The Egyptian Museum of Turin is considered the second Egyptian museum in the world after the Cairo Museum for its worthy finds. The coexistence of artistic objects with daily materials and tools is one of its main features.

Ever since the 18th century the Savoy owned already a collection of Egyptian antiques, but only in 1824 Carlo Felice bought a large number of the finds collected by the Piedmontese Drovetti, French consul general in Egypt, thus creating the first Egyptian museum in the world. Later new pieces were added to the museum thanks to the finds of Schiapparelli.

The Egyptian Museum is located within the historic buiding of Palazzo dell’Accademia delle Scienze, built in the 17th century by the architect Guarino Guarini.

The visit starts in the ground floor where there is, among many antiques, the exhibition of two sphinxes with the face of Amehotep III, Ramses II, Sethi II, of the princess Redi, the group of the king Tutankhamon III and of the god Amenca, the statue of Thutmose III. The rocky little temple of Ellesija (c. 1450 b.C.) deserves absolutely a visit: it was donated to the museum for the works done by the Italian archaeologists during the rescue of the monuments of Nubia, threatened by the Assuan dam.

In the first floor funerary stones and tombstones are exhibited and also the funerary customs are documented: mummies, sarcophaguses, canopy, little statues, amulets. There are as well handmade articles from the Palaeolithic age to the Coptic one: an unknown tomb (2400 b.C.) found intact in Gebelein, the funerary chapel of the painter Meie (1300 b. C.), the tomb of the architect Kha and of his wife Mirit (1400 b.C.) and the famous Isiac table and some weaving tools.