| The Sadabad Palace (Persian:کاخ سعدآباد ) is a palace
built by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran in the Shemiran area of
Tehran. The complex was firstinhabited by Qajar monarchs and
royal family in the 19th century. After an expansion of the
compounds, Reza Shah lived there in the 1920s. And his son,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi moved there in the 1970s.
After the Iranian Revolution, the complex became a museum.
However, the current presidential palace is located adjacent to
the Sa'd Abad compound.
Sad Abad has 18
palaces, which 7 palaces had changed to museums .
Nation
Palace:
Shah
Reza summer villa
Nation
Arts Museum (or Africa Museum):
Situated in Nation
Museum, where Chinese, Indian's and African's Dedications to
Shah, is protected
Green Museum: Shah Reza
Summer Palace
Anthropology Search Museum:
Any kind of Iranian customs, related to culture and civilization
of ancient Iran are showed
Military Museum: Equipment
and Weapons from Achamenian period to now
Mir Emad Museum: Calligraphy
Masterpieces of Mir Emad and his period other calligraphists
Abkar Museum: Klara Abkar
Paintings
Behzad Museum (miniature):
Hossein Behzad Paintings
Fine Art Museum: 18th & 19th
century European Paintings
Water
Museum:
Keeping, restoring and revenue operation of water in Iran
Nation Palace
In two
stories, different small and large rooms were served as
residence and office of Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son. Rooms
were used as sitting room, waiting room, reception hall, dinning
hall and bedroom. There are some works of art like figurines and
chinaware are kept in showcases. Furniture, chandeliers and
paintings are European made. There are four big mural painting
the subjects of which are Iranian myths.
Nations
museum:
This collection consists of various works of art purchased from
other countries and represents the civilizations of pre-Islam
Iranian, African, Indian, far east, Eskimos, Mayas and
contemporary arts of Iranian as well as non-Iranian artists.
First
floorwas
built in 1932 for Mohammad Reza Shah. Rooms are covered with
valuable rugs as follows:
1-Ground floor lobby: Whole silk
Kashan rug, 63 sq. m. and whole silk Kerman rug in three
section.
2-Living room: 121 sq. m. Kerman
rug (Arjmand workshop), medallion corner design.
3-Dining room: 86 sq. m. Kerman
rug, Abbasi flower design.
4-Wating room: 56 sq. m. Kerman
rug, Medallion Arabesque design.
5-Working room: 73 sq. m. Kerman
rug, Medallion corner
Second Floor
Farah bedroom: 75 sq. m Kerman
rug (70 wales), medallion corner; and a small pictorial rug with
Sheik Sana'an and Christian girl portrait.
Dining room: 145 sq. m. Meshed rug
(Amu Oghli workshop), Flower Arabesque design, related to Sheikh
Safi Ardebili design, 16th century.
Ceremony Hall: 143 sq. m. Meshed
rug, medallion two Vase design.
Living room: 51 sq. m. Meshed rug,
medallion corner.
Bedroom: 55 sq. m. Kerman rug, Shah
Abbasi, medallion corner.
Lobby: 73 sq. m. Yazd rug. There is
also, some coral and ivory decorative things. Around, some color
paintings 350 × 810 cm. are found, with epic poem subjects. In
north and south side, Bahram Gour in hunting, in west, Rostam
and China Emperor fight, which are painted by Hossein Taherzadeh
Behzad in 1941.
In this palace, also found, valuable furniture, porcelains and
candelabrums, which are mostly dedicated by foreign countries.
Green Palace
It is
the first palace built in the complex during Pahlavi dynasty by
Reza Shah?s order. The building is called green palace because
of the color of its fa?de. The palace is a very nice museum of
Persian arts like mirror marquetry, carpets, and illumination
and plaster work. It was served as Mohammad Reza?s private
palace where some private meetings were held before the Islamic
Revolution.
Green palace was built during six years (1922 to 1928) in Reza
Shah period, by Jafar Kashani. This palace is covered with three
different stones:
1) Isfahan green stone
2) Khamseh Zanjan in middle
3) Italian stone for columns
And have two stages:
Waiting room: 70 sq. m. Kerman rug
(70 wales), Shah Abbas design, Silver and gold tissue curtains,
with a harmony between carpet, plaster-molding and mirror work.
