The Unfinished Museum: The Case of Pasargadae World Heritage Site Museum

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The Unfinished Museum: The Case of Pasargadae World Heritage Site Museum

This paper examines, for the first time, the problem of an unfinished site museum in the World Heritage Site of Pasargadae in Iran. Pasargadae was constructed as the capital of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid dynasty in 500 BCE. Sources have suggested that at this location Cyrus defea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mozaffari, Ali, Westbrook, N.
Other Authors:	Antony Mouis
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	Published for the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/49705

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