Museo Egizio, History museum in Turin, Italy
The Egyptian Museum is a collection dedicated to antiquities from the Nile valley, housed in a 17th-century palace in the northwestern Italian city. The building holds sculptures, mummies, coffins, and papyrus scrolls arranged across several stories.
King Charles Felix bought the collection of diplomat Bernardino Drovetti in 1824 and opened the institution the same year. Later expeditions to the Nile and donations steadily added more pieces over the following decades.
The institution brings together objects once used in daily life, religious ceremonies, and burials along the Nile. Visitors walk past sculpted gods, jewelry, and household items that show how people organized their world thousands of years ago.
The entrance stands on Via Accademia delle Scienze 6 in the city center, within walking distance of Porta Nuova railway station. Tickets should be bought online beforehand to avoid waiting in line.
Jean-François Champollion worked here on decoding hieroglyphics, drawing on the papyrus holdings of the institution. Some of the pieces served as reference material for his groundbreaking research on ancient Egyptian writing.
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