TEHRAN – An exhibition of dolls featuring images of promoters and experts of Persian children’s literature will open at the Museum of National Dolls in Tehran today.
The director of the Children’s Book Council of Iran, Nushafarin Ansari, veteran researcher and co-founder of the council Turan Mirhadi, founder of the first Iranian school for the deaf Jabbar Baghcheban and his musician son Samin are among the scholars whose dolls will be put on display, Ali Golshan, a member of the museum’s board of directors, said on Wednesday.
Golshan added that children’s authors Mehdi Azar Yazdi and Hushang Moradi Kermani, writer and screenwriter Nader Ebrahimi, graphic designer Morteza Momayyez, and animator Nureddin Zarrinkelk are also among the scholars whose dolls will go on display.
“This is the first phase of the project, which has been launched to introduce children’s literature, and we aim to introduce the contemporary writers and illustrators through the veterans and founders of Persian modern literature,” he stated.
The dolls, whose size is approximately 25 to 30 centimeters, were made by Mojdeh Daneshpajuh.
The exhibit will be running for one week at the museum located at No.4, 5th Negarestan, near Pasdaran Ave.
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