Carpet Museum of Iran - Museum

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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, dating from the 16th century to the present.

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
موزه فرش ایران

Location within Tehran
Established	11 February 1978
Location	Laleh Park Tehran, Iran
Coordinates	35.7112°N 51.3904°E / 35.7112; 51.3904
Type	Art museum
Website	carpetmuseum.ir

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. The perforated structure around the museum's exterior is designed both to resemble a carpet loom, and to cast shade on the exterior walls, reducing the impact of the hot summer sun on the interior temperature.

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"Carpet museum of iran". 21 September 2019.

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v t e Rugs and carpets
Rugs	Arabian Afghan Alcaraz Azerbaijani Absheron Aghajly 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	Arabian Armenian Axminster Bellini Berber Bergama Bessarabian Bradford Caucasian Chiprovtsi Crivelli Ersari Fitted Gabbeh Hereke Karabakh Konya Holbein Lilihan Lotto Memling Milas Persian Pirot Quba Sarouk Swedish Turkish Ushak Yomut
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Cleaning	Carpet cleaning Dry carpet cleaning Floorcloth Hot water extraction Truckmount carpet cleaner Vacuum cleaner
Fabrics	Frieze Shag
Manufacture and installation	Ghiordes and Senneh knots Knot density Pile Rubia Rug hooking Rug making Tack strip Underlay Warp and weft
Dyes	Natural dye Synthetic dye Madder (Rubia tinctorum) Indigofera tinctoria Carmine Cochineal Armenian cochineal Polish cochineal Dyes in Uzbekistan
Manufacturers	Axminster Carpets Brintons Cormar Carpets Dilmaghani DOBAG Carpet Initiative A & M Karagheusian Savonnerie manufactory Ziegler & Co.
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Notable individual carpets	Ardabil Carpet Armenian Orphan Rug Badding Rug Bahar-e Kasra Coronation Carpet

Tehran Province

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

Azadi Tower
Bahman Cultural Center
Tabiat Bridge
Carpet Museum of Iran
Dizin
Ebn-e Babooyeh
Golestan Palace
Grand Bazaar, Tehran
Iranian Crown Jewels
Malik National Museum of Iran
Milad Tower
National Museum of Iran
Niavaran Complex
Pearl Palace
Sa'dabad Palace
Shebeli Tower
Shemshak (ski resort)
Bibi Shahr Banu Shrine
Tangeh Savashi
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Toopkhaneh
Tughrul Tower
Reza Abbasi Museum
St. Thaddeus and Bartholomew Church
St. George Church

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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Central America	Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing
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Asia	Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Bhutan Textile Museum Bsous Silk Museum Calico Museum of Textiles Carpet Museum of Iran Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum Kurdish Textile Museum Lok Virsa Museum Islamabad, Pakistan National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum National Textile Museum Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles Sanskriti Textile Museum Textile Museum (Jakarta) Yokohama Silk Museum
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