Art & Culture
Museums
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Iran National Museum
The National Museum is the most important museum in Iran to hold archaeological collections; research shows that it...
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Mausoleum of Sheikh Shahab-ed-Din Ahari
Sheikh Shahab-ed-Din Mahmood Ahari was a famous seventh and eighth century mystic scholar and this mausoleum was built...
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Museum and Fire Temple of Kerman Zoroastrians
The Fire Temple of Zoroastrians was established in 1303 SH by the aid of some of Persian magus...
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Education Museum
Education Museum in Isfahan was established in 1381 SH. This museum is placed inside an old house belonged...
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The Stone Museum in Taq-e Bostan (Kermanshah)
The Stone Museum is placed next to the historical area of Taq-e Bostan. It includes over forty stone objects most of which related to Sassanid empire and also to Qajar. There are Sassanid capitals in the museum belonged to a palace which had never been constructed.
Handicrafts
The Fame & Myth
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Behjat Sadr (Markazi)
Behjat Sadr, a modernist painter of Iran, was born in Khordad 1303 SH in Arak. Her family moved...
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Majid Samii (Gilan)
Majid Samii, a physician and neurosurgeon, was born on Khordad 29, 1316 SH (19 June 1937) in Tehran. ...
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Mir Damad
Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi, or Asterabadi, known also as Mir Damad, was one of the philosophers, scholars, jurists,...
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Khwārizmī (Khorasan)
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the famous mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and historian, was born in 185 AH. There is...
Dance & Local Games
Persian Foods
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Kalam Polo Shirazi
Fars province is one of the historical provinces of Iran, which is best-known for the unique civilization and...
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Tabaheg
In addition to a long history, unique civilization and native cultures, the four season province of Sistan and...
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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.
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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.
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Jaghoor Baghoor (Haggis)
Jaghoor Baghoor is one of the traditional and popular cuisines in Zanjan province which has gained a high reputation among tourists. It is a simple and yet delicious and nourishing meal.