Abadan Apprentice Opens Doors To Public During New Year Holidays

Abadan Apprentice Museum was the host of 1547 visitors during new Iranian calendar year holidays, the highest number of visitors among the cultural complexes in the city.

Abadan Apprentice Museum is the second petroleum museum in Abadan. Although the museum has not been inaugurated officially, it was open to the public during the new Iranian calendar year holidays, beginning March 21.

The Petroleum Museums and Documents Center website reported that the management of the museum had decided to open it to people and tourists during the new year holidays even though it has yet to be inaugurated officially.

“round the clock efforts of Abadan Apprentice Museum, as the second petroleum museum in the city made it possible for people to visit the museum at the beginning of the new year”, director of the museum, Amin Zadeh Darvish, told Petroleum Museum and Documents Center website.

 “Apprentice Museum was the host of a number of special visitors including old trainees who once has learned skills here and traveled to Abadan along with their families from across the country to remind old memories. Appropriate location of the museum at the entrance of the city along with accommodation facilities was among the other reasons behind numerous visits to the museum”; director of the museum told the website.

 “opening the museum was also a good trial period for the museum personnel to assess the performance of different sections. Considering weather condition in Abadan, we planned visits for 10 days from 10 in the morning to 21 in the afternoon as of  March 22”, he added.   

Abadan Apprentice Museum consists of four sections including five rooms which are being used as display center, playground for kids and a drawing bus, exterior section containing boilers and pipes and finally the main workshop. 

According to the petroleum museum website report, 47 percent of the visitors were men, 36 percent women, 17 percent children, 40 percent youngsters, 32 percent middle age and 10 percent aged

During visits to Abadan Apprentice Museum, a number of pictures donated to the museum by those who had been experienced work at the center as trainee many years ago.

Abadan Apprentice Museum is the second museum of the petroleum industry. Set up on the site of Abadan Apprentice Training Shop, the new museum is in the final stages of completion and preparation. It is set to open officially soon.

Abadan Apprentice Training Shop was established in 1933 when the Anglo-Persian Oil Company had to hire its manpower, except for senior engineers, from among Iranians.

Amiin Zadeh Darvish, director of Abadan Apprentice Museum, says: "The Abadan Apprentice Training Shop was the first pre-employment training center in the petroleum industry and a product of the 1933 agreement between the Persian Government and APOC."