Iran Daily - Kamal-ol-Molk House to Become Museum

Iran Daily - Arts & Culture - 08/20/05: "Kamal-ol-Molk House to Become Museum

TEHRAN, Aug. 19--The residence of the great Iranian artist Mohammad Ghaffari, also known as Kamal-ol -Molk, in Neishabour, Khorasan Razavi province will be restored and turned into a painting museum.
Announcing this, deputy head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department in Khorasan Razavi province, Siavash Saberi told ISNA that his office decided to repair Kamal-ol-Molk’s house at a cost of 41 million rials.
“The house will be restored as a mark of respect for the great painter and establish a painting museum,“ he said.
Saberi said that Kamal-ol-Molk has a high status in serving to upgrade Iranian art and culture and his house in Neishabour had become a tourist site. “Therefore Iran’s Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization decided to set up painting museum at the location.
A number of invaluable paintings by Kamal-ol-Molk are being kept in substandard conditions in the Majlis Library.
Experts have expressed concern about the packing of Kamal-ol -Molk’s paintings in a small store in the Majlis Library, because the Museum of Constitutional Movement in the new library building is not yet ready."