Golestan Palace The magnificent Golestan Palace a world heritage site located in the south of Tehran right next to the bazaar.There was a Safavid-era citadel on this site, it was Nasser al-Din Shah (r 1848–96), impressed by what he’d seen of European palaces, who created the ‘Palace of Flowers’. Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty...Read More
Abgineh Museum Glassware and Ceramic Museum (Abgineh Museum) was originally ordered to be built as the personal residence of a politician in the early 1920s. then it was sold to the Egyptian embassy but eventually in 1976 it was converted into a museum. The glass and ceramic exhibited in this museum belong to a span of...Read More
Carpet Museum The exterior of the structure 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. Carpet Museum of Iran exhibits a variety of Persian carpets from all over Iran dating from the 16th century to the...Read More
