Carpet Museum of Iran

Carpet Museum of Iran
موزه فرش ایران
	Location within Tehran
Established	11 February 1978
Location	Laleh Park; Tehran, Iran
Coordinates	35°42′40″N 51°23′25″E / 35.7112°N 51.3904°E
Type	Art museum
Website	carpetmuseum.ir

Located beside Laleh Park in Tehran the Carpet Museum of Iran was established by the order of Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi in 1976 to exhibit a variety of Persian carpets from all over Iran.

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.

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