Best places: Museums in Tehran, Iran

Covering 110 hectares, this area features scenic grounds & several museums in former royal palaces.

Opulent palace complex in bucolic surrounds featuring majestic residences, landscaped gardens & art.

Restored summer gardens in a peaceful 1800s palace that is also a national monument.

Collections of Islamic art & antiquities displayed in a striking tiled mansion with scenic gardens.

Collection of ancient bowls, pitchers & other vessels showcased in a posh, old-fashioned mansion.

This museum at the Ferdows Garden features exhibits on Iranian cinema in a 19th-century building.

👍👍 One of the most underrated museums in Tehran. You can see various instruments and where they come from in a beautiful house.

👍👍 An eye-catching and simple palace in the Saadabad complex. You can walk between 15 to 20 minutes to get to this place. Green Palace was the residential place of Reza Shah. It has beautiful details and the green colour is used inside as well as outside. Recommended!

👍👍 Nice and well-designed palace that I recommend you to visit once!

Historic house museum exploring time via displays of antique clocks & watches, with a cafe & garden.

Early 20th-century flower gardens with fountains, plus scale replicas of Iranian mosques & forts.

Terracotta tablets & painted pottery from across Iranian history in the basement of a marble tower.

Museum with a collection of traditional Iranian art dating from 2000 BCE to the early 1900s CE.

Museum displaying its collection of Iranian-made rugs dating back to the 16th century.

👍👍 I found the house quite quaint and full of character. The house is not very large so don't go in big groups. The house is as it was when these writers lived there so it feels like a well-lived in house. It's like you've popped by to see a neighbour. I liked the garden as well. The house has a touch...

👍 The palace hosted significant royal events during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah. It was one of his two significant palaces in addition to Golestan Palace. The palace was identified with the Shah's persona in the 1950s. The palace hosted all three marriage ceremonies of the Shah. The Iranian weddin...

👍 2 Brothers went to a travel around the world ~70 years ago with bikes, it takes 7 years to visiting Asia, Australia and ... , then the Citroen offer them a car as a gift to travel to Africa and ... it takes another 3 years and after 10 years they came back home with lots of memories and souvenirs. S...

Grand facility with calligraphy manuscripts & books, plus exhibits of paintings, coins & artifacts.

👍 I don’t call this place a museum! It’s where Professor Hesabi lived and definitely worths visiting since he was one the most significant contributors to engineering specially in the field of physics and construction. There are also many biographic posters on the walls. The newly opened cafe; Jaryan...

This military museum features a shrine to martyrs, weapons exhibits, a shooting simulator & more.