The Reza Abbasi Museum (
Persian: موزه رضا عباسی ) is a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...
in
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. It is located in
Seyed Khandan.
[http://www.allmuseums.com/english/reza_abbasi_museum.html ] The museum is named after
Reza Abbasi, one of the artists in the
Safavid
Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...
period.
[Iranian Tours]
The Reza Abbasi Museum is home to a unique collection of
Persian art
Persian art or Iranian art () has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in many media including architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and sculpture. At different times, influences f ...
dating back to the second millennium BC, from both the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras.
[Reza Abbasi Museum's Documents Burned in Tehran]
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History
''Reza Abbasi Museum'' was officially opened in September 1977 under the guidance of Queen Farah Pahlavi,[Pahlavi, Farah. ‘An Enduring Love: My Life with The Shah. A Memoir’ 2004] but it was closed in November 1978. It was reopened a year later in 1979, with some changes in its internal decorations and further expansion of its exhibition space. It was closed again in 1984 due to some internal difficulties and reopened a year later. It was finally opened for the fifth time, after its renovation on February 4, 2000. Currently Reza Abbasi Museum is administrated by Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran.[Official Website]
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Collections
The collections of this museum belong to a period from the 7nd millennium BC to the early 20th century. The displays are set according to time interval. There are many objects exhibited in this museum such as artifacts made of baked clay, metal and stone from the pre historic times to pottery and metal objects, textile and lacquer painting, manuscripts and jewelry belonging to the Islamic period.[
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Library
There are over 10,000 Persian, English, French and German books about Persian art, history, archaeology and classical paintings in this museum.[
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Publication department
The publication department has published many books regarding Iranian arts and collections.[
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Training courses
There are also different training courses in the museum such as Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayo ...
, Calligraphy
Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined ...
, Watercolor
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...
and Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest ...
.[
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Burning the documents
In May 2015 various documents of the museum which were mostly communications with Queen Farah Diba's office before 1979 Islamic Revolution were burned. The issue was revealed by Mehr News Agency
The Mehr News Agency (MNA; ''Xabâr-gozâri Mehr''; "Mehr News Agency") is a semi-official news agency of the Iranian government. It is headquartered in Tehran, and is owned by the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO).
History and ...
in Tehran and created a lot of criticism in Persian-language media and social networks.[
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The collection of silver coins
Image:Vonones II Parthian silver coin.JPG, '' Vonones II of Parthia''
Image:Vologases IV Parthian silver coin.jpg, '' Vologases V of Parthia''
Image:Shapur II Sassanid silver coin.JPG, ''Shapur II
Shapur II ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 ; New Persian: , ''Šāpur'', 309 – 379), also known as Shapur the Great, was the tenth Sasanian King of Kings ( Shahanshah) of Iran. The longest-reigning monarch in Iranian history, he reign ...
''
Image:Shapur I Sassanid silver coin.JPG, ''Shapur I
Shapur I (also spelled Shabuhr I; pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩, Šābuhr ) was the second Sasanian King of Kings of Iran. The dating of his reign is disputed, but it is generally agreed that he ruled from 240 to 270, with his father Ardas ...
''
Image:Ardashir I Papakan Sassanid silver coin.JPG, ''Ardashir I
Ardashir I (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥, Modern Persian: , '), also known as Ardashir the Unifier (180–242 AD), was the founder of the Sasanian Empire. He was also Ardashir V of the Kings of Persis, until he founded the new ...
''
Image:Ardashir III Sassanid silver coin.JPG, Ardashir III
Image:Bahram V Sassanid silver coin.JPG, Bahram V
Bahram V (also spelled Wahram V or Warahran V; pal, 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known as Bahram Gor (New Persian: , "Bahram the onager") was the Sasanian King of Kings ('' shahanshah'') from 420 to 438.
The son of the incumbent Sasanian sh ...
Image:Hormizd IV Sassanid silver coin.JPG, Hormizd IV
Image:Khosrow I Anushirvan Sassanid silver coin.JPG, Khosrau I
Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; pal, 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: []), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan ( [] "the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian Empire, Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from ...
Image:Khosrow II Sassanid silver coin.JPG, Khosrau II
References
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Museums established in 1977
Museums in Tehran
National museums of Iran
Museums of Ancient Near East in Asia
Art museums and galleries in Iran