Hall of Iranology is a miniature model of the map of Iran in the 1340s, which was made by Art Centrum (Czecho-Slovak Fine Arts Center).
Hall of Iranology is a miniature model of the map of Iran in the 1340s, which was made by Art Centrum (Czecho-Slovak Fine Arts Center). The purpose of designing this space was to introduce Iran's history, architecture, culture, industry and geography to tourists. At the beginning of the 1940s, Iran included 14 central provinces, Khorasan, Isfahan, East Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, Mazandaran, Fars, Gilan, West Azerbaijan, Kerman, Kermanshahan, coastal ports and islands of the Oman Sea, Sistan and Baluchistan, Kurdistan, and at the end of this decade, 9 The provinces of Hamadan, Lorestan, Semnan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Ilam, Boyer Ahmad and Kohkiloyeh, Zanjan, Yazd and Bushehr were added, and Iran had 23 provinces.
In this forum, 17 provinces are located on the map.
At the time of its construction, Iranology Hall was called Audio Visual Hall and it consisted of the following 4 sections:
- A miniature replica of the map of Iran on the floor of the hall including spheres that show industries, green provincial centers, yellow roads, railway lines, blue rivers, important glass architectural buildings and seas and lakes, sunrise and sunset. Sun
- The elements on the ceiling of the hall include handicrafts of provinces, musical instruments of Iranian tribes
- 4 big screens where the introduction videos of Iran were played from 4 cameras at the end of the hall, 10 circular color screens where photos of the provinces were played by slider devices, Pars TVs next to the hall that introduced the culture of the province was paying
- The end section of the hall, which includes 4 wall aquariums, a large triangular aquarium, and the passage of time
Hall entrance elements:
- Glass balls:
- Ahvaz pipe making
- Nuclear power plant of Bushehr province
- Abadan Oil Refinery
- Dez Andimeshk dam hydropower plant
- Isfahan steel company
- Steel making of Zanjan
- Gilan Caviar
- Curry rice, fish and caviar of Mazandaran
- Mazandaran textile
- Tabriz machine building
- Tabriz Tractor Manufacturing
- Kurdistan Cement
- Kermanshah Petrochemical
- Historical and architectural elements:
- Persepolis of Shiraz
- Shiraz memory
- Jame Mosque of Isfahan
- Shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh (PBUH) Qom
- Azadi Tower, Tehran
- Lakes
- Salt lake of Qom
- Lake Urmia
The end of the hall (passage of time):
In this part, we will have a short passage to the history and civilization of Iran. This space consists of several circles that show the passage of time from small to large.
- The first circle (the black circle at the end) is the zero point of Iran's civilization, where Iranian civilization videos are broadcasted.
- The second circle: representing the Paleolithic era about 20 thousand years ago, when cave dwellings were formed in the plateau of Iran.
- The third circle: a fire pit is a symbol of Zoroastrian religion.
- The fourth circle: the columns of Persepolis, Persepolis and the cuneiform lines of the Achaemenid period, the largest empire in the history of Iran.
- The fifth circle: the left side of the symbol of the lotus flower, which symbolizes the peace, purity and purity of Iranians.
- The sixth circle: on the left side, you can see a man who is the symbol of the people of Iran with clenched fists, the symbol of the people who are always in the scene, and outside the left circle of the same symbol, an eagle sign as a symbol of the vision and insight of the Iranian people in this The episode shows. On the opposite side, the symbol of the lion represents the fighting spirit of the Iranian people
- The last circle: the tulip symbolizes the martyrs of Iran and the Islamic Revolution
- In the middle of the circular part of the passage of time, there is a glass ball that was a fire pit in the past and was considered a symbol of Zoroastrian religion.
Elements of the exit section of the hall:
- Glass balls:
- Mashhad power plant
- Kerman handicrafts (carpet weaving, pen making, pen work)
- Wheat silos of Sistan and Baluchistan
- Hormozgan shipping
- Khoozestan steel
- (An unidentified complete sphere in Sistan) (Probably Chabahar Space Base)
- (An unidentified semicircular sphere in Yazd) (The sphere of this space has disappeared)
- Historical and architectural elements:
- Shrine of Hazrat Imam Reza (AS) Mashhad
- Tomb of Zoroastrians Yazd
- Yazd Grand Mosque
- Lakes
- Hamoon lake
- Jazmurian Lake