TEHRAN -- If you happen to be in the Iranian capital and like to enjoy seeing paintings dating back to more than 50 years ago, make sure to visit Mellat Palace Museum in northern Tehran.
Mellat Palace Museum in Tehran’s Saadabad Historical Complex, also known as the Nations Art Museum, is a valuable art treasure that houses paintings and voluminous artistic works created by pioneers of contemporary Iranian art dating back to the 1960s and 1970s.
The Iranian artists whose works are on display at the museum are: Sohrab Sepehri, Seyyed Muhammad Ehsaei, Hussein Zendehroodi, Faramarz Pilaram, Behjat Sadr, Tavakkol Esmaeili (Mash Esmaeil), Iran Doroudi, and Leyla Matindaftari.
The foreign works of arts are from Marc Chagall, Herbert Bayer, Stanislav Ostrovsky and César Baldaccini.