TEHRAN -- A collection of artworks by some Iranian masters has recently been found in the basement of the oldest Iranian school of visual arts, the Sons of Iran School of Art, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported on Saturday.

The collection features about 1000 works by Sadeq Barirani, Mahmud Farshchian, Morteza Momayyez, Aidin Aghdashlu, Parviz Tanavoli, Sohrab Sepehri, and many other artists who were trained at the school.

“All the works have been photographed and numbered,” the dean of the school told ISNA.

There are plans to convert the 80-year-old building into a museum of visual arts, Jalal Motavalli added.

He explained that some of the works were created during the artists’ student days.

Motavalli went on to say that the school’s officials plan to select 300 works from the collection to put on display at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and the Saba Artistic Cultural Complex in the near future.

Slides of the works will be shown at the school on March 9 after a commemoration ceremony honoring the founder and the first dean of the school, Asghar Mohammadi, at his grave.