Egyptian Museum of Turin
The world's oldest museum devoted to ancient Egypt, holding the intact tomb goods of Kha and Merit.
The Museo Egizio was founded in 1824 when Carlo Felice of Savoy bought the collection assembled by Bernardino Drovetti, Napoleon's consul-general in Egypt, and installed it in the Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze, a seventeenth-century building begun to a design by Guarino Guarini. It is the oldest museum in the world dedicated solely to Egyptian civilisation and the largest such collection outside Cairo, holding more than thirty thousand objects.
Much of the material came from the museum's own excavations at Heliopolis, Assiut, Gebelein and Deir el-Medina between 1900 and 1935, directed by Ernesto Schiaparelli and Giulio Farina. The best known find is the undisturbed tomb of the architect Kha and his wife Merit. The rock-cut temple of Ellesiya, given by Egypt in 1966, and the Gallery of the Kings, restaged by the set designer Dante Ferretti, are further highlights of the modern display.
Highlights
- Intact tomb goods of the architect Kha and his wife Merit
- Gallery of the Kings staged by Dante Ferretti
- Rock-cut temple of Ellesiya, a gift from Egypt
- Papyrus collection including the Turin Kings List
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