Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran)

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Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art (Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران ) 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 Kamran Diba, who employed elements from traditional Persian architecture.

It is considered to be the largest collection of valuable Western modern art outside Europe and the U.S.A. Most of the Western art is kept in storage however, inaccessible to the public:

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/29/artnews.iran

The Museum contains works by Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Van Gogh, James Ensor, Edouard Vuillard, André Dunoyer de 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, František Kupka, Max Beckmann, James Whistler, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi, Giacomo Balla, and Marcel Duchamp, among many other artists.