It's our last day in Tehran and Iran, and we decide to make it a museum day. We start out with the carpet museum. It's really, really bad. This is generally what you get. Most of the carpets are neither very old nor very beautiful, it looks like a fairly random selection of carpets that may be interesting to carpet people, but to the rest of us, they're just carpets. You're better off just browsing the carpets in the bazaar.

When we visit, only the first floor is open for visitors. Supposedly there is a lot to see on the second floor, but they're a bit short on staff or something, so they won't let us go up there.

We're lucky, though. Based on the comments in the guestbook, recently they haven't even bothered to turn on the lights on the first floor, so visitors haven't really been able to see the carpets very well.

Anyway, stay away from the carpet museum. You're time is better spent elsewhere. Like at the Museum of Contemporary Art, just next door. Except we're stopped when we try to enter it. Closed until further notice, they say. Rumour has it that the government aren't too fond of contemporary art. .