Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران | |
| Established | 14 October 1977 |
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| Location | Laleh Park, Tehran, Iran |
| Coordinates | 35°42′41″N 51°23′26″E / 35.71139°N 51.39056°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Ebad Reza Eslami |
| Curator | David Galloway, Kamran Diba (Both were first) |
| Architect | Kamran Diba, Nader Ardalan |
| Website | tmoca |
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Persian: موزه هنرهای معاصر تهران), also known as TMoCA, is among the largest art museums in Tehran and Iran. It has collections of more than 3,000 items that include 19th and 20th century's world-class European and American paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. TMoCA also has one of the greatest collections of Iranian modern and contemporary art.
The museum was inaugurated by Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi (Persian: فرح پهلوی) in 1977, just two years before the 1979 Revolution. TMoCA is considered to have the most valuable collections of modern Western masterpieces outside Europe and North America.