Where to See Persian Art in Canada and the USA

In Canada, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto holds ten paintings from the Shahnameh made for Shah Tahmasp in the 16th century, and in the United States the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds 78 painted pages from the same book and shows art from Iran and its neighbours in 15 galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. The 17 museums in 14 cities listed on this page say on their own websites that they hold or show Persian painting, manuscripts or other Persian art.

The table below lists each museum by city, then each city has its own section with the gallery name and a link to the museum's page. The page ends in Vancouver, where you can see contemporary Persian painting at our gallery. It is part of our guide to contemporary Iranian and Persian painting.

Key takeaways

• The Aga Khan Museum says its Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp holdings are ten paintings out of the 258 in the original manuscript.
• The Met says it opened 15 Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia in 2011, for an Islamic art collection of more than 15,000 objects.
• LACMA's record for its Ardabil Carpet, dated 1539 to 1540, lists it on view in the gallery "Persianate Arts: The Ardabil Carpet and Manuscript Painting" in the David Geffen Galleries, which opened on 19 April 2026.
• The San Diego Museum of Art has a gallery named Arts of Iran, with pages from the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd, according to the museum.
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston says it opened the Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds on 5 March 2023, with two galleries of Iranian art from the Afshar Collection.
• The Royal Ontario Museum's page says its Wirth Gallery of the Middle East, which covers a region reaching to Iran, is temporarily closed while the museum refreshes its galleries.

Persian art in North American museums, city by city

Museums in Canada and the United States whose own pages show Persian or Iranian holdings or galleries, checked 27 September 2026

City	Museum	What the museum's page says	Gallery or collection
Toronto	Aga Khan Museum	Ten paintings from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp; a permanent collection of over 1,200 works from the 9th to the 21st century	Permanent Collection
Toronto	Royal Ontario Museum	More than 1,000 artifacts from a region stretching to Iran; gallery temporarily closed	Wirth Gallery of the Middle East
New York	The Metropolitan Museum of Art	78 painted pages of the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp; finds from Nishapur in Iran in galleries 452 and 453; the Emperor's Carpet in gallery 462	Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
New York	Brooklyn Museum	Paintings, ceramics and textiles from Safavid and Qajar Iran, including Qajar oil paintings	Arts of the Islamic World galleries, reinstalled in 2022
New York	The Morgan Library & Museum	Persian manuscripts, including the Manafi-i Hayavan, made in Maragha in the 1290s	Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts department
Washington	Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art	Islamic paintings; Persian calligraphy shown in 2014 to 2015; ancient Iranian metalwork on permanent view	Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World; Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran
Los Angeles	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	The Ardabil Carpet of 1539 to 1540, shown with manuscript painting	Persianate Arts: The Ardabil Carpet and Manuscript Painting, David Geffen Galleries
San Diego	San Diego Museum of Art	Persian painting, ceramics and contemporary work by artists from Iran and the diaspora	Arts of Iran
San Francisco	Asian Art Museum	600 objects from Afghanistan to Turkey, including Iran; strongest in Persian ceramics and metalwork	The Persian World and West Asia
Cambridge	Harvard Art Museums	Shahnameh and Khamsa folios, Persian lacquer and an album of Persian paintings and drawings	Room 2550, Art from Islamic Lands
Boston	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	A page from the Great Mongol Shahnama, Iran, 1317 to 1335, featured on the gallery page	Arts of Islamic Cultures Gallery
Chicago	Art Institute of Chicago	A Safavid page from the Khamsa of Nizami and art made under the Mongols in Iran	Gallery 143
Baltimore	Walters Art Museum	Islamic manuscripts including works by Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez and Jami	Islamic Manuscripts collection
Detroit	Detroit Institute of Arts	A rooster-headed ceramic ewer from Iran among its Islamic holdings	Arts of Asia and the Islamic World department
Cleveland	Cleveland Museum of Art	Islamic collection whose strongest holdings are miniature paintings; a Safavid Haft Paykar page from Shiraz	Gallery 116 (installation of 2021 to 2022)
Houston	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	Shahnameh paintings, oil paintings, lustre ceramics and Safavid silk carpets from the Afshar Collection	Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds
Seattle	Seattle Art Museum	Persian paintings, including a Shahnameh page of the Simorgh returning Zal to his father	Islamic Art collection

