Layla S. Diba ، Farah Diba’s artistic consultant

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From 1975 to 1979, Layla Diba was the founding director of Negārestān Museum , a public collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century persian painting, based in capital. She was the first woman museum director in capital. The museum was shut down during the 1979  Revolution. The Negarestan Museum was established by Queen Farah Pahlavi to promote the Persian art of the 18th and 19th-century.

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