Urmia Museum with 30,000 historical objects, is considered as one of the richest and largest Iranian museums. This museum consists of two main parts, archeology and anthropology, and over the years, different sections have been added to them. Valuable artifacts detected from ancient hills, belonging to the time from Neolithic period to the end of Qajar are displayed in the archeological hall. The tradition and culture of people from late Safavid era up to now are exhibited in the anthropology hall. In the prehistoric and historic section, Urmia Museum holds various rocky, pottery and metal works from the Neolithic to the early Islamic era. Stone made tools and instruments belonging to the 6th and 7th millennium BC, fine beautiful pottery from the 5th millennium BC, decorative metal works and bronze lion sculpture along with cuneiform scripts, silver coins, glass containers of Sassanid period and jewelry are some but not all the objects that are collected in Urmia Museum. In decorative arts section, interesting objects such as verses from Holy Quran written in Naskh and Nastaliq script which are two types of Iranian calligraphic handwriting, and miniatures from 19th and 20th centuries are provided. There are coins from the pre-Islamic era, as well as coins from the Islamic period. This museum was established in 1967 and receives many tourists every year.
