The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin or the Egyptian Museum, is considered the most important in the world after Cairo.
The museum is located in the historic Palace of the Academy of Sciences, was founded in 1824 by Charles Felix, who acquired the collection Drovetti. It was later expanded with the finds from excavations of Ernesto Schiaparelli.
The museum contains about 30 thousand pieces covering the period from the Paleolithic era to Coptic era, there are large statues, papyri, stelae, sarcophagi and mummies, bronze objects, amulets and jewelry, and everyday objects such as vases, dishes, utensils , trunks and baskets, stools, fabrics and objects of cosmetics, mirrors, combs, pins, jars for creams and ointments.
The collection is characterized by exceptional documents, art expression, religious and funerary traditions and daily life. The most important things to see are:
- Intact tomb of Kha and Merit;
- Temple of Ellesija;
- Canon Royal, known as the Turin Papyrus, one of the most important sources on the sequence of Egyptian kings;
- Mensa isiaca;
- Painted canvas of Gebelein;
- Survey of Djoser;
- Statues of the goddesses Isis and Sekhmet and that of Ramses II discovered by Vitaliano Donati in the temple of goddess Mut at Karnak;
- Papyrus of gold mines;
- Mummies of sacred animals, related to the worship of deities and ibis and baboons of the god Thoth, crocodile of god Sobek, the hawks of god Horo, bulls of the god Hapi, fishes of the goddess Neith, cats goddess Bastet.
The exhibition is on three floors and a the visit is not less than 2 hours.
Opening hours:
- From Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30 to 19:30 (last admission at 18:30).
- Closed on Monday and 25 December .
Tickets:
- Whole: € 7.50.
- Reduced: € 3.50 (people between 18 and 25 years, teachers indefinitely accompanying disabled).
- Free for children under 18 years and over 65, disabled, military.
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