National Museum of Iran

National Museum of Iran, containing 300,000 museum objects in an area more than 20,000 square meters, is not only the largest museum of History and Archaeology in the Iran, but ranks as one of the few most prestigious museums of the world in regard to grand volume, diversity and quality of its huge monuments. In the Iranian museum tradition it is considered Iran’s mother museum, aiming at preserving relics of the past to hand down to the next generations, enhancing better understanding among world peoples and nations, discovering and showing Iranian’s roles in shaping world culture and civilization and trying to enhance public knowledge. (UNESCO)

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