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In Turin, the capital of the Piedmont region of northwest Italy, sports cars and chocolate are a matter of pride. The city is also home to the Museo Egizio, one of the most impressive collections of Egyptian artifacts in the world. A stroll around Piazza Castello and along the Via Roma encompasses many of the must-see sights. Valentino Park houses an 18th-century castle, botanic garden and medieval village. When you've worked up an appetite, sample casual trattorias for pastas, regional wines and coffees.
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1. Museo Egizio
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4.5 based on 24,213 reviews
The Museo delle Antichità Egizie is the only museum other than the Cairo Museum that is dedicated solely 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. It was Champollion who famously wrote, “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”.The collections that make up today’s Museum, were enlarged by the excavations conducted in Egypt by the Museum’s archaeological mission between 1900 and 1935 (a period when finds were divided between the excavators and Egypt).The Egyptian Museum in Turin has begun 2009 an important project which wants to widen spaces in order to enhance the collections through modern museographical and museological criteria. The Museum will be open all over the period of restoration and the New Egyptian Museum inauguration is scheduled for the year 2015.
Reviewed By 183syllac - Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Renovated three or four years ago, contains an astonishing array of Egyptian artifacts of the highest quality, most of them "acquired" by at times dubious means, at the beginning of the 19th century and offering a fascinating vision of Ancient Egypt. A treasure house of precious objects and cultural treasures.
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3. MAO - Museo d'Arte Orientale
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4.5 based on 1,006 reviews
The MAO - Museum of Oriental Art opens in Turin proposes creative work from different cultures not only to carry out the vocation as a place for conservation and exhibition, but also to induce the visitor to broaden their horizons.The MAO is also proposed as a means of mediation for the visitors generally away from the conceptions and cultural climates in which the works on display are for. The museum aims to inspire visitors in new ways of thinking and representation to full awareness of how precious every expression of human knowledge.
Reviewed By ValerioDM - Udine, Italy
Very special exposition of original pieces of oriental art made with stone, wood, iron, broze, gold, paper, cloth and human bones (see pic). Pieces are organized by historical period and geographic area.
4. Fondazione Accorsi Ometto - Museo di Arti Decorative
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4.5 based on 358 reviews
The Accorsi - Ometto Museum, open to the public in Dicember 1999, hosts the polished collection of Pietro Accorsi, one of the most important European antique dealers of the 20th century. The Museum is conceived as a home-museum elegantly furnished, in accordance with the antique dealer's taste and the sensibility of Giulio Ometto, his longstanding collaborator and President of the Foundation. The 27 rooms of the museum, reconstructed with extraordinary richness, recreate a refined home of the eighteenth century, where furniture and objects are fitted into an ancient setting to each other. Among the many masterpieces held, the collection includes the secretaire-cabinet in rare wood with ivory and tortoiseshell made in 1738 by Pietro Piffetti, considered certainly "one of the most beautiful piece of furniture in the world".
5. Musei Reali
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4.5 based on 385 reviews
Reviewed By 445nikr - Varna, Bulgaria
Palazzo Reale in Turin is one of the best and well-kept palaces in the world that has been turned into a museum. It is actually a complex of diverse museums which includes the richly furnished and decorated rooms in the palace itself; the Royal Armory where a large collection of weapons and fire arms are on display along with a genuine samurai armor donated to King Victor Emmanuel II by Emperor Meiji; the Sabauda Gallery where lots of sculptures and paintings that belonged to the Dukes of Savoy are exhibited; the Museum of Antiquity which has plenty Greek and Roman archaeological objects found in Piemonte; the Chapel of the Holy Shroud which was built to house the famous shroud until it was finally transferred to the Cathedral of Turin - at the time we visited it, the signs of the fire, that broke out in 1997 and had damaged the chapel, were still visible; the Royal Library with its many manuscripts and drawings; and finally the Royal Gardens which are the perfect opportunity to relax after getting overwhelmed with arts. The museums do not work on Mondays and are free on every first Sunday of the month. It is not to be missed when you are in Turin!
6. Museum of Urban Art
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4.5 based on 19 reviews
7. Officina della Scrittura
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4.5 based on 34 reviews
Officina della Scrittura è il primo museo al mondo dedicato alla Scrittura e al Segno dell'uomo, attraverso un grande progetto che testimonia la nascita e l’evoluzione di un’invenzione straordinaria, quella della comunicazione non orale. Un museo unico nel suo genere che presenta un perfetto mix di tecnologia e tradizione, attraverso un percorso organico che racconta tutto ciò che è legato alla cultura della scrittura: dalle pitture rupestri fino alle svariate forme della comunicazione contemporanea. Orari: - giorni feriali, escluso il Mercoledì, dalle 9 alle 18 - ogni ultimo weekend del mese, dalle 10 alle 19
8. MEF Outside
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
9. The Art of the Brick
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4.5 based on 13 reviews
10. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
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4.0 based on 481 reviews
Reviewed By RoddieA
This is a must see site in Turin if you have even the slightest interest in art. It consists of "just" 24 works... from the private Agnelli collection. But oh are they sublime !! There are 22 paintings: 6 Canalettos, 2 Bellottos, 7 Matizes, 2 Picassos, a Renoir, a Modigliani, a Guido Reni and 2 pieces from the Modern Futurists school. There are also 2 superb Canova sculptures. Every one of them a masterpiece. Obviously you could spend a long time looking at such a fabulous collection but equally, if time is tight, it's the sort of place that you could do reasonably quickly. It is easily accessed at the end of the metro line about 20 minutes from the city centre. The building that houses the museum is itself a wonderful and clever piece of architecture and sits on top of the old Fiat factory, which is now a shopping centre. As an extra bonus, you can walk out onto the roof to what was once famous as Fiat's test track, complete with banked curves at both ends.
