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About the entrepreneur and founder of the museum

Professor Rahim Pernia was born in Ardabil in May 1343. He is of Azeri origin, and this made him create the first outstanding portrait of gold and silver from the image of a famous contemporary poet, Shahriar.

He grew up in a family that all studied medicine. But despite his family’s insistence, he had no desire to study medicine. According to him, he loved to draw and in his spare time, he learned goldsmithing at his father’s house, where he worked on molds for making gold artifacts.

As a teenager, he became so proficient in black ink that one day his brother, who was a medical student, asked him to paint a portrait of a spiritual man. He didn’t know until after the revolution that the portrait he drew belonged to Ayatollah Taleghani, and it was reproduced as a revolutionary image in those years and circulated among students of Tehran universities.

After the revolution, his interest in art led him to enter the university in the field of painting. He, who in addition to painting, had also learned to work on making gold molds with his father, decided to invent a field and profession for the first time in Iran by combining art and craft, based on which paintings, stamps and portraits can be made. He designed and made prominent metal sculptures of people and places.

About Pernia handicrafts

Design, implementation and supply of works in the Museum of Gold and Silver Stamps of Iran

It takes place in Pernia handicrafts

Pernia Handicrafts with a 40-year history in the tradition of refining gold and using modern technology and Iranian art has succeeded in making amazing innovations in the production of stamps and medallions (commemorative coins). The gold and silver stamp is rectangular or square like a postage stamp, and there are dents on the edges of this stamp, like a postage stamp. Another feature of it is the relief that is minted in the style of a coin, but unlike a coin, it has only one side. This ancient art has been passed down from generation to generation among Iranian artists. Luxury stamps made of gold and silver are officially designed and produced to commemorate national and religious occasions and personalities of Iran and different countries. By combining modern technology and contemporary art, this art has gained a special place among Iranian collectors, so that all the works produced are rare or rare. These precious products have t99 standard code and are ISO 9001-2008 certificate holders, and they also have a cultural-artistic nature with license number 912-126-12273 from the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism and the Iranian Standard and Industrial Research Institute.