Natural History Museum of Isfahan

Museum in Isfahan, Iran
32°39′29″N 51°40′27″E / 32.6580°N 51.6741°E / 32.6580; 51.6741OwnerCultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization

The Natural History Museum of Isfahan, Iran, is located in a building that dates from the 15th century Timurid era. The building includes large halls and a veranda which are decorated by muqarnas and stucco.[1] This building became a museum in 1988. [2]

Halls

The museum has seven halls:

  • Guidance hall
  • Invertebrates hall, containing: Unicellular organisms, sponges, corals, echinoderms, mollusca, arthropods, insects, and seashells.
  • Botany hall has different kinds of flowering plants, whole plants, medicinal plants, and tree trunks.
  • Geology hall contains all constituents of the Earth's solid crust, including minerals, crystals, ore, and sedimentary rocks.
  • Hall of physical geography and map of geology, plants, animals, ... [3]
  • Vertebrates hall contains different kinds of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, which are kept as taxidermy specimens.
  • Hall of Graphic training aids

Architecture

This building has several large halls and a porch decorated with Muqarnas and stucco. There are plastic dinosaurs in front of the building which some may regard as incongruous with the building's architecture.

Gallery

  • Museum of Natural history
    Museum of Natural history
  • Museum of Natural history
    Museum of Natural history

See also

References

  1. ^ 'Hosseyn Yaghoubi (2004). Arash Beheshti (ed.). Rāhnamā ye Safar be Ostān e Esfāhān(Travel Guide for the Province Isfahan) (in Persian). Rouzane. p. 137. ISBN 964-334-218-2.
  2. ^ Natural History MuseumIran: Isfahan
  3. ^ Natural History Museum of IsfahanA Story of Nature