Before you go

Persian paintings are works on paper, and paper is sensitive to light. The Canadian Conservation Institute gives 50 lux as the light level for works on paper, a third of the 150 lux it gives for oil paintings. The Aga Khan Museum has published videos on how it protects objects from light and on how its curators choose which manuscript paintings to put on display. The Art Institute of Chicago says of its Islamic galleries that "artworks go on and off view as installations rotate". So a painting you have read about may be off view on the day you visit. Check the museum's page for the object, or ask the museum, before you travel for one work.

Our page on famous Persian paintings names the best-known single works and the museums that hold them, and our page on Persian miniature painting explains what to look for when you stand in front of one.

Toronto

Aga Khan Museum

The Aga Khan Museum says its permanent collection holds over 1,200 works, "including manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, and textiles from the 9th to the 21st century", and that its core was assembled by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (1933 to 2003), who began collecting in the 1950s while studying at Harvard. The museum's page for its painting "The Death of Zahhak" (AKM155) says the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp is represented in the collection by ten paintings out of 258, among them "The Court of Kayumars" (AKM165). It attributes both to the painter Sultan Muhammad, and reports the view of the scholar S. C. Welch that "The Death of Zahhak", c. 1535, was his last painting for the manuscript. The museum is at 77 Wynford Drive. Our page on Persian-Canadian artists covers its opening and its 2017 exhibition of contemporary Iranian art, and our page on the Shahnameh in painting tells the story of Zahhak.

Royal Ontario Museum

The ROM's Wirth Gallery of the Middle East presents more than 1,000 artifacts in themes such as documents and writing, technology, spirituality and religion, art in life, and arms and armour. The museum's page says the gallery covers the Fertile Crescent, "that stretches from the Eastern Mediterranean and Iraq to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula", from the Palaeolithic Age to the 20th century. On 27 September 2026 the same page said: "The Wirth Gallery of the Middle East is temporarily closed while we refresh our galleries." Check the page before you plan a visit.

New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's Islamic art department says its collection of more than 15,000 objects dates from the seventh to the twenty-first century, and that in 2011 it opened 15 Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia. The department page says finds from the Met's own excavations at Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, carried out in 1935 to 1939 and in 1947, are on view in galleries 452 and 453. The Met's essay on the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp says the museum has 78 of that manuscript's pages with paintings, and that the Great Mongol Shahnameh of the 1330s is also in its collection. The Met's collection record for the Emperor's Carpet, a Persian carpet of the second half of the 16th century, lists it in gallery 462. Our page on Persian rugs and Persian painting explains that carpet.

Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum says its Arts of the Islamic World holdings include "paintings, ceramics, and textiles from Safavid and Qajar Iran". Its collection page says gifts from Charles K. and Irma Wilkinson in the 1960s and 1970s included "important oil paintings from Qajar period Iran, such as Prince Yahya", and that a years-long renovation and reinstallation of the Arts of the Islamic World galleries was completed in 2022. The gallery page lists themes such as Rulers and Authority, Palatial Surroundings and the Literary World, and highlights the museum's collection of Qajar paintings. Harvard Art Museums describes the 19th century, under the Qajar dynasty, as "an era of heightened image-making in Iran"; our page on Qajar painting explains the style.

The Morgan Library & Museum

The Morgan's researchers' guide says its manuscript collection "has significant examples of Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, and Persian manuscripts", and that the Library holds "a small but choice collection of Islamic and Indian manuscripts and single miniatures". Its online exhibition Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan names the Manafi-i Hayavan, "The Benefits of Animals", as "one of the finest surviving Persian examples". The guide dates that manuscript (MS M.500) to the 1290s and places it in Maragha, in Persia. The exhibition itself ran from 21 October 2011 to 29 January 2012. We did not find a permanent gallery for this material on the Morgan's site, so check its exhibition listings before you go.

