Darabad, Tehran
Darabad (Persian: دارآباد) is a quarter in north-eastern Tehran, the capital city of Iran.
Darabad is a former village and a summit on the slopes of the Alborz mountain range to the northeast of Tehran, which has become part of the Greater Tehran area as a result of rapid expansion of the Tehran Metropolis. Many people use Darabad as the starting point for hiking the southern slopes of Alborz, especially in the summer.
The Museum of Natural Monuments and Wildlife of Iran is one of the museums of Tehran province and is located at the beginning of Darabad and Ajodania streets in Museum Street. Its location was one of the palaces of Fatemeh Pahlavi, which was built for guests but was never used, and after the revolution, with changes for public use, it became a museum focused on the nature of Iran. This museum was inaugurated in 1993 by the Municipality of Tehran in order to acquaint citizens with cultural and natural heritage and to recognize the importance of protecting the environment and wildlife.
In 2001, the museum sent a group of four people, including two geologists (Dr. Ali Meysami and Engineer Amir Hussein Chizari), a sculptor (Siamak Khodabandeh) and a coordinator (Engineer Farhad Mehran Razi) to the village of Ali Reza Zarand in Kerman. After exploring the Shemshak Formation to the former Jurassic age, the group took the shape of a dinosaur footprint and transferred it to the museum. The entrance to the museum is installed.
The museum became a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 1997, and in the same year it became the first Iranian museum to join the World Wide Web, launching the popular online magazine "Nature and Wildlife of Iran" with the support of Neda Internet Services Company. Started the computer. It is also an active member of the IUCN-CEC Commission on Education and Communication of the Museum, and actively participates in the International Meetings of the World Council of Museums (ICOM) in Spain and the World Conservation Organization. Environment (English: IUCN) participated in North Africa.
SECTIONS The museum has a two floors building with 2500 square meters of infrastructure on a land area of 12,000 square meters, and has several sections, which are: Aquatic, Birds and Mammals Section • Salon of European, Asian and North American specimens with species of deers, North American brown bear and mouse, Asian and Siberian birds and tigers. • Two salons of specimens of mammals, birds and aquatic animals of Iran with species of deer, whole and ram, pheasant, bear, leopard, jackal, fox, wolf and feline small and large. • Salon of specimens of mammals and birds of the African continent. • Salon of aquatics and reptiles which are live and taxidermy. • Large live cat cages, such as Persian leopards and African lions and leopards, and small bird and mammal cages inside the exhibition grounds and on the museum grounds. Geology Section In the geology section, the characteristics of different geological periods from the first eras to the present have been exhibited from the point of view of animal and plant environment along with hundreds of samples of rocks, minerals and fossils of Iran. Butterflies Salon The butterfly salon has specimens of different types of butterflies, spiders, tarantulas and scorpions. Taxidermy Workshop In this workshop, in addition to taxidermy of the specimens under the supervision of the international master of this art, Dr.Hedayatollah Tajbakhsh, how to preserve the specimens of organisms is also exhibited. Live animal touch workshops are set up for students during the Children and Nature Festival and throughout the year.
ACTIVITIES • Publication of many useful books in the field of environment for children and adolescents as well as academic reference. Including the collection "My Beautiful Animals", "Fish of Inland Waters of Iran", Ecology and…
• Training classes for students in different age groups are held during the summer in collaboration with NGOs and active volunteers to increase environmental awareness. • Child and Nature Festival, which is held on the occasion of International Children's Day for a week. During this period, with free entry for children, happy and fun programs with an educational focus on environmental protection are held for them.
• World Museum Day, with free admission for the general public
• The International Cartoon Festival of Man and Nature with the theme of global protection of the earth and the environment, which was held with the active participation of internationally renowned cartoonists.
• Holding nature tours with a focus on education and public awareness to protect the environment.
POSSIBILITIES • The museum library, with more than fifteen thousand volumes of books in specialized fields related to the environment, is one of the most prestigious libraries of plant, animal and geological sciences in Tehran. This library is located at the entrance of the museum for easy access to the general public and is the first public library in Iran that since 1997 has provided the possibility of access and use of the Internet.
• There is a veterinary clinic next to the museum to examine and treat various pets. The clinic also sells a variety of pets, including birds, squirrels, rabbits, dogs and cats, turtles, and a specialist veterinarian.
ATTRIBUTES One of the special features of this museum is having live animal parts such as birds, reptiles and amphibians, aquatic animals, mammals, especially large cats, and in the non-living part, the rare species of Mazandaran tiger skin that has become extinct and its skin specimens in accordance with CITES regulations. Genetically sent to the United States. Also, two examples of the rarest and most beautiful endangered mammals, with the names of Persian zebra and Asian cheetah, are displayed in it. DEPENDED QUERIES • International Cartoon Festival of Man and Nature.