It had been a while since we’d visited a museum. I was begin­ning to itch because of it.  So to enterain ourselves during our first full day in Tehran we decided to check­out the National Museum of Iran.

It’s the perfect size for a visitor to look at the entire col­lec­tion in 2-hours, meaning you’re sat­is­fied and content when you leave rather than over­whelmed and tired.

You’ll never believe how much it cost to visit the museum! It was .50 cents per adult! So Chris and I spent $1.00. Unbelievable.

The museum very pro­fes­sion­ally dis­plays its col­lec­tion of bone tools, Palaeolithic lithics (stone tools), metal and clay carvings from animals to humans and grand arti­facts from the famous site of Persepolis, which we’ll be vis­it­ing at the end of our trip.  I’m simply in love with the Persepolis carvings. I love the way they carved the beards, hair and turbans. I couldn’t tell you why. I just really like it.

One shock­ing thing on display is this man’s pre­served skull. He died in a salt mine 1700’s years ago. Scientists have con­cluded he was around 37-years old when he died. There is extens­ive damage to his skull and eye socket, estim­ated to have occurred before death.

A little bronze figure about 4–5 inches in height. I really liked this guy.

One of the bull heads at the top of a very classic Persian Persepolis capital. (Sorry the photo is out of focus.)

Persian lancers and archers on the outer side of a stair­case that use to be located in a Persepolis palace.

A human-headed capital from Persepolis.

A relief that used to be located in the Treasury Palace of Persepolis. It’s from the 5^th Century B. C.

An animal figure made out of clay. So cute.

Giant clay pots, fant­ast­ic­ally col­oured and designed from the 5^th millennium!

A fant­astic example of Persian artistry.