Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization completed moving prominent museum artifacts to secure storage on Saturday as military strikes between Iran and Israel intensified.
The organization said the transferred artifacts are classified as "prominent artifacts with high protection" by the museums' crisis management working group.
Historical museum artifacts are moved to secure storage during wars and natural disasters to protect them from destruction, theft and damage, the organization said.
Deputy Cultural Heritage Minister Ali Darabi announced on Friday that "all museums, buildings and cultural heritage sites" were temporarily closed.
The precautionary measures follow Israeli strikes that have killed at least 30 military personnel in East Azerbaijan province and continued attacks across multiple Iranian provinces.