Museo Egizio, Piedmont, Italy

4.5 (25.0k reviews) Monday: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #1 in Piedmont Art Museums • History Museums

Oldest Egyptian Museum in the world

The Museo delle Antichità Egizie is the only museum other than the Cairo Museum that is dedicated solely to Egyptian art and culture. Many international scholars, since the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion, who came to Turin in 1824, spend much time pouring over the collections. It was Champollion who famously wrote, “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”.The collections that make up today’s Museum, were enlarged by the excavations conducted in Egypt by the Museum’s archaeological mission between 1900 and 1935 (a period when finds were divided between the excavators and Egypt).The Egyptian Museum in Turin has begun 2009 an important project which wants to widen spaces in order to enhance the collections through modern museographical and museological criteria. The Museum will be open all over the period of restoration and the New Egyptian Museum inauguration is scheduled for the year 2015.
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Address

Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6 Aperto Anche il Lunedi Mattina, 10123 Turin Italy

Mobile

+39 011 561 7776

Website

http://www.museoegizio.it/

Email

[email protected]

Working hours

Monday : 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Tuesday : 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Wednesday : 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Thursday : 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Friday : 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Saturday : 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Sunday : 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

Current local date and time now

Monday, May 06, 2024, 17:45

User Ratings

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5kph 5:00 PM Aug 20, 2022
Excellent, not for smaller kids
Excellent museum, great collection, well organized, but be aware that it’s all very dense so small kids won’t enjoy it. My 10 year old did Egypt as a theme at school so was more interested. My 7 year old who is fascinated by Egypt so was very excited about the visit got bored quickly. Be sure to charge your phone and take your earbuds, you can go around the museum use your phone as an audio guide. It’s a shame there’s not a section for making it more kids friendly.
4W41 5:00 PM Jan 10, 2023
An amazing range of artefacts
We went between Christmas and New Year and the museum was extremely busy and pre-booking online was essential. Excellent displays and informative explanations in Italian and English helped to represent the richness of Egyptian culture and history. Well worth a visit.