Washington

Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

The National Museum of Asian Art has two buildings on the National Mall: the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Smithsonian's page for the museum lists "Islamic paintings and metalware" among its collections, and two long-term displays: Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World, open since 14 October 2017, and Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran, a permanent display of ancient Iranian metalwork opened on the same day. The museum's exhibition Nasta'liq: The Genius of Persian Calligraphy, shown in the Sackler Gallery from 13 September 2014 to 3 May 2015, presented more than twenty works dated 1400 to 1600. Its page says the only known signed work by Mir Ali Tabrizi, the calligrapher said to have invented the script, is the Freer Gallery's copy of Khusraw and Shirin by Nizami. Our page on Persian calligraphy in painting explains nastaliq.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LACMA opened its David Geffen Galleries, the new home of its permanent collection, on 19 April 2026. The museum's record for the Ardabil Carpet, one of a signed and dated pair made in 1539 to 1540, lists it "On view" in "Persianate Arts: The Ardabil Carpet and Manuscript Painting". LACMA says the carpet's design, a central medallion with pendants and corner pieces, is "ultimately derived from contemporary and earlier bookbinding and manuscript illumination". Its partner carpet is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

San Diego

San Diego Museum of Art

The San Diego Museum of Art has a gallery named Arts of Iran. The museum's page says Iran has fostered "glass, ceramics, metalwork, lacquerware, and arts of the book", and that in addition to historic works from its permanent collection, it collects contemporary art by artists from Iran, Central Asia and the Persianate diaspora, which "may be featured in the Arts of Iran gallery". The page features a painting of Khusraw and Shirin hunting lions from a dispersed copy of Nizami's Khamsa, Iran, c. 1580, a gift of Edwin Binney 3rd, and a page dated c. 1560 from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. It also shows Fading Memories (2021) by Shadi Yousefian, on loan.

San Francisco

Asian Art Museum

The Asian Art Museum groups this material as The Persian World and West Asia. Its gallery page says the collection holds 600 objects "from Afghanistan to Turkey (and including Iran, Uzbekistan, and Iraq)", from ancient times to today, in media including ceramic vessels, tiles, metalwork, jades and calligraphy. It says the strength of the collection "lies in ancient Persian ceramics and metalwork, as well as in Persian ceramics from the 11th through the 14th centuries". The museum says the works in its galleries "are rotated regularly".

Boston and Cambridge

Harvard Art Museums

Harvard's Room 2550 on Level 2, Art from Islamic Lands: The Middle East and North Africa, arranges the museums' Islamic art in three eras: early Islamic (650 to 1050), medieval (1050 to 1450) and early modern (1450 to 1800). Harvard's exhibition pages show the Persian side of the collection. In Harmony (31 January to 1 June 2013) showed works from the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection, which the museum says includes "illustrated manuscripts of medieval epic poems", among them folios of the Shahnameh and the Khamsa, and Persian lacquerware. Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran (26 August 2017 to 7 January 2018) showed lacquer, lithography, photography and painting of the Qajar period. The museum's record for An Album of Persian Paintings and Drawings (19.2015), on loan from Abolala Soudavar, describes 20 folios naming Persian artists active from the 18th to the mid-19th century.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The MFA's Arts of Islamic Cultures Gallery is divided into spaces on themes such as Arabic calligraphy and on single traditions such as Ottoman Turkey and Mughal India. The gallery page features a painting from the Great Mongol Shahnama, "Mihran Sitad choosing one of the Khagan's five daughters", Iran, 1317 to 1335, in ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper. The museum says its Islamic collection was established in 1870, the year the MFA was founded.

Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute says Islamic works are on view in Gallery 143, and that a more extensive display would follow a reinstallation in the first half of 2026. Its page for the new Islamic galleries describes a section on "the later great empires of Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, and Mughal India", and a display on art made under the Mongols in Iran between the mid-13th and mid-14th centuries, which it calls "an especially rich area of the collection". Its highlights include "The Ascent of the Prophet to Heaven", a Safavid page from the Khamsa of Nizami, c. 1600, and a Safavid blue-and-white dish of the 17th century.

Baltimore

Walters Art Museum

The Walters says its Islamic manuscripts were "created across the breadth of the Islamic world and date from the 9th through the 19th century". Its online listing of the collection includes manuscripts by the Persian poets Ferdowsi, Rumi, Hafez and Jami, and by Nizami. The museum made images of these manuscripts with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2008 to 2010, so you can page through them online before a visit. We did not find a page naming a permanent gallery for them, so ask the museum what is on view.

Detroit

Detroit Institute of Arts

The DIA's 2024 announcement of the exhibition The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World, on view from 22 September 2024 to 5 January 2025, said 16 of the works came from the DIA's own collection, including "a charming rooster-headed ceramic ewer from Iran (ca. 1200)". The same release names Katherine Kasdorf as the DIA's associate curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World. The DIA's collection pages refused automated requests, so we could not confirm which Persian works are on view today.

Cleveland

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art says most of its 178 artworks from Islamic lands were made in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Turkey between the 8th and 17th centuries, and that "the strongest holdings are in miniature paintings". The museum's page for its Art of the Islamic World installation, dated 21 May 2021 to 31 May 2022, placed it in gallery 116; check the current gallery before you go. The page features "Bahram Visits the White Domed Pavilion on Friday", a page from the Haft Paykar of Nizami made in Shiraz in the Safavid period, dated c. 1560 to 1580. Our page on the Khamsa of Nizami in painting covers Nizami's poems in painting.

Houston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The MFAH opened the Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds on 5 March 2023. The museum's release says the six galleries hold its own Islamic art together with Iranian works on extended loan from the Hossein Afshar Collection, which covers Iranian art from the 7th to the 19th century. Galleries 2 and 3 show early and later Iranian art from that collection: paintings from the Shahnameh, "large-scale oil paintings", lustre ceramics, and "monumental silk carpets from the apex of Safavid carpet production". Gallery 5, Blue and White between China and Iran, shows Persian blue-and-white ceramics.

Seattle

Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum's online collection highlights for Islamic art include Persian paintings: "The Simurgh returning Zal to his Father, page from a Shahnama of Firdausi", "Khosrow Discovers Shirin at her Bath", "Bahram Gur in the White Pavilion" and "Portrait of a Safavid Prince". A post on the museum's blog by its staff photographer Alborz Kamalizad says Shirin Neshat's video work Tooba entered the collection in 2015. The online listing does not say which of these works are on view, so check with the museum.

Vancouver: contemporary Persian painting at VanArtHub

We found no Vancouver museum page that lists Persian holdings or a Persian gallery. The Museum of Anthropology at UBC showed Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists from 20 April to 15 September 2013. The museum's page explains that safar is the Persian word for voyage, and lists 16 artists, among them Parviz Tanavoli, Farhad Moshiri and Ali Banisadr.

Our gallery is at 1242 Davie Street in Vancouver's West End, between Bute and Jervis. Our visit page says you can walk in during opening hours, every day of the week, or book a private viewing. If you want to see a particular painting, call ahead with its name and we will confirm it is on the wall that day. Every piece is an original, signed painting.

For Persian painting, start with Kamal al-Din Ghotb, who has practised Persian painting for 41 years and works in the classical miniature tradition in oil and gold on paper. His works include the Shahnameh scene Siyavash Passing Through the Fire, the battle page Naghsh-e Khial and two album pages, Muraqqa: The Blue Robe and Muraqqa: The Gold Shamseh; the full set is in the Kamal al-Din Ghotb collection. For contemporary work, Melina Ghaemi is an Iranian-Canadian abstract expressionist, and Amir Fazelian's page says he reimagines Persian mythology. If you buy online, shipping to Canada and the USA is free and insured, and every piece has a 14-day trial: return it within 14 days of delivery for a full refund, and we pay the return shipping. Our page on how to buy Iranian art covers provenance and import rules.

