Iran Press/ Iran Tourism: The museum was designed by architect Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian in 1976. 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.
The Carpet museum's exterior
Given the antiquity of carpet weaving in Iran which dates back to the Achaemenid dynasty the necessity of establishing a museum has been highly apparent.
The Carpet Museum of Tehran represents a collection of the most noble and invaluable hand-woven carpets.
The architecture of the museum is highly spectacular and glorious. The decorations on the external facade of the museum are exactly similar to a carpet loom.
The exhibition ground of the museum includes two halls the first one has been designed for permanent exhibitions and the second floor’s hall has been dedicated to the temporary exhibitions of carpet and Kilim.
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The most valuable samples of Persian carpets and Kilims related to a period between the 9th century and the contemporary time are kept here and categorized based on their quality, and antiquity, and given to the other features of Persian carpets in terms of dying, design, pattern, weaving and the verity of carpet weaving centers.
There are about 135 masterpieces of Persian carpets woven in the main centers such as Kashan, Kerman, Isfahan, Tabriz, Khorasan, Kurdistan, and other regions exhibited in the hall of the first floor.
Carpet Museum of TehranA library including different books in Farsi, Arabic, French, English, and German languages, and a book store are the other parts of the museum.
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