Museo Egizio

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Turin, better known simply as Egyptian
Museum, is considered, for the value of the finds, the most important in the world
after Cairo, as well as the most important in Italy and Europe, followed by that of
Florence . It based in the historic Palace of the Academy of Sciences, home to the
Academy, which also houses the Savoy Gallery, built in the seventeenth century
by the architect Guarino Guarini.The museum was founded in 1824 by Carlo Felice,
who bought the Drovetti Collection, composed of finds of Drovetti Bernardino,
French consul in Egypt. It was later expanded with finds from excavations by Ernesto
Schiaparelli. In the museum there are about 30 thousand pieces covering
the period from the Paleolithic to the Coptic.