Moghadam Museum

The Moghadam Museum is housed in one of the historical mansions of the Qajar era (1785-1925), which once belonged to the archaeologist and painter Mohsen Moghadam (1900 – 1987). Moghadam was a student of art from the Kamal al-Molk School and later studied painting in Switzerland. When Moghadam inherited the house from his father, he and his wife adorned it with traditional crafts, stuccoes, mirror works, tiles, shells, ancient artefacts, woodwork and painting. The house came to prominence in the 1950s and ‘60s when Professor Arthur Pope, an American art historian, wrote about it in his Survey of Iranian Arts. (Financial Tribune)

Moghadam bequeathed the house to Tehran University in 1972, and the museum was opened to the public in August 2009. (Tavoos Online)

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