The Iranian Art Museum Garden is an art museum located in the

Elahieh Elahieh (also spelt Elahiyeh; fa, الهیه) is an affluent and upper-class district in northern Tehran. The area is a residential and commercial locale and is filled with the homes and businesses of many politicians, diplomats, expatriates, ...

district of

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. The gardens have an area of less than one

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. The main attraction of the museum gardens are about a dozen scaled-down replicas of well-known historical Iranian buildings dating to the early

Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty ( fa, دودمان پهلوی) was the last Iranian royal dynasty, ruling for almost 54 years between 1925 and 1979. The dynasty was founded by Reza Shah Pahlavi, a non-aristocratic Mazanderani soldier in modern times, who ...

History

The main building was built in 1931 and belonged to Ahmad Amir Ahmadi, the

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, and then to his wife, Turan Mohajer Eslami. Its repair was started in 2005 with green space and landscaping, and it was opened as a museum that year.

Models of Iranian historical buildings

Model of Dome of Soltaniyeh in Iranian art museum garden

During the Pahlavi dynasty's reign in the 1960s, for the festival named " the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire", models of some of the most famous historical Iranian buildings were ordered from Italian artisans. The models were constructed of concrete, with resin and polyester used to decorate their windows. Oil paints were used for painting the models of the

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, Chehel Sotoon and

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buildings. These models of Iranian historical monuments further include

, Chehel Sotoon, Gonbad-e Ghabus,

, thirty three Bridges of

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, Mahyar

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Azadi tower The Azadi Tower ( fa, برج آزادی, ; "Freedom Tower"), formerly known as the Shahyad Tower (, ; "Shah's Memorial Tower"), is a monument on Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran. It is one of the landmarks of Tehran, marking the west entrance to the ...

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, Tomb of Danial, Soltanieh Dome, and

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Arts Exhibition

The museum garden has included a painting exhibit, movies department, arts workshop, cultural products store, and an exhibit of Iranian sculptors' works. Some of these models in the garden were repaired by experts from the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization in 2006.

References

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