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Introduction of Tehran Abgineh (Glassware and ceramic) museum

Introduction of Tehran Abgineh (Glassware and ceramic) museum

Tehran Abgineh Museum (Glassware and ceramic) is a specialized museum of glass and pottery. This museum is located in a Qajar building called Ghavam Al-Saltanah complex with an area of 7000 square meters on Si Tir Street (formerly Ghavam Al-Saltanah).

This museum has been registered in the list of national works of the country on May 27, 1998, number 2014. Until 1952, this complex was the house and workplace of Ghavam al-Saltanah, the prime minister of Qajar and Pahlavi, and after that, it was given to the Egyptian embassy for seven years since 1955. In the following years, it was the Embassy of Afghanistan and the Commercial Bank of Iran, respectively. In 1977, it was purchased from the Commercial Bank and handed over to the former Ministry of Culture and Arts in order to establish a specialized museum of pottery and glass. The project of changing the use of Ghavam building and turning it into a museum of glass and pottery in Tehran is entrusted to the famous Austrian architect and engineer named Hans Hollein. During the implementation of this project, according to the architectural features of pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Iran and the formal and historical characteristics of the works, Hollein designed and built the showcases of objects and the design of museum halls.

Interior architecture of the Glassware Museum

The museum building consists of two floors and a basement. It is built in 1040 square meters in the style of Iranian-European architecture. The interior architecture of the glass museum has different sections such as the display of objects, the cultural products booth, the library, and the administrative section. The objects display section consists of 6 halls, which are located on the ground floor of historical objects from prehistoric to pre-Islamic times, in audiovisual, enamel and crystal halls. On the first floor of the museum, there are Sadaf (oyster), Zarrinfam and Azure halls, in which objects from the Islamic period to the contemporary period are exhibited. The pool house and the training building are also other parts of the complex. It has unique tiles from the late Qajar period and a roof with prominent beds. It is located on the ground floor of the mansion and has a museum gallery. The educational building is on the north side of the museum courtyard.

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On the ground floor, there is the educational classrooms and on the upper floor, the library of the Museum of Iranian Glassware and ceramic, which contains 4,000 volumes of specialized books in the fields of art, history, architecture and handicrafts. The facade decorations of the Tehran Museum of Glassware and ceramic include 51 brick reliefs reminiscent of Seljuk dynasty, and the presence of porches and side columns at the entrance of the building is one of the architectural features of the late Qajar and early Pahlavi eras. Inside the building there are many decorations including mirrors, bedding and inlaid wooden doors and windows. Also, the ground floor and the first floor are connected by horseshoe-shaped wooden stairs, which are inspired by Russian buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Different sections of Abgineh Museum

The architecture of the museum and the objects kept in it have turned Abgineh museum into one of the most spectacular tourist attractions in Tehran province. At the entrance to the museum there are tools, instruments, materials and paints used to make glass, as well as some samples of glass objects. In the audiovisual hall there is a view of a prehistoric tomb in which a skeleton of prehistoric man, its tools and ornaments are symbolically placed. The oldest glass and pottery works of the museum are exhibited in Mina Hall and the architecture of the Achaemenid period in Persepolis has been used to design the showcases. The oldest glass works of this hall belong to the early second millennium BC, which includes glass bars gather from Choghaznabil. The Crystal Hall, named after the display of glass objects, has showcases that are taken from the architecture of the Achaemenid period (Persepolis columns) and Naghshe Rostam in Shiraz. The oyster(Sadaf) hall also includes pottery and glass objects of the Islamic era, and the reason for naming it with this name is its oyster decoration. Zarrinehfam Hall is also a place for displaying dishes called Zarrinehfam. These dishes are known by this name due to their decoration technique and are considered as aristocratic dishes. Azure Hall, is divided into two sections, Azure 1 and 2. It has showcases inspired by the form of Mongolian tents and tombs of that time. The objects on display in these two sections include pottery and glassware from the Timurid and Ilkhanid periods to the Safavid and Qajar periods. To visit this attraction of Tehran province, you can join Persian trips tourist group and leave an unforgettable trip for yourself.

 

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