Curator of the National Museum of Iran (NMI), Mohammadreza Kargar described the holding of concerts in Tehran’s palace museums to be a source of damage to the historical monuments.

A metropolis the size of Tehran needs to have several specialized venues for the holding of concerts and currently the only permanent place which the city possesses is the Vahdat Hall, he told the Persian service of ISNA.

According to Kargar, palace museums are not obliged to hold concerts on their premises.

The Iranian band “Shams” accompanied by several dervishes from Konya gave performances at the Sadabad Palace last month.

“The presence of a great number of people in one place will inevitably cause damage to a property, and probably only the open-air areas of these sites should be used for summer performances in order to keep such damage to a minimum,” he added.

Read full article (Tehran Times, September 18, 2007)

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