Melli Bank Museum, a must-see spot in Tehran

The Melli Bank Museum is a beautiful historic building in downtown Tehran.

It features exemplary architectural techniques of the late Qajar era and includes a rich source of exquisite and valuable objects from different periods of Iran’s history.

The construction of the building started in 1933 and it was inscribed on the Iranian cultural heritage list in 2017.

The museum includes a collection of antiquities such as old tools and equipment used in the banking industry, gifts and presents given to Iranian officials by the foreign nations during the Achaemenid and Sassanid empires, and valuable works of art like paintings, calligraphy works, carpets, coins of Iran from the Achaemenid period to the modern era, devices used in the bank, and related documents.

Building of Melli Bank Museum has been constructed by a German architect, whose designs have been inspired by the building of the Achaemenid Empire era and a combination of the ancient Iranian and the European architecture.

The central hall of the museum has a high ceiling with skylights that make the interior beautifully illuminated.

Exhibiting beautiful and joyful gifts in a particular art spectrum, the museum is home to presents by different Iranian and foreign banks for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Bank Melli Iran.

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