Art & Culture

Museums

  • Iron Age Museum

    Iron Age Museum

    One of the most unique and terrible site-museums around the world is Iron Age Site-Museum, an ancient cemetery...

  • Mashhad Museum of Earth Sciences

    Mashhad Museum of Earth Sciences

    The project of building Earth Sciences Park was started in 1385 SH in an area of 450 square...

  • The Quran and Ahlul Bayt Museum

    The Quran and Ahlul Bayt Museum

    The Quran and Ahlul Bayt Museum in Zahedan is built in a historic building dating back to the late Pahlavi era.

  • Qazvin Museum or City Museum (Qazvin)

    Qazvin Museum or City Museum (Qazvin)

    Qazvin Museum which is also known as City Museum was established in 2005 in the area of Safavid Dowlatkhaneh (state office) in a short distance to Chehel Sotun Palace in Qazvin. The museum is in fact an archaeology museum encompassing over 7000 old and unique relics

  • Isfahan Museum of Music

    Isfahan Museum of Music

    Isfahan Museum of Music is the only and the first private museum in Iran which is entirely dedicated to music.

    Handicrafts

    The Fame & Myth

    • Ebrahim Monsefi of Hormozgan

      Ebrahim Monsefi of Hormozgan

      Ebrahim Monsefi, a poet, composer, singer and musician, was born on Azar 16, 1324 SH in Bandar Abbas....

    • Abu Sahl al-Quhi

      Abu Sahl al-Quhi

      Abu Sahl Bijan ibn Rostam al-Quhi, an Iranian mathematician astronomer, was born in Tabarestan (now Mazandaran), lived in...

    • Omar Khayyam (Razavi Khorasan)

      Omar Khayyam (Razavi Khorasan)

      Hojjat-ol-Hagh, Omar ibn Ibrahim Khayyami Nisaburi, known as Khayyam, is one of the Persian prominent scientists and cultural...

    • Shams Tabrizi (East Azerbaijan)

      Shams Tabrizi (East Azerbaijan)

      Sheikh Shams al-Din Mohammad ibn Ali ibn Malek Dad-e Tabrizi was one of the prominent Sufi masters in the...

      Dance & Local Games

      Persian Foods

      • Shole Mashhadi

        Shole Mashhadi

        Razavi Khorasan is one of the most important religious provinces in Iran because of the existence of Imam...

      • Baqala Qatoq

        Baqala Qatoq

        Baqala Qatoq is one of the most famous and delicious local and traditional foods of Gilan, which has...

      • Yellow Kashk

        Yellow Kashk

        The land of Sistan in southern Iran had always had a reputation for its people’s bravery. Placed in a border land, Baluch people had always been skillful in cooking foods which get quickly ready to be useable during war.

      • Dishliq Āš (Dndoonak)

        Dishliq Āš (Dndoonak)

        This Āš (an Iranian soup-like food which is sometimes transliterated as Aush or Āsh or Aush) is one of the traditional cuisines in Zanjan province which has been cooking in its most cities and surrounding villages since the past.

      • Qazvin Home-Made Cookies

        Qazvin Home-Made Cookies

        Art of making cookies is very popular among Qazvin women. Until recently, all sweets common for celebrating Norouz were made at homes. Therefore, women in this province are more occupied with this art on the eve of Norouz.

        Costume


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