Art & Culture

Museums

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Carpet Museum

Given to the antiquity of carpet weaving in Iran which dates back to the Acheamenid dynasty the necessity of establishing a museum has been highly apparent. The Carpet Mu...

Susa

The ancient city of Susa was founded as one of the most important and glorious settlements in the world dated back to 4000 BC (according to some theorists, it dated back...

Archaeology and Salt Men Museum (Zolfaghari Mansion)

The Archaeology Museum of Zanjan has been located inside a building known as Zolfaghari Mansion OR Zolfaghari House, in the center of Zanjan city along the northern side...

The Ethnography Museum of Persian Gulf

The ethnography museum of Persian Gulf, located in the city Bandar Abbas in the historic site of Berkehaye Baran, was opened in 2007 in a building with three stories in a...

Tekyeh Moaven al-Molk

Tekyehes are the religious bases during Qajar Period where different religious ceremonies were hold. Tekyeh Moaven al-Molk is one of the most beautiful and famous example...

Haft Tanan Garden

Haft Tanan garden is one of the oldest historical sites of Shiraz. This garden dating back to centuries before Zand era and its building relates to Karim Khan Zand era, i...

(War Museum) Cultural Center of Khoramshahr Holy Defense

(War Museum) Cultural Center of Khorramshahr Holy Defense

Cultural center building of Khorramshahr holy defense constructed in 1309 had been used as the administrative building of Oil Company up to the end of Iran–Iraq war. This...

Iran National Museum

The National Museum is the most important museum in Iran to hold archaeological collections; research shows that it is established commissioned by Reza Shah to a French a...

Niavaran Palace

Niavaran cultural historical complex in the north of Tehran, belonged to the Qajar and Pahlavi’s eras, is located in a large garden that enjoys the beauty and charm of th...

Malik Museum

Malik Library-Museum is a significant treasury of the lasting artistic and cultural history of Iran. Being established by Haj Hossein Malek’s investment, Malik Museum is...

Museum of Water

One of the most valuable architectural monuments and currently the world's most unique water museum is, "Water Museum" in the city of Yazd. The museum and monument featur...

Naderi Garden Museum

The complex of Naderi Garden Museum including Nader shah Afshar Tomb (1100-1160 A.H), known as the Napoleon of East, has been placed along with a museum, inside the so-ca...

Falak-ol-Aflak Museum

Falak-ol-Aflak Castle is the host of two archaeology and ethnography museums which have occupied the fifth place among the most popular museums in Iran. The building of t...

Dezful Ethnography Museum

The Ethnography Museum of Dezful is placed in an old district named Kornasion and inside a historical bath with the same name, which is famous as Kornasion bath. The anti...

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 on his grave long after his death. In existing sour...

Gilan Rural Heritage Museum

Located in the heart of Saravan Forests, near Rasht City and before Fuman road, many rural houses have been gathered in the Gilan Rural Heritage Museum from the surroundi...

Handicrafts

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Ghalamkari Print of Isfahan (Calico Work)

Ghalamkari, a kind of traditional print that is applied to textile, is one of many handicrafts of Isfahan. The handicrafts of Isfahan are so popular and prosperous that t...

Zanjan Filigree

Filigree is one the most important applied arts of province of Zanjan. Filigree is a kind of metalwork, and researchers have traced it back to 550 to 330 B.C. Many filigr...

Kapu of Khuzestan

Kapu Bafi or making Kapu is one of the handicrafts of Khuzestan, one of southern provinces of Iran. In the local dialect of Khuzestan or “Dezfuli”, “Kapu” refers to any s...

Crystal Craving of Alborz

Craving crystals is one of the most original and common cold methods of decorating crystal works tracing back to Achaemenid dynasty. Sassanid artists were very skillful i...

Fly on Persian Carpets and Rugs

Carpet or rug, defined as a precious textile fluffy ground cloth woven from cotton, wool and silk in some cases, is considered as one of the ancient industries of Iran; a...

Mekhraj Kari of Mashhad

There are many gemstone mines in Mashhad, the center of Razavi Khorasan province and its surrounding cities. That is why one of the prospering handicrafts of this provinc...

Marquetry of Western Azarbaijan

In Persian word, marquetry is called “Mo’aragh” which literally means “an object with trace of veins”. But in terms of handicrafts, Mo’aragh is a form of art where colorf...

Kalash or Giveh (espadrille) of Kurdistan

Giveh is the traditional espadrille of Iran that local people of Kordestan call “Kalash”. Kalash has become a part of daily life and culture of Kordestan and it is very p...

Ghoflsazi (locksmithing) of Chaleshtar

Chaleshtar is one of the oldest cities in the neighborhood of Shahr-e Kord, in the province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. One kind of Iranian handicrafts, of which the in...

Pottery of Lalejin

For a long time, the word pottery has intertwined with the word Lalejin in Iran, the name of an ancient city in the province of Hamedan, neighbor to the county of Bahar....

Chigh Bafi of Ilam

Chigh is the cover of the walls of nomadic people of Ilam province. This handicraft product is woven by the skillful hands of their women. According to the Dehkhoda word...

Tow Bafi of Birjand

Tow Bafi is the dominant handicraft of Khorashad village, one of the counties of Birjand in the South Khorasan. It was the first village of Iran that was registered as th...

Souzan Douzi of Turkmen

One the most beautiful and delicate of Iranian crafts are created by Turkmen women. It is called “Souzan Douzi” or making Souzan. The word Souzan means needle in Persian,...

