Azarbaijan Museum is the major archaeological and historical museum in Tabriz. It was established in April 1958. Apart from National Museum of Iran in Tehran, Azarbaijan Museum has the largest collection belonging to different periods of Iran’s history.

This museum’s entrance is a great brick portal with big wooden doors guarded by two stone rams. Ground-floor exhibits include finds from Hasanlu (an Iron Age town that developed into a citadel over 4000 years), a superb 3000-year-old copper helmet and curious stone ‘handbags’ from the 3rd millennium BC. Found near Kerman, these are understood to be symbols of wealth once carried by provincial treasurers.