Jebrael Nokandeh

Career

Jebrael Nokandeh received his MA in archaeology from Tehran University and his Ph.D. from the Free University of Berlin. He is the Director of the National Museum of Iran. He is a member of the Research Council of the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR) and a scientific member of the Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT). During the Government Week Celebration in late 2016, he was chosen as the Outstanding Director within the Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization.

Nokandeh is an experienced field archaeologist with extensive experience in Iran, including Khuzestan, the Mehran Plain in the Ilam Province, the Caspian Littoral of Gilan, and the Golestan Province, where he conducted surveys and excavations in the Gorgan Wall Project.

As director of the National Museum in 2015, he established a new prehistoric exhibition on the second floor of the Museum and completed the 9-year-old renovation and restoration of the Islamic Era Museum. His focus has been on the data integration of the various departments, organizing storage areas and producing various catalogs of the museum's important collections. He organized and directed highly successful exhibitions locally and at foreign museums in Italy, India, and Germany. The National Museum hosted an exhibition of works from the Louvre in March 2018.