Museum of History of Lahijan Tea

Lahijan Tea Museum is considered one of the recreational and sightseeing attractions of Lahijan city located in Gilan province. The Lahijan Tea Museum hosts and welcomes a large number of local and non-local tourists from all over Iran daily who travel to this part of Lahijan city to visit this museum. The exterior facade of the museum building is completely covered with gray hewn stone, and the floor of the main hall and the tomb area is paved with marble. In general, it can be said that the Lahijan Tea Museum hosts about 532 registered historical and valuable items in the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization and houses a precious collection of tools and essential equipment for tea preparation.

About eighty years ago, the people of Iran became familiar with the tea drink through a person named Haj Mohammad Mirza Kashif al-Saltaneh, a tea grower. Mohammad Mirza Ghavanlu Qajar, who was later titled Kashif al-Saltaneh by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah, was a student of the Dar al-Fonun school in Tehran and after completing his studies, he held the title of Senior Consul of Iran. This led him to travel to India and, posing as a French merchant, to research tea and the methods of its cultivation and propagation.