Inside a Baroque building in the center of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world awaits you. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 40.000 artifacts, of which 3.300 on display. The extraordinary selection of statues, papyri, sarcophagi, and objects from everyday life, off ers to the visitor a journey back in time covering more than 4.000 years of history, archaeology and art.
In 2015, the Museo Egizio has doubled in size and has inaugurated a renewed exhibition path that develops on 4 fl oors and includes 15 rooms. It is considered the most important museum devoted to Egyptian antiquities after the one in Cairo and it is a destination not to be missed in order to understand one of the most fascinating cultures of antiquity.
museoegizio.it | Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, Torino Italy
