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This museum was established by a devoted villager whose love for his home brought him back to his village to fulfill his dream.With a lot of effort, Dr. Ali Asghar Jahangir continue his studies in the US where he got his Ph.D. When he came back to Iran, he placed all he had collected into a museum, which he dedicated to the village. Established in 1981, as an entrepreneurial activity, at a time when facilities like telephones and asphalt roads were still absent in the village, the village was granted an anthropology museum. He was also a great support to the people to foster herbal business and established the herbal museum in 1986.

Now visitors need to take cobble-stoned stairs to reach the museums on top of the village. The wooden door is open to people all the year round.

It is said the anthropology museum is the first “village museum” in the world. It encompasses materials from 1800 AD to the later parts of Qajar era. The notion of such a museum is in concord with UNESCO’s concept of preserving antiquities in situ, where they belong, not in far and distant places in big cities.

The museum holds literally anything from the past, from pieces of calligraphy, to the 11th century Indian paintings, alchemy instruments, and ancient coins, all briefly introduced by a recorded voice which is broadcast for visitors.

Hamed

Just before you reach Chalus near Marzan Abad you can turn right on the road and enter the mountain road that takes about 20 minutes to reach the village and the Kandelus Museum and it is well worth visiting.

Kamilia

They offer a variety of local herbal products here and you can find almost anything in the museum here.

Kandelous Anthropology Museum

  • Type

    Anthropology Museum

  • Address

    Kandelous Village, Mazandaran.