Museum of Zoroastrian History & Culture
The Museum of Zoroastrian History & Culture in Yazd is located close to Markar Square and the Varahram Fire Temple.
The museum has exhibits explaning Zoroastrian ceremonies, art, clothing and food. There are mannequins in typical clothing and may photographs.
The museum building is over 80 years old and is a pleasant space. The courtyard contains an ab anbar or traditional Persian drinking reservoir.
Yazd has long been a center of the Zoroastrian faith and the Ateshkadeh Fire Temple is said to preserve a flame that has been burning continuously since 470 CE. In the outlying southern suburbs of town are a pair of defunct Zoroastrian Towers of Silence, where the bodies of believers were once left to the vultures after death.
Access - how to get to Yazd
Yazd has daily Iran Air flights to Tehran (70 minutes) and twice-weekly departures to Mashhad.
There are buses to Tehran (10 hours), Esfahan (5 hours), Kerman (6 hours), Bam (9 hours), and Shiraz (7 hours).
There are daily trains from Yazd station, next to the main bus station in Rah Ahan Square in the south of the city, to Tehran (approx 8 hours). The overnight trains depart for Tehran, via Kashan and Qom. There is also a daily train to Bandar-e Abbas (9-10 hours).
Museum of Zoroastrian History & Culture
Miilad Alley, Markar Square, Yazd
Tel: 98 35 3627 0016
www.facebook.com/markarmuseum
The museum is open daily (except Monday) from 4.30 pm-8.30 pm.
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