Egyptian Museum in Turin

This museum, second in importance only after El Cairo one, is in Turin from two centuries. The Palace in which it’s hosted is dated back in XVII century and it’s the seat of the Science Academy (which hosts Savoyard Gallery also). The foundation of the Museum is dated back in 1826, by Carlo Felice who bought the collection of a French consul in Egypt: Bernardino Drovetti. The collection was successively enriched by finds of Ernesto Schiapparelli. The most known archaeological finds there conserved are: The Papyrus of Turin (or Royal Canon), a document which helps to reconstruct the sequence of kings which followed one other on the throne of Egypt; The Papyrus of the Gold Mines, on which is represented a map of a mining site in Nubia; The intact tombs of Kha and Merit, Kha was the chief architect of the works for king Amenhotep III tomb, and Merit was his wife. There are also conserved the statues of the goddess Isis and Sekhet and a statue of Ramesses II, which was found in the temple of the goddess Mut a Karnak. The latest important acquisition, in the ‘70’s, was the little temple of Ellesija, given from the Egypt to Italy, as thanks for the work made in the safeguard of the archaeological sites menaced from the construction of Aswan dam.

Information to visit the Egyptian Museum of Turin:

Tickets: 7,50 €, reduce ticket 3,50 (young 18-25 years, teachers, helpers), free entrance for under 18 and disabled.
When: from Tuesday to Sunday 8,30 am – 7,30 pm (last entrance 6,30 pm)
How to get here: Train: from Porta Nuova or Porta Susa station, bus 55 or 56 or tram 13, stop “Piazza Castello”; Bus 13, 55, 56, 72; Metro, stop: “Porta Nuova”.