Holding traditional ritual in Darvazeh dowlat museum
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Ritual dances, reciting of the Shahnameh and puppetry were held at the invitation of the management of the museums and document center of oil industry and the cooperation of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts at the time of Nowruz at the Darvazeh dowlat Gas Station Museum in Tehran.
According to the public relations report department of management of museums and document center of oil industry, The artists brought happy moments to the visitors by performing Kurdish, Khorasani and Turkish ritual dances.
also, reading of Shahnameh by Yesna Dibayan and puppetry by Janan Jamshidi welcomed and encouraged the visitors.
Darvazeh dowlat gas station museum In other words, the fuel station No. 6 was built in the last years of the 1310s of the Islamic Hijri, parallel to the first Pahlavi period, by the British petroleum (BP) Oil Company for the distribution of petroleum products such as kerosene, gasoline, and amshi, and was opened as a museum in July 2018.
In each of the sections of this museum, various topics have been discussed, including the history of Darvazeh dowlat neighborhood, the way the place was formed and operated, as well as photos, documents, maps and historical films related to this place, examples of things related to the distribution, transportation and emptying of fuel and Samples of gasoline pump devices are displayed in this museum.
In August 2014, this place was registered as number 31711 in the list of national works of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts.
