Museum of Music
The Museum of Music, situated in Tajrish Square in Tehran, was established to conserve the precious works of music enthusiasts and preserve the country’s musical heritage. It is a comprehensive museum that houses a gallery of musical instruments, including percussion, string, wind, and traditional stringed instruments. Additionally, it features a museum treasure, an audio and visual archive, a specialized library, a workshop that displays the process of instrument construction, a unique warehouse for optimizing instruments, a repository of written products, and even a coffee shop. The audio-visual section is also worth exploring.
History
The museum was originally a residential building constructed in 1972. In 2003, it underwent renovations to make it suitable for its location and space. It was finally opened as the Museum of Music in 2008.
Museum architecture
The Tehran Museum of Music is housed in a three-story building with a total area of approximately 3,650 square meters, including an infrastructure of around 1,400 square meters.
Halls of the Museum of Music
The showrooms feature a variety of instruments including percussion, wind, strung, traditional, and regional stringed instruments. You can admire these beautiful instruments, some of which are on loan from famous musicians like Mohammad Reza Darvishi and Majid Kiani. Furthermore, an audio information system acts as a narrator to introduce you to the instruments in more detail. The music museum houses about 240 instruments of 200 different types in total.
The ground floor has a hall dedicated to string and wind instruments, which is divided into two parts. The wind instruments section houses an assortment of self-sounding instruments.
The museum houses a remarkable audio and video archive that preserves the memory of Mohammad Ali Golshan Ebrahimi. He dedicated years of hard work to collecting it and generously donated it to the museum. Over time, the archive has grown to include other valuable collections that are currently being digitized by the museum staff.
If you visit the ground floor percussion hall, you will be able to view a variety of one-sided and two-sided percussion instruments. Additionally, in the traditional instruments hall, you can find a range of string instruments and traditional Iranian percussion instruments like the Tonbak.
When exploring the museum’s treasure trove, you’ll discover a fascinating collection of musical artifacts. Among them are Ali Tajvidi’s clock, Heshmat Sanjari’s conductor’s baton, Hossein Malek’s santur, and Taghi Masoudieh’s desktop calendar. Each piece offers a unique insight into the world of music and its celebrated figures. Other parts of the museum include the museum library and the music recording and playing hall. In the music recording and playing hall, there is a section related to old music playing and recording devices.
The library of this museum has an exquisite collection of 3,000 books in 6,000 volumes, of which 1,600 titles are in the field of art and literature, especially music.
Visiting hours
The Tehran Museum of Music operates from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays but remains closed on Saturdays.
