Iran: Exhibitions and Conferences on Iranian Art, Culture and History

Exhibition & Conferences

The Iran Heritage Foundation
is a non-political UK registered foundation with the mission to increase awareness about, promote and preserve the history, languages and cultures of Iran.

The Iran Heritage Foundation is continuously engaged in supporting researches and organizing exhibitions, lectures and wide range of programmes intended to provide a forum to facilitate the study of Iran's culture both among students and the wider academic community.

Artistic Murals of Tehran's Metro Stations

Graphic works of Iranian artists:
Reza Abedini, Koorosh Darvishzadeh and Saed Meshki

Museums & Galleries
Classical and Contemporary Arts, Carpet, Fine Arts & Glassware and more.

Exhibition:
Shahnameh:
Heroic Times. Thousand Years of the Persian 'Book of Kings'.
19 March - 03 July 2011
Museum of Islamic Art (Pergamonmuseum), Berlin

Organised by:
Museum of Islamic Art & Berlin State Library

In 2010 the world celebrated the tenth centenary of the completion of the Persian 'Book of Kings'. Composed of more than 50,000 rhyming couplets, the 'Shah-nameh' is one of the greatest epics in the history of world literature. It is approximately twice as long as Homer's epics and ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
Shah 'Abbas
The Remaking of Iran
27 February - 14 June 2009

Organised by:
The British Museum and the Iran Heritage Foundation

This major exhibition explores seventeenth-century Iran through the reign and legacy of one of its most influential rulers, Shah 'Abbas I (reigned AD 1587–1629).

Shah 'Abbas was a stabilising force in Iran following a period of civil war and foreign ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
Photographic Exhibition, Films, Seminar - Introduction:
30 Years of Solitude
27 September 2008 - 10 January 2009
Asia House Gallery, London

Organised by:
Asia House and the Iran Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with New Hall, University of Cambridge

This exhibition brings together a fascinating selection of works by some of Iran's most talented and extraordinary women artists. Through photography and ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
The Song of the World:
The Art of Safavid Iran, 1501–1736
31 October 2007 - 07 January 2008
Louvre Museum, Paris

Organised by:
Louvre Museum

With a sumptuous array of works, this exhibition outlines the evolution of art in Iran under the Safavid Dynasty (1501–1736). Visual arts are ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
Persia, Thirty Centuries of Art And Culture
31 March - 16 September 2007
Hermitage Amsterdam

Organised by:
Hermitage Amsterdam

The Hermitage in St. Petersburg has a splendid collection of Persian works of art. It includes many interesting pieces covering the whole of Persian history from antiquity to the end of the Qajar dynasty (1785-1925)........... more details »»

Conference:
The Iranian Constitutional Revolution 1906-1911
30 July - 2 August 2006
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Organised by:
Iran Heritage Foundation and University of Oxford

It is a hundred years since the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906, the first event of its kind in the Middle East. The Revolution opened the way for cataclysmic change in Iran, heralding the modern era. It saw a period of unprecedented debate in a burgeoning press. It created new ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
Forgotten Empire:
The World of Ancient Persia (Achaemenid Persia)
9 September 2005 - 8 January 2006
The British Museum, London, UK

Organised by:
The British Museum in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation

The exhibition shows the splendour of Ancient Persia as reflected in the architecture, the sumptuousness of the material culture, and the sophistication of the administration. This is the legacy of the Great Kings such as Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes ........... more details »»

Conference:
The World of Achaemenid Persia
29 September - 1 October 2005

Organised by:
The British Museum and the Iran Heritage Foundation

This conference coincides with the forthcoming exhibition Forgotten Empire: the World of Ancient Persia which will also be held at the British Museum (9 September 2005 - 8 January 2006). Prior to Alexander's conquest in the 4th century BC, the Persian Empire was the mightiest the Middle East had yet seen. Ranging from Egypt in the west to ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
Wit and Wine:
A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
May 14 - October 30, 2005

Organised by:
Berkshire Museum

The slender, curving neck of a water bird; the pronounced shoulder of a zebu bull; a curious vessel with its cone-shaped head, slit-like nostrils and long body, resembling a crocodile-45 beautiful, technically sophisticated and often amusing ceramics of ancient Iran illustrate the 5,000-year ceramic tradition that flourished there until 100 BCE ........... more details »»

Exhibition:
Persia's Ancient Splendour (Persiens Antike Pracht)
28 November 2004 - 29 May 2005

Organised by:
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum

This exhibition is arranged by four topics and chronological development. In this exhibition you will receive an impression of the enormous virtuosity of ancient Iranian craftsmen ........... more details »»