Sunday, May 22, 2011

National museum of Iran

The National Museum of Iran is in its capital city Tehran. The Museum was first build in 1937, by a French architect named, Andre Godard.

 

The museum is a combination of two museums; one is representative of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, early and late Bronze Age, and Iron Ages I-III, through the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid periods. There are many pieces of relic which attracts visitors of Iran, and they feel that how the glory of history remains long ages.

 

The second is post-Islamic part of the museum, which reflect the Islamic culture and art including, poetry, textile, and beautiful calligraphy, which denotes the art of writing Quran in beautiful style with managed colors.

 

A travel to Iran is always a travel to National Museum as well.

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