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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (249) If you want to see all the National Museum has to offer, you really should aim to visit it twice. Like all the world's great museums, there is so much to see and absorb, one visit just does not give you time to do it justice. The millenia of Persian history and culture are all represented here in a stunning array of artifacts and major treasures. Pre-historic items give way to the ceramics bronzes, gold and terracotta figures of the Achemanian and Sassanian periods. Huge reliefs and columns topped with double-headed beasts from Persepolis are on display along with coins, jewellery and other small, domestic items.
The museum is open every day except Tuesday from 0900-1200 and 1300-1600 Leave a Comment Address: Tir Street, Iman Khomeini AvePhone: 672061-6
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The Green Palace in the S'ad-Abad park was built for Reza Shah in 1925, and was used as a summer palace. Despite the very evident grandeur of the place, it still was clearly a home. It's quite touching to see the bathroom for example, with a shaving stand and small mirror. The family dining room is an intimate room, as is the study. The dazzling, glittering bedroom is literally the jewel of the place - it's like standing in the middle of a diamond.
Open every day 0800-1800
Open every day until 1800 hours. Leave a Comment Address: S'ad-Abad Palace complex, Zaferanieh
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...is for sale somewhere in the labrynthine maze that is the Tehran Bazaar.
With over 10km of narrow alleyways lined with shops and stalls selling everything from a button to the richest gold; khans and open spaces; stairs that lead down to bustling basement restaurants; people pushing past people; bicycles and donkeys; porters bent double with the load on their back; the sights and the sounds and the smells that come at you; whole rows of fabric stalls - some stocked only with rolls and rolls of black, others exploding with gaudy colour - it's a dazzling, bewildering maze and you could stay there for hours. Leave a Comment Address: The main entrance is off Sabzeh MaidanDirections: In the south of the city
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The S'ad-Abad palace complex in the north of Tehran is a huge area of peaceful gardens with no less than 18 palaces scattered through them. Some of the buildings served a ceremonial function whilst others are surprisingly domestic in their scale. Now they are all museums of one sort or another. It's just as well they never seem all to be open, to visit the whole complex would be a most daunting task! Just go and enjoy the gardens, they are beautiful at any time of the year, and visit one or two of the museums that are open.
The gardens are open all year round from 0800 -1900. Leave a Comment
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Old Cliffie's eyes naturally lit up when he spotted the sign for the postal museum. How could anyone called CliffClaven resist? The first thing he noticed was the size. The postal museum in Tehran is in fact bigger than the national museum just around the corner. And much better presented, with portraits of Iran's post and telecommunications ministers, a selection of mailboxes from around the world, a whole gallery devoted to telephony, and a collection of stamps from various countries. Suddenly, a door opened and a grave Iranian gestured a welcome. It was the museum shop, an Aladdin's cave of rare stamps, old postcards and other postal memorabilia.
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This square, named after an Iranian poet, is in the centre of downtown Tehran. Central Tehran reminded me a bit of Paris, with its small shops and tree-lined avenues.
Just off Ferdoosi Square, in Ferdoosi Street, is the main carpet bazaar. Also, there are some interesting antique shops. Leave a Comment Address: Ferdoosi Square
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They represent the stereotypical image that we Westerners tend to have of Tehran: the huge murals, depicting the scouling face of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
See them, while you still can. They are fading fast and there aren't that many of them left anymore. He died way back in 1989, ten years after his return to Iran. Leave a Comment Directions: Most of them are on the walls of apartment blocks on the main routes out of the city.
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This is also known as the National Museum of Iran and is the biggest and most important in the country. My favourite exhibits included 7,000-year-old clay pots, cunieform tablets, a pottery cow from 1250 BC, a beautiful bronze statue of a Parthian prince and the preserved remains of the Salt Man of Zanjan.
Open 9am -1pm, 2pm-5pm every day, except Tuesday. Leave a Comment Address: Emam Khomeini AvenuePhone: 672 061
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This museum houses a beautiful collection of korans and illustrated books, as well as carpets, textiles, coins etc, from the Islamic period.
My favourite exhibits included a ninth century koran, sixteenth century illustrated books and a wooden mosque pulpit from Fars, made in 1369.
Open 9am-1pm, 2pm-5pm every day, except Tuesday. Leave a Comment Address: Emam Khomeini AvenueDirections: Next door to the National Archaeological Museum.
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You can hardly blame the Iranians for taunting their ideological enemies. The street behind the fortress-like British Embassy is named after Bobby Sands, the first of the IRA hunger strikers who died in Northern Ireland more than a quarter of a century ago. Young Irish people may be forgetting who he was; young Iranians are reminded every day.
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51 Khodami Street Vanak Square, Tehran, Iran - Engelab
50 Taleghani Ave, Tehran, Iran - Enghelab Hotel Tehran
50 Taleghani Ave, Tehran, Iran - Laleh
Dr H Fatemi Ave PO Box 14155-1771, Tehran, Iran - Esteglal East Wing
Shahid Chamran Expressway, Tehran, Iran - Azadi Grand
Shahid Chamran Expressway Evin, Tehran, Iran
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