Frequently asked questions

Which museum in Canada holds pages from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp?

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto holds ten paintings from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, out of 258 in the original manuscript, according to the museum. They include "The Court of Kayumars" and "The Death of Zahhak", both attributed to the painter Sultan Muhammad. The museum's permanent collection holds over 1,200 works from the 9th to the 21st century.

Is the Middle East gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum open?

The Royal Ontario Museum's Wirth Gallery of the Middle East was temporarily closed on 27 September 2026, according to the museum's own page, while the museum refreshes its galleries. The gallery presents more than 1,000 artifacts from a region the ROM describes as stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean and Iraq to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Check the page for a reopening date.

How many galleries does the Met have for Islamic art?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has 15 Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, opened in 2011 after a renovation, according to the Met. The Met's Islamic collection holds more than 15,000 objects, including 78 painted pages from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp and finds from its excavations at Nishapur in Iran.

Which US museum has a gallery called Arts of Iran?

The San Diego Museum of Art has a gallery called Arts of Iran, according to the museum. The gallery shows historic Persian works from the permanent collection, such as a Khamsa painting of Khusraw and Shirin hunting lions given by Edwin Binney 3rd, and the museum says it may also feature contemporary art by artists from Iran, Central Asia and the Persianate diaspora.

Where can I see the Ardabil carpet in Los Angeles?

The Ardabil carpet in Los Angeles is at LACMA, where the museum's record lists it on view in the gallery "Persianate Arts: The Ardabil Carpet and Manuscript Painting" in the David Geffen Galleries. Those galleries opened on 19 April 2026. The carpet is dated 1539 to 1540, and its partner is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Which New York museum has Qajar oil paintings?

The Brooklyn Museum holds Qajar oil paintings from Iran, including the portrait Prince Yahya, given by Charles K. and Irma Wilkinson in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the museum. Its Arts of the Islamic World galleries, reinstalled in 2022, also hold paintings, ceramics and textiles from Safavid Iran, and the gallery page highlights its collection of Qajar paintings.

What Persian manuscript does the Morgan Library hold?

The Morgan Library & Museum in New York holds the Manafi-i Hayavan, "The Benefits of Animals", made in Maragha in the 1290s (MS M.500). The Morgan calls it one of the finest surviving Persian examples of such manuscripts. The library also holds other Persian manuscripts and, in its own words, "a small but choice collection of Islamic and Indian manuscripts and single miniatures".

What Persian art does the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston show?

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston shows Persian art from the Hossein Afshar Collection in two of the six Hossein Afshar Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds, opened on 5 March 2023. According to the museum, these include Shahnameh paintings, large oil paintings, lustre ceramics and Safavid silk carpets, lent on an extended loan.

Where can I see Persian art in Washington, DC?

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington shows Persian art in its Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Smithsonian lists the long-term displays Engaging the Senses: Arts of the Islamic World and Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran. The Freer also holds the only known signed work by the calligrapher Mir Ali Tabrizi.

Why should I check before visiting a museum to see one Persian painting?

A Persian painting on paper may be off view on the day you visit, because displays change. The Art Institute of Chicago says its Islamic artworks "go on and off view as installations rotate", and the Canadian Conservation Institute gives 50 lux as the light level for works on paper. Check the museum's page for the object, or ask the museum, before you travel.

Where can I buy a Persian miniature painting in Vancouver?

Persian miniature paintings are for sale in Vancouver at VanArtHub, 1242 Davie Street, in the West End. The gallery shows classical miniatures in oil and gold by Kamal al-Din Ghotb, who has practised Persian painting for 41 years. Its visit page says you can walk in during opening hours or book a private viewing, and every piece ships with a 14-day trial.

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Checked 27 September 2026. If something here is out of date, write to us and we will correct it.