Iran reopens Music Museum

The Music Museum of Iran has been reopened after more than a decade during a ceremony held in the capital city of Tehran.

A group of veteran musicians and vocalists such as Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Hossein Alizadeh, Houshang Kamkar and Farhad Fakhreddini participated in the inauguration ceremony on Friday.

“Many people have helped refurbish the building, which was a ruined structure in 1994,” Tehran Times quoted museum curator Ali Moradkhani as saying.

“The museum has several sections and we aim to elevate it to a world-class museum,” he added.

The museum houses a variety of wind instruments, string instruments, regional instruments and national instruments as well as a library, an instrument-making workshop, and a gallery.

“The gallery also presents a collection of instruments belonging to maestros of traditional Persian music Ebrahim Qanbari-Mehr, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and Kayhan Kalhor,” Moradkhani said.

“The instruments are on loan and we hope officials will help us purchase the items in the near future.”

Moradkhani promised a bright future for the museum asking musicians.