Carpet Museum of Iran
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The Carpet Museum of Iran is a museum located beside Laleh Park in Tehran, Iran. It 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) and its library contains approximately 7,000 books. The museum was designed by the architect Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian.
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