Rugs And Carpet Museums

THE CARPET MUSEUM OF IRAN

Situated on the northwest of Laleh Park in Tehran, the museum is an architectural beauty with facades resembling a carpet-weaving loom. Composed of two exhibition galleries with the ground floor gallery constantly assigned for permanent exhibitions & upper floor gallery for the temporary exhibitions of carpets makes the museum quite unique.

URL : http://www.carpetmuseum.ir/index.htm

RASSAM ARABZADEH CARPET MUSEUM

Activated in 1995, this museum apart from exhibiting great piece of art also educates by holding educational workshops. It is organized by the Tehran City & Cultural Heritage organization where students have to have their own designs & tools.

URL : http://www.caroun.com/Museums/IranMuseum/

ISTANBUL TURKISH AND ISLAMIC ARTS MUSEUM

Turkey's most celebrated museum makes the art lovers aware with the richest collection of carpet art in the world, thus, showcasing world's biggest carpet collection & maintaining its reputation as the famous "Carpet Museum".

URL : http://www.turkeytourismguide.net

ISPARTA MUSEUM

The main hall of the museum showcases the carpet specimens belonging to 17th - 20th centuries from various Turkey carpet centers. With the entrance hall beautified with garden & museum with stone works belonging to the Roman, Byzantine & Ottoman periods are the main eye catchers.

URL : http://www.turkeytourismguide.net

THE FOGG ART MUSEUM

Opened in 1895 is supposedly the oldest art museum in Harvard & constantly updates the art lovers with the ancient beauty in the field of arts from world over which even includes the intricately designed carpets & rugs with breathtaking beauty.

URL : http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/fogg/

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

MFA became a public property in the summer of 1876 opened in the nation's centennial. The museum is one of the most comprehensive art museums with admirable collection encompassing some nearly 450,000 works of art highlighting the rich art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary world alongwith innovative educational programs.

URL : http://www.mfa.org/about/index.asp

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM

A marvelous architectural infrastructure, the purpose of this museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections while spending time on exploring the cultures that created them. Arts of various forms including carpets are the front catchers.

URL : http://www.vam.ac.uk/about_va/

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

This museum holds in trust for the nation & constantly lures art connoisseurs with its gala collection such as sacred & most extinct artifacts the world considers sacred. These are finest in existence with artifacts spanning two million years of human history.

URL : http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum.aspx

MUSEUM FUR ISLAMISCHE KUNST

Located in the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island makes the museum quiet celebrated especially with its finest collection exhibiting numerous works of art from Islamic regions of the world from the 8th-19th centuries such as ceramics, drawings, Persian and Indian miniatures, carpets and carvings.

URL : http://www.mytravelguide.com/attractions/

RUSSIA

This museum situated at St. Petersburg occupies six magnificent buildings. It is one of the largest museums in the world exhibiting around some 3 million works of art & is one of the oldest art galleries & museums of human history & culture in the world. The Hermitage collection boasts of artifacts as old as two centuries & symbolically presents the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century.

URL : http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html