Simin & Jalal House Museum — Attraction in Tehran

Simin and Jalal House Museum is the house of the famous literary couple Simin Daneshvar and Jalal Al Ahmad. This house was opened as a museum in 1397 with a collection of books, personal belongings and manuscripts of these two great contemporary writers. The Simin and Jalal House Museum is a house built brick by brick with love. Before building this house, Simin and Jalal lived in a rented house for two years. Between 1331 and 1332, Simin went to Stanford University in America to study aesthetics. Jalal had bought land in Shemiranat a long time ago and planned to build a house there. Simin's trip was a good opportunity for Jalal to implement his idea and settle there when his wife returned. He himself designed this house after many edits (more than two hundred maps) and consulted an architect during the design. The private house of Simin and Jalal later became a hangout for Iranian literary figures such as Ahmad Shamlou, Nima Yoshij, and a frequenting place for politicians such as Imam Musa Sadr and Ayatollah Taleghani. The core of the Writers' Union was formed in this house, and during the Pahlavi period, the meetings of the Writers' Union were held in this house. Jalal Al Ahmad (1348) and Simin Daneshvar (1390) lived in this house until the end of their lives. This house was registered in the list of national monuments of Iran in 2013 by the cultural heritage organization with number 11466. Simin and Jalal's house was turned into a museum in 2017. In 2013, this house was bought by the municipality, but there were legal problems regarding the ownership of the house, and this issue delayed its reopening to the public until 2017. Finally, on May 8, 1397, on Simin Daneshvar's birthday, the Simin and Jalal House Museum was opened. All the furniture and equipment of this house, including books, room and kitchen equipment, and all parts are the same equipment used by Jalal and Simin. Interestingly, there is even a handwriting of Jalal and a basic plan of the house in the house of Simin and Jalal Museum. Also, in this museum, all the works of this couple, including authored and translated books, are stored together. The most important works of Simin Daneshvar in this collection include Suvshun, Wandering Island and Sarban Sarbandar, and the most important works of Jalal Al Ahmad include Westernization and the translation of Madea Zemi by Andre Gide. Other valuable works are kept in this collection, most of which were donated to this collection by Victoria Daneshvar, Simin's sister, on the opening day of the museum. These items include Simin and Jalal's wedding rings, their marriage certificate and Simin Daneshvar's national card. I really there and spent an hour to visit all of the different parts, quite and cozy museum, price of the museum about 5 Toman. Hope to visit here again. Don't doubt...

I found the house quite quaint and full of character. The house is not very large so don't go in big groups. The house is as it was when these writers lived there so it feels like a well-lived in house. It's like you've popped by to see a neighbour. I liked the garden as well. The house has a touch of sadness or at least I felt so. Although it was welcoming, you feel as though you're intruding and the house misses its owners. I loved looking at the book cases and seeing what books these writers read. There are wax figures (if I'm not mistaken) of Simin, Jalal and Nima Yushij. I would definitely recommend a visit. It's nice to see such a humble home and to know that the occupants were such...

خانه سیمین دانشور و همسرش جلال آل احمد در بن‌بست ارض، در کوچه رهبری و خیابان دزاشیب قرار دارد؛ خانه‌ای که جلال آن را در زمانی که سیمین دانشور برای تحصیل در آمریکا بود به‌دست خود ساخت. این خانه سال‌ها محل گردآمدن نویسندگان بسیاری بود و تا زمان مرگ جلال، محل زندگی جلال و سیمین بود. بعد از مرگ جلال هم سیمین دانشور به‌تنهایی در آن زندگی می‌کرد. این خانه بزرگ و زیبا با حیاط پر از درختان سرسبز و حوض آبی‌اش، با دیوارهای پر از عکس و نقاشی از جلال و سیمین بعد از مرگ سیمین دانشور، محل زندگی ویکتوریا دانشور (خواهر سیمین دانشور) و همسرش پرویز فرجام بوده‌است.

در تاریخ ۹اردیبهشت۱۳۹۳ این خانه از سوی شهرداری تهران خریداری و مقرر شد این خانه به «خانه ادبیات» تبدیل شود.۱۷] بااین‌حال این قضیه به موضوعی مناقشه‌آمیز میان شهرداری و ورثهٔ سیمین و جلال تبدیل شده‌است. روزنامهٔ اعتماد ۱۰اردیبهشت۱۳۹۳ در واپسین رویهٔ خود گزارشی در این باره چاپ کرده‌است. در این گزارش، از قول معاون شهرداری نوشته شده که، خانهٔ سیمین و جلال خریده شده‌است؛ اما در سوی دیگر، علی خلاقی، همسر خواهرزاده و دخترخواندهٔ سیمین دانشور گفته‌است: «این خانه تا زمانی که حکم دادگاه مشخص نشده، نمی‌تواند به‌فروش رود و معامله از اساس باطل است؛ چون شهرداری تحقیقی نکرده که بداند این خانه مالک دیگری دارد یا نه.» علی خلاقی در گفتگویی که در «اعتماد» چاپ شده، به وصیت‌نامه سیمین دانشور اشاره کرده‌است که برپایهٔ آن، لیلی ریاحی (دخترخواندهٔ سیمین دانشور) وارث ثلث اموال روانشاد دانشور و مسئول انتشار کتاب‌هایش دانسته است.[۱۸

اما خبرهای بعدی، از جمله خبر منتشرشده توسط خبرگزاری مهر در اوایل تیرماه۱۳۹۵ حاکی از آن است که جریان تبدیل خانه جلال آل احمد و سیمین دانشور به «خانه ادبیات ایران» هنوز هم گرفتار بلاتکلیفی بوده و سرانجام آن مبهم است. محمدحسین دانایی، خواهرزاده جلال آل احمد نیز در مصاحبه با خبرگزاری مهر، ضمن انتقاد از کُندی جریان مرمت و آماده‌سازی خانه مزبور، مهم‌ترین دلیل این وضعیت را ندانم‌کاری و نداشتن دانش نظری و تجربی لازم برای این قبیل کارها دانسته و در خصوص احتمال تخریب و تغییر کاربری بخشی از خانه مزبور هشدار داده است.[۲۰]

پس از کش‌وقوس‌های فراوان، ۸اردیبهشت۱۳۹۷ و در زادروز سیمین دانشور، این خانه...