Moghadam museum

Hey steamians! 🙂
What's up?
Today i would like to share with you one of the great old house in tehran which is be museum right now.

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Moghadam museum , A historic priceless house in Tehran.

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The house in which this quaint museum is housed belongs once belonged to Mohsen Moghadam, the son of Tehran’s mayor during Nassereddin Shah’s rule ( one of the Qajar king ). Today, it has been converted into a museum to show historic artefacts, valuables that offer you a glimpse into the past. Moghadam, once owner of this house was also very interested in art works and studied art in Switzerland as well.
Mohsen moghadam returned home after graduating in painting, art and archeology in 1315 with his French wife, Selma, and settled in father's home ( current museum).

Beside their scientific activities, they dedicated life to collecting historical objects from around the world and displaying them in their house.
Moghadam installed many of the valuable collection like gems,tiles ( Various Iranian tile -works narrating many Iranian tales also catch eyes at each corner ), paintings, pieces of furniture and prehistoric objects which was inspire by traditional and historical spaces in his house.

In 1972 , moghadam ( the professor of the university of Tehran) divoted his historical house to the exquisite collections of the university of Tehran and left this world in 1982. After his death the house was in custodianship of his life-companion until 1990 when she handed it to the University of Tehran.
He combined art and history to design Tehran university logo representing an image of stucco seals of Sassanid period.

The couple living in Moqadam’s building decided never to marry and instead consider the historical objects in their house as their children which they should look after and leave for the next generations.

The house now mentioned as Moqadam’s Museum was one of the luxurious houses of the Qajar period and has the two normally found sections in the old Iranian houses called biriouni (public wing) and andarouni (private wing).

A small beautiful garden with several turquoise ponds and many colorful trees such as pomegranates and cedars embraces the main building and its surrounding areas.

A cozy cafe in the garden also gives the chance to have a sip of juice or coffee, while enjoying the spectacular view of the museum.

The best season to visit this attractive house is in spring.

اگر مسيرتون به بازار و يا مركز شهر خورد حتما سري به خانه ي مقدم بزنيد و خستگي يك روز شلوغ رو اونجا به در كنيد . 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

http://museums.ut.ac.ir

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Address :
No.249, between Vali-e-asr & Sheikh Hadi street | Emam khomeini street ,Tehran,Iran.