Visit the Egyptian Museum and purchase the Turin - Piemonte Card

Overview

The tour starts at 10.00 am every saturday all year and with visit in English or Italian.

Tours start in front of our Information Point located in Piazza Castello/via Garibaldi. The meeting point is 15 minutes before.

The visit includes the following itinerary: Piazza Castello - Palazzo Madama - Chiesa di S.Lorenzo - Palazzo Reale - Duomo e Porte Palatine - Piazza Corpus Domini - Galleria S.Federico - Piazza S.Carlo - Egyptian Museum

All tours can be booked until 3 days before the visit, for maximum 6 people. Entrance ticket to the Egyptian museum is not included.

The visits are thought for groups of maximum 25 persons

Cancellations can be accepted until 3 days before the tour; further cancellations cannot be refunded

Details

Art and history are very much at home in Turin, and this can be seen by the city’s museums and palazzos, its piazzas, courtyards and churches, its urban development works and exhibitions, its historic relics and avant-garde pieces, its traditions and its progress. With more than 40 museums, Turin will introduce you to many amazing worlds, while its buildings each tell a significant part of the city’s history. In fact, many great architects, city planners and landscapers have played a significant role in Turin development over the centuries and even today, the most important names in architecture are called upon to redesign the city and plan alterations. Turin, is the ideal holiday city for all ages, couples and families. Come and discover how easy it is to visit and to love it, it has everything you could wish for and will reward you. Yes, because Turin is both serious and playful, historical and natural, sober and worldly-wise, intellectual and eccentric; your every wish will be met. Every Saturday morning a walking itineraries, not to miss any peculiarities of Turin and the opportunity to enjoy unforgettable experiences, to discover the historic centre.

The Egyptian Museum of Turin (the second in the world after the Cairo Museum) was established in 1824, although the University of Turin already owned an important collection of Egyptian material. In the early 19th century, Carlo Felice, influenced by the interest in Egyptian culture which had been spreading all over Europe following Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt, acquired a substantial number of the finds collected by the Piedmontese Bernardino Drovetti, French consul general in Egypt. Between 1903 and 1920 the Italian Archaeological Mission launched a number of excavation campaigns along the Nile, thus acquiring additional material; new pieces were also added to the museum between 1930 and 1969. In 1988 the museum was entirely renovated.

The Most Important Items
The Drovetti Collection, original nucleus of the Egyptian Museum, gathers 98 statues, as well as an extraordinary collection of papyri which can be considered as the most important set of Egyptian written documents in the world. Included in the collection are the Royal Papyrus, also known as the Papyrus from Turin, with the list of all the kings from 3,00 to 1,600 BC; paintings from the tomb of It, discovered in 1911, representing religious scenes as well as agricultural and artisan activities; and the extraordinary cloth, discovered in 1930 in a prehistorically tomb at Gebelein, which is the most ancient painted in the world (3,500 BC); it depicts boats, hunting scenes and ritual dances. The Ellesija Temple from Nubia dating back to more than 3,500 years ago, was presented by the Egyptian government to Italy following the works carried out by the Italian mission in removing monuments and temples from the area of the Assuan Dyke. In order to be transported to Italy, it was extracted and then reconstructed in the museum.

The Tomb of Kha
The tomb, discovered in 1906 during the excavation campaign carried out by the Italian archeological mission in Deir el Medina, is the most impressive and remarkable ensemble of the whole museum. Dating back to 3,500 BC, it houses sarcophagi and statues, as well as furniture, garments and grooming items.

Prices

Euro 10.00 it is not including the admission ticket to the Egyptian Museum

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