Gallery Museum
The hall of Iranian painting, on the northwest side of Golestan Palace, is known as the Gallery and its upper floor is called Museum Room, Reception Hall or Coronation Hall. in fact, this building was built as the result of the first visit of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar to Europe in 1290 AH, visiting the museums of European countries and also his determination to make a more comprehensive museum.
The design and architecture of the museum room (Reception or Coronation Hall), the Hall of Mirrors, the Entrance Hall and their related Pond Houses, i.e. the current gallery and the Royal Museum were done by Haji Abolhasan Memarnawai, known as Mimarbashi or Sani al-Mulk, and its construction was supervised by Mirza Yahya Khan Motamed al-Mulk who was the minister of construction. The architectural work of this building was completed in 1876 AD. In 1967 AD, due to the coronation ceremony of Mohammad Reza Shah and the preparation of the Golestan Palace for the official ceremony, the roof of the gallery was repaired and strengthened, and after that, in 1995, the architectural work started by connecting the southern and northern parts of this building to each other, and after carrying out some renovations that lasted for two years, this section was opened to the public under the name of "Golestan Palace Library".
The gallery museum currently includes two southern and northern parts:
The southern part, which is actually a part of Salam or Reception Hall's pond house, and in the past had uses such as storage of museum room, collective property office …, is now dedicated to the display of paintings mainly from the Qajar period and the early decades of this period. Among these works, we can mention the works of Master Mirza Baba, Ahmad, Afshar, Ali Akbar Khan Mozayan al-Dowleh, Abul Hasan Khan Ghafari (Sani al-Mulk) or the uncle of Master Kamal al-Mulk.
The northern part was also built during the Pahlavi II period and assigned to the headquarter of the royal guard house (constable house). This section, which houses the works of the late Qajar period painters, includes valuable works by master Mahmoud Khan Saba (Malik al-Shoara), master Mohammad Ghafari Kashani (Kamal al-Mulk) and master Mahdi (Masour al-Molk).