Egyptian Museum - Turin

It was opened to the public in Turin as a museum, not just a museum.
It was part of an archaeological museum in 1824 (previously Cairo).

Former Turin citizen Bernardino Drovetti, who left for France after the end of the occupation of Piedmont by Napoleon Bonoparte in 1814, was sent to Egypt as a French consul. There he collected his Egyptian collection, which he later sold to the Court of Savoy.

The collection founded by Drovetti was subsequently enriched by various expeditions to Egypt and other sources.

Currently, the collection has about 30,000 copies.

One of the main themes of the collection of the modern Egyptian Museum in Turin is the so-called “cult of the dead”, popular in ancient Egypt. The museum displays “books of the dead,” which were embedded in sarcophagi and served to support and help those who made their transition from “this world to the next.” The books contained descriptions of the stages of "Psychostasy" - the process of evaluating the entire human life.

On the example of the collection of the museum, you can clearly see the developed religious system of ancient Egypt and many deities taking various forms: from human to bizarre animals.

In Turin in the 19th century to study the collection of the museum came the famous Jean-François Champillon – a Frenchman who managed to decipher the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Today, the Egyptian Museum is a modern art museum with mysterious statues of Egyptian deities and pharaohs. With regard to some of the most unique copies of the collection of the museum, due to their highest value for the Egyptian state, there is still a debate about their return to their historical homeland.