The Egyptian Museum of Turin is the oldest museum entirely dedicated to Egyptian culture and is second only to that of Cairo in terms of value and quantity of items. The museum was founded in 1824 when King Carlo Felice bought a collection of over 8,000 pieces accumulated by the consul Drovetti during the occupation of Egypt. This, together with other exhibits belonging to the House of Savoia, gave rise to the first Egyptian Museum in the world.
The collection expanded considerably during the early 20th century when Ernesto Schiapparelli became superintendent of the Museum. He, like his successor Giulio Farina, promoted many excavations in Egypt in order to gather as many aspects and eras of this ancient civilization as possible: in 1937 the museum already had over 30,000 exhibits.
Today, more than 40,000 exhibits can be admired in the museum, ranging from groups of statues to various mummies, from funerary furnishings to everyday items, from papyri to beautifully preserved works of art.
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