📍Via Accademia delle Scienze 6
🎫 Admission: adults €18, students €15
🕒 Opening hours: Monday 9:00-14:00, Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-18:30

The main attraction of Turin, in addition to the city's architecture, is a very famous Egyptian museum. In the mid-18th century, the king of Sardinia ordered botanists to travel to the east bank of the Nile and collect more than 300 artifacts at the Temple of Karnak in Thebes to bring back to Turin. In the early 19th century, the later king purchased more than 5,000 artifacts, including sculptures, steles and mummies, from the French consul who had accompanied Napoleon's expeditionary force to Egypt.

Since then, Turin has acquired numerous treasures, even the oldest version of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which makes the Turin Museum of ancient Egyptian antiquities in size, collection and treasure, second only to the Egyptian National Museum and ranked second in the world. It is also the most visited museum in Italy all year round.

In order to consolidate its position, the Savoy Dynasty of Italy collected and mined a large number of Egyptian cultural relics. The museum currently houses more than 40,000 works, including artifacts from ancient Egypt to AD, and more than 30,000 objects, including mummies, sarcophagi, deities, artifacts and important Papirus manuscripts. One of the most famous exhibits is the huge statue of Ramesses II. And saw the same blue rhinoceros as the met! Well worth a visit! Unfortunately, the time is short and there is no time to rent a guide to see the exhibition.

It is recommended to buy tickets online and two or three days in advance, four or five days in advance of holidays, because it is very popular, often sold out, student tickets 3 euros, full price tickets 14 euros, after entering the underground entrance you need to go to the right window to check the student ID.

☑️ Three impressive themes:

🟨 The Book of the Dead

The most famous Turin Book of the Dead, the full text of more than 150 chapters, preserved intact, the scale is extremely long. In fact, there are many long books of the dead in the collection. The contents are mainly the personal resume submitted by the tomb owner to the God of the underworld, and the path of the tomb owner's soul to eternal life.

It is a book that ancient Egyptian emperors put in tombs and sarcophagi for the dead to "read" after their death. Used to help the dead to read through difficulties in the afterlife and gain eternal life. One of the most famous spells in the Book of the Dead states that when one dies, one must be judged before Osiris, the god of the underworld, and must deny all possible crimes and name the 42 judges of the underworld in order to be found innocent and enter eternal life.


🟨 Stone statues

The best king hall is full of statues of ancient Egyptian Kings, as well as statues of various gods. That's the level of realism that triggers the camera's face recognition.

A mummy is a treated body wrapped in linen. The mummies were also placed in wooden or sarcophagi, and some were also placed in stone coffins. Wooden mummy coffins are the focus of the museum's exhibition. Many are even displayed as they are, divided into several layers for the audience to see clearly.


And this year is the 200th anniversary, the day I went there happened to have an activity, got free gifts, ate free ice cream, and went home in the evening to watch a personal biopic film with the landlord, which is about an artist, we went to the time is not very good, we watched the German original and Italian subtitles, but we can also understand 778, 88, because there is less dialogue. After all, art doesn't need to be explained.