Natural History Museum Of Isfahan
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. This building became a museum in 1988.
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, ...
- 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
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Museum of Natural history
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Museum of Natural history
See also
- Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism
- Iran National Heritage List
- List of historical structures in Isfahan Province
References
- ^ '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.
- ^ Natural History MuseumIran: Isfahan
- ^ Natural History Museum of IsfahanA Story of Nature