Museo Egizio

Museum Turin, Italy

The Museo Egizio is the only museum other than the Cairo Museum solely dedicated 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. Today’s Museum collection was expanded by the excavations conducted in Egypt by the Museum’s archaeological mission between 1900 and 1935.