Tehran Grand Bazar The Tehran Grand Bazar grew as a “city within a city” and includes banks, a church, several mosques, most notably the impressive Imam Khomeini Mosque, and the ornately decorated Imamzadeh Zeid, a shrine to a descendant of the prophet. Most lanes specialise in a particular commodity: copper, paper, gold, spices, and carpets,...Read More

Sadabad Palace Sa’dabad Complex is located in the north part of Tehran and built during the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasty. The complex contains 18 palaces surrounded by gardens in an area of 300 hectares. The main palaces in the complex are the white and green palaces. In the 1920s Reza Shah added some buildings to...Read More

Reza Abbasi Museum The name of the museum comes from an artist of the Safavid period named Reza Abbasi. The collection on display and in storage belong to a period from the 2nd millennium BC to the early 20th century right at the end of the Qajar period.The exhibits are organised chronologically starting with the...Read More

Complex of Niavaran The Complex of Niavaran is a garden of historical buildings and natural attractions situated close to the mountains in the north of Tehran. Its origin goes back to the Qajar dynasty where the garden was used as a summer residence. The main palace was completed in 1968 and it was the primary...Read More

National Museum The National Museum of Iran opened in 1937. The building was designed by a French architect André Godard and even today is one of the more attractive modern buildings in Tehran.This modest museum is chock-full of Iran’s rich history. The collection includes ceramics, pottery, stone figures and carvings, mostly taken from excavations at...Read More

National Jewelry Treasury The National Jewelry Treasury is located in the central bank just south of Ferdowsi square at the heart of Tehran. Most of the collection in the Treasury of National Jewels dates back to Safavid times, when the shahs scoured Europe, India and the lands of the Ottoman Empire for booty with which to decorate...Read More

Qasr Museum The Qasr (Castle) originally was built in 1790 as a palace by the Qajar dynasty. In the early 20th century a prison, designed to meet international standards by the Russian architect Nikolai Markov, was constructed and it’s this building that forms the first part of the museum. This imaginative sculpture park and museum...Read More

Golestan Palace The magnificent Golestan Palace a world heritage site located in the south of Tehran right next to the bazaar.There was a Safavid-era citadel on this site, it was Nasser al-Din Shah (r 1848–96), impressed by what he’d seen of European palaces, who created the ‘Palace of Flowers’. Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar...Read More

Abgineh Museum Glassware and Ceramic Museum (Abgineh Museum) was originally ordered to be built as the personal residence of a politician in the early 1920s. then it was sold to the Egyptian embassy but eventually in 1976 it was converted into a museum. The glass and ceramic exhibited in this museum belong to a span...Read More

Carpet Museum The exterior of the structure is designed both to resemble a carpet loom and to cast shade on the exterior walls reducing the impact of the hot summer sun on the interior temperature. Carpet Museum of Iran exhibits a variety of Persian carpets from all over Iran dating from the 16th century to...Read More