The collection includes vital works by artists such as Matthew Barney, Félix González-Torres, Rachel Harrison, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Sigmar Polke, Cindy Sherman, Børre Sæthre and Wolfgang Tillmans. The museum constructing was designed by architects William Templeton Johnson and Robert W. Snyder in a plateresque fashion to harmonize with existing structures from the Panama–California Exposition of 1915. The dominant characteristic of the façade is a heavily ornamented door impressed by a doorway on the University of Salamanca. The Cathedral of Valladolid additionally influenced the museum’s exterior design, and the architects derived inside motifs from the Santa Cruz Hospital of Toledo, Spain.
In March 2018, an exhibition of dozens of artworks and relics belonging to France’s Louvre Museum was opened to guests in Tehran, as a result of an agreement between Iranian and French presidents in 2016. In the Louvre, two departments were allocated to the antiquities of the Iranian civilization, and the managers of the 2 departments visited Tehran. Relics belonging to Ancient Egypt, Rome and Mesopotamia in addition Art Galery to French royal gadgets had been showcased at the Tehran exhibition. The lengthy Galerie Campana shows an outstanding assortment of more than one thousand Greek potteries. In the galleries paralleling the Seine, a lot of the museum’s Roman sculpture is displayed.