Museo Antichità Di Torino

The Museum of Antiquities in Turin is one of the oldest European galleries. It is the National Archaeological Museum of Piedmont.

Founded in the sixteenth century as dynastic collection Dukes of Savoy, the antiques collection since 1724 is part of the Royal University Museum, donated to the university in Turin by Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia. In 1824 the arrival of the Egyptian collection of Bernardino Drovetti determines in 1832 the transfer to the Palace of the Academy of Sciences under the new name of antiquities and Egyptian Museum. After the separation, in 1940, the Egyptian Museum, which is still at its original site, the archaeological collections in 1989 found accommodation in the Orangeries of the Royal Palace. A new pavilion partly underground, which opened in 1998, houses the archaeological finds from excavations conducted in the Piedmont area and connects the Orangeries the underground halls of the New Wing of the Palazzo Reale exhibition Archaeology in Turin and the archaeological area of ​​the Roman Theatre.

In the Territory Sector, the exhibits are presented to visitors through a chronological path that winds back from the Renaissance to the Paleolithic, as in an ideal archaeological dig. You can admire, testimony of castles and low-medieval monasteries, exceptional grave goods Lombards, rich testimonies of the Roman Piedmont excel including the famous bronzes of Industry, important finds expression of Celtic culture people of the region during the Iron Age with prestigious artifacts which attest the Etruscans, the archaeological record of the Bronze age sites known as the pile-dwelling settlement of Viverone, and Neolithic, witnesses of the oldest permanent human presence in Piedmont and traces of seasonal movements of human groups in the Mesolithic and in the Paleolithic.

The Sector of the Historical Collections, transports the visitor along the Peninsula, in continental Europe and in the Mediterranean basin, between prehistoric and proto-historic, Etruscan, Greek and Magna Greek, Roman, Phoenician and Assyrian, and among extraordinary masterpieces - from psykter signed by Euthymides, the portrait of Caesar from Tusculum, the famous relief of Kairos, the Roman copy in green basalt Amazon's Phidias, the emperor statue in red porphyry from Egypt - in a fascinating journey from Cyprus to Khorsabad ( Iraq).