Egyptian Museum of Turin

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Located in the right wing of the Palace of the Academy of Sciences, is among the largest museums in the world dedicated exclusively to art and culture of ancient Egypt, for many second after the one in Cairo.
It was founded in 1824 by Carlo Felice, King of Sardinia, around the collection of Bernardino Drovetti, French consul in Egypt between 1803 and 1839.
Un the decades several collections partly antique and partly archaeological were added to the original core, including finds of the Italian Archaeological Mission during excavations conducted between 1900 and 1935. At that time it was in use the criterion that the finds were divided between Egypt and the archaeological missions. Nowadays however it is expected that the findings remain the country of origin. Some rooms are dedicated to the history of the museum;  the interested public will find information and insights about the origin of this prestigious institution.
The Egyptian Museum of Turin retains more than 30 thousand exhibits, of which over 6000 are on display to the public.
Open to the public from April 1, 2015 in the new role restored, after five years of work during which the structure is still left open to the public, the Museum offers a path which develops chronologically and divided into four floors covering a time span of visit ranging from 4000 BC 700 A.D. Among the new features of the recently opened Gallery Coffin, home to the second floor of some of the most beautiful sarcophagi of the Third Intermediate Period and Late period (1100 - 600 a. C) many of them restored.
The tour ends at the ground floor of the monumental statues in the halls set up by production designer Dante Ferretti, in what Champollion, the noted scholar deciphering hieroglyphics, called it "a wonderful assembly of kings and gods." Dante Ferretti is also the author of "Path Nilotic" that takes the audience on the ascent, with the escalators to the exhibition halls from the first to the third floor.
The scientific project, carried out by the Director Christian Greek and the eight curators, is particularly careful to tell the story of the finds and their retrieval.