Fascinating museums of Shemiranat district
Tehran is home to famous, fascinating and prestigious museums which host many tourists from around the world. Most of the museums of the Iranian capital are located in downtown areas.
However, museums in the Shemiranat neighborhood in the north of the metropolis also lure visitors.
Military museum of Sa’dabad Complex
This museum features a valuable collection of military weapons in nine halls. In the first hall, there are clothes, flags, tools and military equipment related to the parade of military forces of different historical eras, IRNA wrote.
In the second hall, cold weapons including swords, spears, bows, maces and shields are displayed.
Military medals and insignia of the Pahlavi era are showcased in the third hall, while equipment related to the veterans of the Iraqi-imposed war in the 1980s is exhibited in the fourth and fifth halls.
Visitors can see firearms including rifles, various kinds of pistols and machine guns of historical periods in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth halls.
Water Museum of Sa’dabad Complex
Water Museum of Sa’dabad Complex has four exhibition galleries in the main building and one exhibition gallery in the adjacent building. It features ancient and traditional techniques and instruments for supplying and distributing water. One of the sections of the museum was the special office of ousted Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (former Iranian monarch), which was used to receive officials. It was completely renovated over 20 years ago.
Darabad Museum
Nature and Wildlife Museum of Darabad is one of the biggest museums in Iran, located in the Darabad area.
It was the residence of Shams Pahlavi, the sister of the former shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in 1979 in the wake of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. The museum has remained open to the public since then.
Visitors who enter the museum are amazed by the sculpture of an herbivorous dinosaur dating back to the Jurassic era.
The museum has a two-story building and consists of different sections allocated to different species such as marine mammals, birds and butterflies. It also contains taxidermy and geology sections.
The Nature and Wildlife Museum of Darabad is the first Iranian museum which joined the World Wide Web.
Niavaran Palace Complex
The Niavaran Palace Complex, with its breathtaking architecture and decoration, is located in the northern side of Niavaran Park. This complex consists of several parts including palaces, museums and gardens.
Sahebgharanieh Palace, Niavaran Palace, and Koshk-e Ahmad Shahi are three main palaces in the complex. The Jahan Nama Museum is located in the western part of Sahebgharanieh Palace. Visitors can see valuable objects from all over the world there.
There is also a car museum in the complex. Visitors can see beautiful classic cars that once belonged to the Pahlavi family.
Passing through the green space of the complex, you won’t miss Garden Museum of Inscriptions, which offers a chance to see replicas of brilliant engravings selected from across Iran.
The museum exhibits dozens of inscription models from the historical periods of the Medes in Urartian, Assyrian, and Aramaic languages belonging to the Ahar and Sarab regions. Some of these inscriptions also pertain to the Parthian and Sassanid eras in ancient Persian, Akkadian, Elamite, Aramaic and Pahlavi languages.
The history of Niavaran Palace Complex dates back nearly 300 years, when Fath-Ali Shah (the second shah of the Qajar Dynasty) ordered a summer residence to be built over the then countryside area of the capital.