Louvre Museum in Tehran

The iconic Louvre museum packed up and shipped for the first time some of its artworks to Tehran. The exhibition at Iran’s national museum, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary, features 50 artworks, including a 2,400-year-old Egyptian sphinx, a bust of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, Iranian artifacts and drawings by western artists. The exhibition consists four sections: Birth of a Collection, Birth of a Museum, Globalization Dream and, An Alive Museum. It can be said that The Louvre Museum has just opened the first large-scale exhibition organized by a major Western museum in Iran.  The Louvre exhibition in Tehran will host visitors at the National Museum during the week from 9 am to 5pm.

Louvre Museum in Tehran