Reza Shah working room: By a
valuable rug, called Zelleh Soltan, 40 sq. m. Tehran rug (30
wales) ,medallion corner (Botteh) flower design is covered.
Walls are decorated by Behzad paintings.
Ceremonies Hall: 80 sq. m. Meshed
rug (120 wales) flower Arabesque design, and the best kind of
mirror works on wall and ceiling .
Reza shah Dinning room: 40 sq. m.
Yazd rug (40 wales), Arabesque design, with Behzad paintings on
wall.
Corridor: Walls are covered by
French Cashmere. Personal Facilities of Reza Shah are placed to
be shown.
Reza Shah Bedroom: 4 sq. m. Sarough
(Arak) rug (100 wales) medallion corner design covered the
floor. Plaster-molding, mirror works and rug have a uni-design.
Living room: Two carpets cover the
floor:
1)12 sq. m. (70 wales) Sheik Lotfollah Dome design
2)Isfahan small rug, flower Arabesque design.
Ceremony Hall: Here, find many
decorative foreign things; the best is a silver vessel with 110
kilogram weight.
Other palaces are:
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Today, there are 10 museums open to the public as
follow:
1- Nation palace
2- Green Palace
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Fine arts museum:
The major part of the paintings in this collection
are the oil paintings of Safavid, Afshar, Zand and
Qajar periods collected by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?s
last wife, Farah, from an English collectioner
called Harold Emmer. The paintings have been
arranged on 3 floors: 1) First floor, teahouse
painting by contemporary Iranian artists, 2) second
floor, various historical periods paintings
mentioned above, and 3) Third floor, European works
presented to Farah or bought by her.
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Behzad museum:
This museum is devoted to the miniatures painted by
Hossein Behzad (1895-1968) who made a revolution in
Iranian painting. Studying European art and being
inspired by Kamal-ed-din Behzad and Reza Abbasy, he
introduced a new style of miniature on paper, hard
paper or fiberboard. This style is purely Iranian,
but it has kept on with its contemporary paces and
changes of art in universal art schools.
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Abkar museum:
The miniatures in this museum are works of a 20th
century artist called Klara Abkar who had her
particular style in painting. Her source of
inspiration was the rich Iranian literature and
mysticism. Her works take the visitors to a world of
spirituality and a poem-like or light-music-like
harmony that give everyone's eyes peace and
tranquility.
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Mir Emad museum:
The main subject of this museum is the most
prominent post-Islam Iranian art namely calligraphy.
On paper and parchment, there are plenty of various
calligraphic styles of writing belonging to 10th
to 19th centuries. Mir Emad, himself, the
most well known 18th century?s
calligrapher, has been introduced by his works. In
some cases, some calligraphy-related arts like
illumination, painting, etc are exhibited.
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Museum of anthropology:
The lifestyle and customs of Iranians through the
history are displayed from cultural perspective. In
a vast area and of two floors, various objects are
exhibited like tools for irrigation, agriculture,
husbandry, fishing and hunting as well as
agricultural documents, clothes, lighting tools and
handicrafts.
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Water museum:
This museum in an exhibition of ancient and
traditional techniques and instruments for water
supplement and distribution. Various water-related
vernacular structures are introduced like water
reservoirs and traditional icehouses. Some ancient
water dams and royal orders concerning them are
presented as well.
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Military museum:
the objects of the museum are displayed on two
floors. The military uniforms of Achaemenians up to
the present time are exhibited. The weaponry on
display consists of some unsophisticated ones used
in the ancient times until the firearms period?s.
Part of the history of Iraqi-imposed war against
Iran (1980-1988) is also exposed to visitors.
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Rojat Palace
Ebrat Palace (Mother)
Vessels Museum (Ashraf Palace)
Dafineh Museum
Farideh Diba Palace
Narural History Museum
And others which are not museum:
1. Shahram Palace
2. Prince Palace
3. Leila Palace
4. Farahnaz Palace
5. Hamid Reza Palace
6. Gholamreza Palace
7. Nasiri Palace
8. Twin Ghajar Palace
In west of this big Palace, a pottery workshop and in south a
painting workshop are placed.
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