Toreutics, Precious Artistic Metalworking

Toreutics is an Iranian field of art which is considered as handicrafts and artistic metalworking. There is no clear history on its background; however, according to some...

Embossed Kelims of Ilam

Embossed Kelims are one of the original and the most important handicrafts of province of Ilam in Iran. Like many other cities, Ilam has a long history of producing Kelim...

Semnan Felts

One of Semnan’s many handicrafts are felts that have been produced from a long time ago. The method of making felts are almost similar in different areas of Iran, but the...

Fame & Myth

Mahmud Farshchian of Isfahan

Mahmud Farshchian was born in 1308 AH in the city of Isfahan. His father, Haj Gholamreza Farshchian, was the representative of Carpet Company of Isfahan and dealt with ca...

Parvin E'tesami (East Azerbaijan)

Among the contemporary poets, there were not so many who can penetrate deeply into the hearts and also, there was as a few who was popular as she was. Her Diwan was publi...

Ferdowsi (Razavi Khorasan)

Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tousi was born in 329 AH (319 SH), but there is no certainty about the exact date. Although Ferdowsi has not said anything about his birthplace, there...

Shahriar

Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Behjat Tabrizi, known by his pen name Shahriar, was born in 1283 AH in Tabriz. His father was an honorable and reputed professional lawyer of Tabr...

Khwārizmī (Khorasan)

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the famous mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and historian, was born in 185 AH. There is no information in historic texts about his c...

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (Tehran)

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was born in 1285 SH in Ghasem Ali Khan alley located in Sangelaj district. He is one of the great founders of modern prose style and famous scholars. H...

Sohrab Sepehri (Kashan)

Sohrab Sepehri is considered as one of the unique contemporary poets, whose poems can be studied as modern poetry. He was from Kashan and ascendant of Lesan-ol-Molk, scho...

Kamal-ol-Molk (Isfahan)

Mirza Mohammad Ghaffari, known as Kamal-ol-Molk, the famous Iranian painter, was born in Kashan about 1270 AH. He spent his childhood in his home town and after finishing...

Kayhan Kalhor (Kermanshah)

Kayhan Kalhor is born on Azar 3, 1342 SH in Eslamabad-e-Gharb, Kermanshah Province. He is an Iranian Kamancheh and also Setar, Tanbur, and Shah Kaman player, and composer...

Hafez (Fars)

Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, son of Bahaʾ-al-Din, is the most famous poet and Sufi in the 8th century and one of the forth greatest Persian poets in the...

Majid Samii (Gilan)

Majid Samii, a physician and neurosurgeon, was born on Khordad 29, 1316 SH (19 June 1937) in Tehran. His family was originally from Gilan. He finished his high school edu...

Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is'haq Ardabili (Ardabil)

The ancestor of Safavid kings, Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili, was born in 650 AH in Ardabil. Being the 8th generation of Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, he was one of Sufi elders...

Dance & Local Games

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Qiqaj

Horse has a vital and mythical role in the life of nomads and villagers from the past so that the horse has a main role in many of their activities such as marriage, spor...

Bil Gardani

Nim Var city is one of the ancient cities related to Sasanid and Ashkanian eras in Iran its historical customs are still alive and one of them with the antiquity of two t...

Bakhtiari Dance

Dance is a beautiful and valuable ritual among Bakhtiari tribes which is the symbol of unity, sympathy, correlation and cooperation of them. Bakhtiari people are resolute...

Wrestling with Choukhe (Kurdish Wrestling)

Kurdish wrestling or wrestling with Choukhe is one of the oldest and most popular traditional and rural sports in Iran played in northern areas of Khorasan. Wrestling wit...

Tileh Bazi (Marble ball)

Tileh bazi is one of the nostalgic games of most Iranian children; a play with some small glass colorful filled marbles. In fact, this game has an ancient root among the...

Gol Ya Poch (Handy-Dandy)

Gol ya Poch (Handy-Dandy) game has deep roots in the childhood of different Iranian generations and it is even so popular among the adults. The exciting game of Gol ya Po...

Tanab Keshi

Tanab Keshi is one of the passionate and joyful folk sport that is done among the groups with different age and no gender limitation in the villages and cities of Iran fr...

Sistani Dance

Choob Bazi Dance was known as a folk sport in Sistan at the past time; since the usage of this word did not seem to be nice among people, it has been changed to Choob Baz...

Mazandarani Dance

One of the most dramatic Iranian dances is Mazandarani dance which is also known as "Selma", " Lak Sari Sema " or " Chakeh Sema ". This dance is hold along with music, si...

Chogan (Polo)

Polo, Iranian Royal Game Today introduced by Olympic international committee as one of the universal sports. Polo has been popular among the kings and Iranian grandee in...

Tarke Bazi (Choub Bazi, Cho Bazi)

Tarke Bazi is one of the old, local and martial games among the Iranian people, mostly performed in happy events and parties such as wedding party accompanied with music...

Bushehri Dance

Passionate Songs of Ports Residents Folk music has a significant role in the life of Bushehr people, from ceremonies to mourning events and during the time of work or chi...

Kabaddi (Zu)

Four thousand years of Zu Though, it is possible that the name of Kabaddi is not familiar to us, this sport is a combination of wrestles and rugby known as "Zu" in all pr...

Khorasani Dance (Choub Bazi)

Khorasan area is one of the exclusive regions in Iran, where different tribes live together despite differences in race and culture and it is due to its climatic variabil...

Equestrianism

Although Equestrianism has been done by many different types in different historical eras with specific functions in each time, it is also popular as one of the exciting...

Persian Foods

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