Carpet Museum of Iran

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Displays in the Museum, 2011

Located beside Laleh Park in Tehran the Carpet Museum of Iran was established by the order of Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi in 1976 to exhibit a variety of Persian carpets from all over Iran.

The museum's exhibition hall occupies Template:ConvertTemplate:Citation needed and its library contains approximately 7,000 books.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The museum was designed by architect Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian.

Gallery

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See also

• Iran National Heritage Organization
• List of museums in Iran

External links

• Website of the Carpet Museum of Iran Template:Webarchive
• About the Carpet Museum of Iran
• Carpet Museum in Contemporary Architecture of Iran's Official website

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