Ethnology Museum

Iran


The brick-vaulted basement of the the Khorshid Palace contains a graciously cool ethnology museum, graphically depicting Khorasan village life and also showing a cut-away section of the 18th-century pipework that once delivered fresh water 6km to the palace site.

Admission is included in the ticket price for the Khorshid Palace complex.


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