The Victoria & Albert Museum dedicates an exhibition to the culture of Iran.

Iran has been chosen by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as the theme for an impressive exhibition that will be set up in autumn 2020. It will be called "Epic Iran" and, according to the Financial Times, it will be the largest exhibition on Iranian art and manufacture of the United Kingdom in the last hundred years.

For this project, the Victoria & Albert Museum  intends to collect about 300 objects from 5mila years of Iranian history, from illuminated manuscripts to ancient carpets and, again, refined ceramics and worked metals.

In the words of Tristram Hunt, director of the museum of applied arts and design, the Victoria & Albert Museum has begun discussions with the Iranian embassy in London and the National Museum of Iran to define potential loans.

According to Hunt, in fact, the "militaristic language" and the "intensification of sanctions" by the United States undoubtedly hinder the possibility of a peaceful dialogue with Iranian institutions. The exhibition, as stated in The Art Newspaper, should include works on loan from Russia, Paris, the United Kingdom and Iran.

For example, from the Sarikhani Collection, an English private collection based in Oxfordshire, the illuminated manuscript will come on loan Shahname by Shah Tahma (1525-35). “Epic Iran” will put elements of the Iranian tradition in contact with those of other nations, providing a sum of important information even to those who are completely fasting on this millenary culture.

Opening scheduled for the 17 October 2020.