Carpet Museum of Iran

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.

The museum's exhibition hall occupies 3,400 square meters (10,200 ft²) and its library contains 7,000 books.

The museum was designed by the last Queen of Iran, Farah Diba Pahlavi. 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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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
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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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