The building that houses Tehran’s Post and Communications Museum today was initially built in 1928 as the Ministry of Post and Telegraph. The architect, Nikolai Markov, was a Russian immigrant who remained in Iran after the October revolution and established himself as one of the main architects of the public buildings and government new institutions.
In August 1927 Iranian men were required by law to replace their Iranian-style hats and turbans with a new hat, designed based on the French military kepi, called Pahlavi.
A collection of pre-revolutionary Iranian cigarettes made in the years between the 1920s and 1978.
“Regained Glory” (published in 1974, illustrated by Dino Attanasio) is a comic book that narrates the official pro-Shah history of post-WWII Iran up to early 1970s. The book is targeted towards the young adults.
