Museo Egizio

"Opened in 1824 and housed in the austere Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze, this Turin institution houses the most important collection of Egyptian treasures outside Cairo." Full review

"The best antiquities collection outside Cairo." Full review

"The Egyptian museum is located in a 17C palace, also the headquarters of the Science Academy." Full review

"Built in the 17C by Guarini, the palace is today the headquarters of the Academy of Science founded in 1757 by mathematician Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange."

"The Egyptian museum is housed in a 17C palazzo, also the headquarters of the Science Academy. The museum boasts one of the world's finest collections of Egyptian antiquities." Full review

"The Museo Egizio boasts a staggering 26,000 Egyptian artefacts and counting"

"Among the cultural highlights, the Museo Egizio fills a 17th-century palazzo and brims with Egyptian artefacts. If it happens to be your birthday, you avoid the €15 admission fee."

"The most captivating exhibits are the exquisitely painted wooden sarcophagi and mummies of Kha and Merit, an aristocratic couple whose tomb was discovered in 1906." Full review

"Among the cultural highlights, the Museo Egizio fills a 17th-century palazzo and brims with Egyptian artefacts. If it happens to be your birthday, you avoid the €15 admission fee."