موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران | |
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  Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Location within Tehran | |
| Established | 1977 |
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| Location | Laleh Park Tehran Iran |
| Coordinates | 35°42′41″N 51°23′26″E / 35.71139°N 51.39056°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Ebad Reza Eslami[citation needed] |
| Curator | David Galloway, Kamran Diba[citation needed] |
| Architect | Kamran Diba, Nader Ardalan[1] |
| Website | tmoca |
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Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, (Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران), also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran. It has collections of more than 3,000 items that include 19th and 20th century's world-class European and American paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. TMoCA also has one of the greatest collections of Iranian modern and contemporary art.
The museum was inaugurated by Empress Farah Pahlavi (Persian: فرح پهلوی), née Farah Diba (دیبا), in 1977, just two years before the 1979 Revolution.[2][3] TMoCA is considered to have the most valuable collections of modern Western masterpieces outside Europe and North America.[4]
- ^ Dixon, John Morris (May 1978). "Cultural transplant". Progressive Architecture. Stamford, Connecticut: Reinhold Publishing Company, Inc.
Constructed to designs drawn up ten years ago by Kamran Diba, in association with Nader Ardalan—both young Iranian graduates of U.S. architectural schools—the building looks less dated than one might expect.
- ^ Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art: The Crown Jewel, The Harpers Bazaar Arabia
- ^ "Wild nights at the museum: Tehran in the late 70s – DW – 02/17/2017". dw.com. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ Iran Has Been Hiding One of the World’s Great Collections of Modern Art, Bloomberg