Museum of the Islamic Era

Museum of the Islamic Era

موزه دوران اسلامی
Entrance of the Museum of the Islamic Era
Location of the museum in the city Tehran
Established	1972; 51 years
Location	National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Coordinates	35°41′13″N 51°24′55″E / 35.687069°N 51.415413°E / 35.687069; 51.415413
Type	National history museum
Collections	Timurid Safavid Qajar Islam Seljuk Ilkhanate Islamic
Public transit access	Imam Khomeini station, Line 1, Tehran Metro

The Museum of the Islamic Era (Persian: موزه دوران اسلامی) is one of the museums of the National Museum of Iran, located near Imam Khomeini Square, Tehran, Iran.^[1] Most of the objects in this museum are selected from the works of scientific excavations or prestigious collections such as Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble of Sheikh Safi al-Din.^[2] The National Museum of Iran has two main sections: Museum of Ancient Iran and Museum of the Islamic Era; The Museum of the Islamic Era is dedicated to displaying historical monuments and objects of post-Islamic Iran.^[3][4]

In the Museum of the Islamic Era, a large section is dedicated to The Qurans and manuscripts, in which gold-plated Qurans with Kufic scripts of early Islam can be seen. In another part, there are inscriptions of manuscripts or Quran and hadiths in the form of Epigraphy or Mihrab.^[5]