More than 1100 tourists visit Abadan petro-museum

Sunday, April 9, 2017More than 1100 tourists visit Abadan petro-museum

More than 1100 tourists visited the Museum of Abadan Gas Station during the Iranian new year holidays, which begins March 21 and lasts for 13 days.

As the first Iranian petro-museum, the Museum of Abadan Gas Station was inaugurated in January this year and since its opening to the public, it has been the host of 4100 tourists from across the country.

Meanwhile, for the Abadan residents, the museum is the reminder of their past memories including those devices were used for warming and the way of providing fuel while for the new generation of the city it is a good venue for getting familiar with past way of life and the history of the city.

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During the Iranian new year holidays, called Noruz in Persian language, opening hours of the museum extended so that it was the host of visitors from 10 AM to 11 PM nonstop.

 Museum of Abadan Gas Station, which was inaugurated last month in the southwestern city of Abadan, is located on the venue of a gas station which set up as the first gas station in Iran in 1927 by British Petroleum (BP).

The ministry also plans to open other petroleum museums in four other locations in the city including at the technical-vocational school, Abadan historical jetty, power plant number 1 and luxury houses, according to the director of Petro-museums Akbar Nematollahi.

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In the main building of the Museum of Abadan Gas Station, all documents and objects related to the gas station like pumps, scales, jerry cans and other tools and documents are on display.

The museum has also put in display different oil industry equipment in its open-air space including different kinds of old gas dispensers with their date of use, a vehicle symbolically filling its fuel tank, a small room used by gas station attendants, a room which used to house selling kerosene, fuel supply tankers and old riveted tanks, components of gas dispensers, kerosene lamps and stoves, oil related historical documents including newspapers, advertisements, kerosene, gasoline and gasoil coupons, banknotes, stamps and other cultural products.