The Time Museum (

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: تماشاگه زمان) or the Hossein Khodadad House (

: خانه حسین خداداد) is a museum in

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. The museum specializes in clocks and other time-measuring devices.

History

The five hectares large garden that surrounds the building possibly existed and had structures in it as far back as the reign of

Mohammad Shah Qajar Mohammad Shah (; born Mohammad Mirza; 5 January 1808 – 5 September 1848) was the third Qajar ''shah'' of Iran from 1834 to 1848, inheriting the throne from his grandfather, Fath-Ali Shah. From a young age, Mohammad Mirza was under the tutela ...

Naser al-Din Shah Qajar Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (; ; 17 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. During his rule there was internal pressure from the people of Iran, as well as external ...

. It was purchased by Hossein Khodadad, an Iranian industrialist, in 1963–64, and underwent major restructuring and repair. Khodadad lived in the house merely for a year, as the building was later confiscated by the government after the

Iranian revolution The Iranian Revolution (, ), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (, ) was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Impe ...

, and is being used as a time museum since 1999–2000, containing around a thousand old clocks. It was listed among the national heritage sites of Iran with the number 10868 on 22 January 2004.

Collection

The Time Museum contains a large number of clocks and watches. Other types of measuring devices in its collection include

water clock A water clock, or clepsydra (; ; ), is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount of liquid can then be measured. Water clocks are some of ...

hourglass An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck that allows a regulated flow of a substance (historically sand) from the ...

es,

sundial A sundial is a horology, horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the position of the Sun, apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the ...

s, and a variety of clocks that measured time by the progressive burning of an object such as a candle or rope. The museum also holds individual clocks and watches that were owned by notable historical figures.

Images

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References

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