Museo Egizio In Turin, Archaeological museum in Turin, Italy
The Museo Egizio occupies a building on Via Accademia delle Scienze whose brick and stone facade has four grey cylindrical columns and an arched entrance inscribed "ACADEMIAE" and "SCIENTIARVM". Inside, five exhibition levels, four above ground and one underground, follow a chronological route from the Paleolithic to the Coptic era. The collection numbers more than 40,000 artifacts, among them 24 human mummies, 17 animal mummies and 700 complete papyri.
King Charles Felix founded the museum in 1824 by purchasing a large collection from Bernardino Drovetti, a former consul in Egypt. Later, additional collections were added, including finds from Italian excavations in the Nile valley.
The Museo Egizio carries an Italian name with Egyptian reference and displays finds in modern cases that visitors can view at eye level. The galleries are organized by theme, so you see everyday objects next to burial goods and understand how people lived along the Nile.
The museum is located on Via Accademia delle Scienze in central Turin and opens Tuesday through Sunday from 9 to 18:30, and on Monday until 14:00. The halls are accessible by lifts and ramps, so wheelchair users can reach all areas.
The Turin King List, a papyrus listing Egyptian rulers, was among the texts Champollion studied here. A parapsychologist was later contacted in 1950 to locate missing portions of it, without success. The museum also holds the intact tomb equipment of Kha and Merit, found by Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1906.
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