More Than 1100 Tourists Visit Abadan Petroleum Museum
Thursday, February 23, 2017
More than 1100 tourists visited the Museum of Abadan Gas Station, the curator of the museum, Ladan Alipour, said.
Speaking to the petroleum museums website correspondent, she added that “1125 people visited the museum during the first 20 days of opening the museum to the public on January 19th.
Alipour distinguished the visitors into two groups, noting the morning visitors are mainly tourists, training groups, and students while in the afternoon families and individuals come to the museum.
In response to the growing number of visitors, she said: Abadan residents are very happy with the opening of the museum because it introduces the history of oil in their city. Meanwhile, those who come to Abadan from other cities consider it as a sight-seeing.
Elsewhere in her remarks, she said that in order to make the society well-acquainted with the museum, we have decided to advertise its opening in public places of the city such as the airport, bus terminals, and shopping centers.
It is worth nothing that an oil gas station in Abadan, as the first gas station built in Iran, has been restored recently in order to become a museum. It is also the first petroleum museum out of a collection of petroleum museums which are planned to be launched across the country.
Some items of the museum are various old gas dispensers with operation date, a vehicle filling fuel, a kerosene store, an oil tank fastened with rivets, a collection of tanker trucks and historical oil products distribution documents.
The museum has been established at Iran's oldest gas station in Abadan which was built by British Petroleum in 1927. The building was operational for 40 years before being closed.
At that time, it provided oil and gasoline for household and transportation sectors. It also served airplanes.
The petroleum ministry is also planning to convert some other historical petroleum building into museums throughout the city including the technical-vocational school, Abadan historical jetty, power plant number 1 and the luxury houses.
Generally, 20 spots have been selected to house petroleum museums in Abadan, of which five are prioritized for the first phase.
