Museum of antiquities, Archaeological museum in Turin, Italy

The Museum of Antiquities is Turin's archaeological museum, heir to the Royal Museum of Antiquities founded in 1724. Since 2022 its collections have been displayed in the Archaeological Gallery of the Manica Nuova of the Royal Palace, connected to the remains of the Roman theatre of Augusta Taurinorum. It is divided into three sections: the Archaeological Gallery, Archaeology of the Territory and Archaeology of Turin.

The Savoy antiquities collection began in 1572, when Duke Emanuele Filiberto gathered it in the Teatro ducale. Fires in 1658 and 1811 destroyed the galleries holding it, leaving only a 1631 inventory. In 1723 Vittorio Amedeo II had Scipione Maffei arrange the lapidi from the demolished Bastione della Consolata, and the Regio Museo di Antichità was founded in 1724. The Egyptian collection of Bernardino Drovetti, bought by Carlo Felice, joined it in 1832; the two were separated in 1940.

The Egyptian collection left this museum in 1940, when it was separated to form the Museo Egizio; what remains here are the Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Cypriot and prehistoric holdings. The Turin rooms, overlooking the masonry of the Roman theatre of Augusta Taurinorum, trace the city from its Roman founding to the Lombard necropolis of Collegno.

The museum occupies the ground floor and the Manica Nuova of Palazzo Reale, entered from Piazza Castello; the Turin archaeology rooms look directly onto the remains of the Roman theatre of Augusta Taurinorum. On foot it is about 1.5 km from Porta Nuova station and 1.8 km from Porta Susa; buses 11 and 19 and tram 4 stop nearby. The territory section is arranged on ramps, tracing Piedmont's past from the Middle Ages back to prehistory.

The Turin museum's Egyptian objects left in 1940, when the Egyptian collection was separated to give it its own space; the antiquities museum kept the Greco-Roman, Etruscan, Cypriot and Piedmontese material. In the Manica Nuova, opened in 2022, visitors pass the remains of the Roman theatre of Augusta Taurinorum, against which the Turin archaeology rooms are set.