Carpet Museum of Iran

Art museum in Tehran, Iran

35°42′40″N 51°23′25″E / 35.7112°N 51.3904°E / 35.7112; 51.3904TypeArt museumWebsitecarpetmuseum.ir

Located in Tehran, beside Laleh Park, and founded in 1976, the Carpet Museum of Iran exhibits a variety of Persian carpets from all over Iran.

The museum's exhibition hall occupies 3,400 square metres (37,000 sq ft)^{[citation needed]} and its library contains approximately 7,000 books.^[1] The museum was designed by architect Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian.

References

^ "Carpet museum of iran". 21 September 2019.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carpet Museum of Iran.

Website of the Carpet Museum of Iran Archived 2007-06-09 at the Wayback Machine
About the Carpet Museum of Iran
Carpet Museum in Contemporary Architecture of Iran's Official website

Rugs and carpets

Rugs

Arabian
Afghan
Alcaraz
Azerbaijani
- Absheron
- Aghajly
- Arraiolos
- Arran
- Borchaly
- Caucasian
- Chul
- Demirchilar
- Ganja
- Gasimushaghi
- Jek
- Karabakh
- Kilim
- Quba
- Shabalyt-Buta
- Shedde
Bessarabian
Braided
Catalogne
Chobi
Dhurrie
Flokati
Kashmiri
Lilihan
Mughal
Navajo
Oriental
Pakistani
Petate
Persian
- Abadeh
- Ahar
- Arak
- Ardabil
- Bakhtiari
- Bakshaish
- Bidjar
- Borujerd
- Gabbeh
- Heriz
- Isfahan
- Jozan
- Karadagh
- Kashan
- Kashmar
- Kerman
- Kilim
- Kurdish
- Mashhad
- Nain
- Qom
- Sarouk
- Seraband
- Shahsevan rug
- Shiraz
- Tabriz
- Varamin
- Zanjan
Rya
Scandinavian
Seychour
Tibetan
Turkmen
Uzbek
- Uzbek Julkhyr
- Uzbek Napramach
Yürük

Carpets

People

Places

Azerbaijan Carpet Museum
Carpet Museum of Iran
Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah
Brukenthal National Museum
Kidderminster
Louvre
Mevlana Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Miho Museum
Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest)
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Museum of Textiles (Lyon)
Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
Saint Louis Art Museum
Textile Museum (George Washington University)
Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Turkmen Carpet Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wilton

Cleaning

Fabrics

Frieze
Jajim
Shag
Soumak

Manufacture
and installation

Dyes

Manufacturers

Carpets in culture

Notable individual
carpets

Tehran Province, Iran

Capital

Tehran

Counties
and cities

Baharestan County	Nasim Shahr Golestan Salehieh
Damavand County	Damavand Abali Absard Kilan Rudehen
Eslamshahr County	Ahmadabad-e Mostowfi Eslamshahr Chahardangeh
Firuzkuh County	Firuzkuh Arjomand
Malard County	Malard Safadasht
Pakdasht County	Pakdasht Sharifabad
Pardis County	Pardis Bumehen
Pishva County	Pishva
Qarchak County	Qarchak
Qods County	Qods
Ray County	Rey^* Baqershahr Hasanabad Kahrizak
Robat Karim County	Robat Karim Parand Nasirabad
Shahriar County	Shahriar Andisheh Baghestan Ferdowsieh Sabashahr Shahedshahr Vahidieh
Shemiranat County	Shemiran^* Fasham Lavasan Tajrish^*
Tehran County	Tehran
Varamin County	Varamin Javadabad

Landmarks

Populated places

List of cities, towns and villages in Tehran Province

^* indicates that this formerly independent city is now absorbed into Tehran.

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