Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

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The Museum is based on some traditional Persian elements such as Badgirs, and yet has a spiraling design reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The Museum has a sculpture Garden adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park.

Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art is one of Iran's finest museums, located in Tehran.

Inaugurated in 1977, and built adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park, the museum was designed by Architect hot-shot Kamran Diba, who employed elements from traditional Persian architecture. It is considered to have one of the largest collection of valuable Western modern art outside Europe and the U.S.A..

The Museum contains works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Van Gogh, James Ensor, Edouard Vuillard, André Segonzac, Jules Pascin, André Derain, Louis Valtat, Georges Rouault, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Max Ernst, René Magritte, George Grosz, Diego Rivera, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Peter Phillips, James Rosenquist, Fritz Winter, Joan Miro, William Turnbull, Victor Vasarely, Adolph Gottlieb, Richard Hamilton, Georges Braque, Jean Paul Riopelle, Edvard Munch, Pierre Soulages, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast, Franz Kupka, Max Beckmann, James Whistler, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi, Giacomo Balla, and Marcel Duchamp, among many other artist celebrities.