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Assar Art Gallery ( 8832 6689; www.assarartgallery.com ; 16 Barforoushan Alley, off Iranshahr Ave; Sat-
Thu 11am-8pm) Assar has a reputation for supporting young contemporary artists and has a busy program of exhibi-
tions at its expanding central Tehran space.
Park-e Mellatتلم کراپ
(Mellat Park; Click here ; Valiasr Ave) Many Tehranis say Park-e Mellat is their favour-
ite in-town getaway, and if you're here around dusk on any spring or summer afternoon
you'll find plenty of people enjoying the shaded areas around a small lake. On weekend
nights you'll find just as many young people cruising up and down Valiasr Ave, several to
a car, eyeing each other off and swapping phone numbers through car windows.
PARK
Reza Abbasi Museumیسابع اضر هزوم
( 8851 3002; www.rezaabbasimuseum.ir ; 892 Shariati Ave; admission US$0.50;
9am-4.30pm Tue-Sat) Named after one of the great artists of the Safavid period, the Reza
Abbasi Museum showcases Iranian art from ancient times and the Safavid-era paintings
of Abbasi himself. If you like Iranian art, it's one of the best and most professionally run
museums in the country. The exhibits are organised chronologically starting with the top-
floor Pre-Islamic Gallery, where you'll find Achaemenid gold bowls, drinking vessels,
armlets and decorative pieces, often with exquisite carvings of bulls and rams. Here, too,
you'll find fine examples of Lorestan bronzes ( Click here ) . The middle-floor Islamic
Gallery exhibits ceramics, fabrics and brassware, while the ground-floor Painting Gallery
shows samples of fine calligraphy from ancient Qurans and illustrated manuscripts, partic-
ularly copies of Ferdosi's Shahnamah and Sa'di's Golestan .
To reach the museum take Metro Line 1 to Shahid Hemmat and then a shuttle taxi
down the Resalat Expressway to the junction with Shariati Ave.
MUSEUM
GREATER TEHRAN
For sights in Tehran's far north, head first to Tajrish by Metro, from where it's a walk to
the Film Museum of Iran, and shuttle taxis leave almost continuously for the Sa'd Abad
and Niyavaran Palaces, the popular walking trails at Darband and Darakeh, the cable car
to Tochal at Velenjak, and Park-e Jamshidiyeh.
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