chronologically on the \ufb01rst and second \ufb02oors. The second \ufb02oor contains the early Islamic, Seljuq and Ilkhanid periods and the \ufb01rst \ufb02oor houses the holy Qur\u0101n hall, and artifacts of the Timurid, Safavid, Afsh\u0101r, Zand and Qajar periods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1617627672147{margin-top: 1px !important;background-color: #aeaeae !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: x-large; padding: 10px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Plan-Islamic.jpeg\"> Plans <\/a>\/<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Islamic-Broshor-Nowroze-96-1.pdf\"> Brochure <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1533029464582{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1614669002793{margin-top: 2px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #aeaeae !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-large; text-align: center; padding: 10px; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/irannationalmuseum.ir\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/\u0642\u0648\u0627\u0646\u06cc\u0646-\u0645\u0648\u0632\u0647-\u0645\u0644\u06cc-\u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terms and Conditions of Visiting the Museum <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1505182506323{margin-right: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1513925101278{margin-bottom: 15px !important;background-color: #dcdcdc !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1614668404826{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;] National Museum of Iran is a state museum under the auspices of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts. 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