Unofficial visitor guide · Turin
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The Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin has a free audio guide that runs on your own phone, in Italian, English and French, covering 105 objects in the permanent galleries. If your language isn't one of them, or you want to hear the labels of other objects, here is what helps.
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Checked on 15 October 2026 from the sources linked above. Museums change their guides and rules; confirm on the official Museo Egizio website before you go.
Checked on 15 October 2026 from the sources linked above. Museums change their guides and rules; confirm on the official Museo Egizio website before you go.
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In year 29 of Ramesses III, the scribe Amennakht reported that the tomb-builders of Deir el-Medina had stopped work because their grain rations, which were their pay, had not come. The men sat behind Thutmose III's temple shouting that they were hungry and demanded that the pharaoh and the vizier be told.
South is at the top of this map of the Wadi Hammamat, and its hills are pink, banded or black by rock type, with 28 hieratic captions marking roads, gold deposits and quarries of greenish bekhen-stone. The valley's big bends would not fit on the scroll, so the scribe simply straightened them.
museoegizio.it collection: Turin map papyrus, Cat. 1879 · museoegizio.it papyrus platform: Turin Mine Map
According to a 2015 PLOS ONE study, Merit's own coffin was probably unfinished when she died suddenly, so she was laid in one made for her husband Kha, padded with his monogrammed linen. Her wrappings held fish oil, a highly unusual find, and the coffins' black coating proved to be Pistacia resin, not bitumen.
Bianucci et al. 2015, PLOS ONE: the mummies of Kha and Merit
Egypt gave Italy this chapel, which the museum calls the oldest rock-cut temple in Nubia, in thanks for its help in the Nubian rescue campaign. It was sawn into 66 blocks, rebuilt in Turin and opened on 4 September 1970, while its sister gifts went to Madrid, Leiden and New York. It has its own free entrance on Via Duse.
museoegizio.it: history of the museum · museoegizio.it: Ellesiya and the Nubian temples
His face is so like his father Seti I's that the statue was long thought to be Seti's, taken over by his son, yet the catalogue finds no sign of recutting. Nefertari, who died in year 30, stands at his legs, placing it early in the reign. Champollion wrote that he looked at it every day for six months.
Months after Piedmont bought Drovetti's collection for 400,000 lire, Champollion entered the Palazzo dei Nobili on 9 June 1824 and exclaimed, in Italian, 'Questo è cosa stupenda!' He stayed until 28 February 1825, writing home of more than 50 inscribed statues and over 200 hieroglyphic manuscripts.
Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Quaderni 44 (Roccati and D'Amicone, 2024) · Treccani, Dizionario Biografico: Bernardino Drovetti
Turin already owned a stele naming Kha and Merit, part of the Drovetti collection, about 80 years before Schiaparelli's team opened the inner chamber of their untouched tomb at Deir el-Medina on 15 February 1906. According to the museum, its contents are the only intact New Kingdom burial assemblage outside Egypt.
Bianucci et al. 2015, PLOS ONE: the mummies of Kha and Merit · museoegizio.it: reinstallation of the Room of Kha and Merit
This granodiorite pair was never finished. Look for the king's kilt and nemes headdress with no stripes, the queen's headdress missing its vulture wings, and the bound enemies on one side of the throne carved only in their upper half. The back records Horemheb's coronation and notes he had been Tutankhamun's general.
museoegizio.it collection: Horemheb and Mutnedjemet, Cat. 1379
Since 4 December 2025, Kha's papyrus of 33 spells has lain tilted at up to 45 degrees in a case about 14 metres long with the oxygen taken out. According to the museum, it is the world's first case of that size built for papyri, and the oxygen-free air kills insects at every stage of their life.
Carved for Amenhotep III for the Temple of Mut at Karnak, this Sekhmet was claimed about two centuries later by Ramesses IV, whose cartouches were added to the throne and even to her dress. The right side of the throne names five more goddesses, Mut, Wadjyt, Bastet, Satet and Menhit, as other forms of the sun god's daughter.
Tales of Museums reads the label in front of you aloud in your language, for any label you can photograph. The museum allows personal headphones and asks you to mute your phone, so bring headphones; there is free Wi-Fi, but mobile data is a useful backup.
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The museum's free audio guide is in Italian, English and French and covers 105 objects in the permanent galleries; you use it in your phone's browser. Guided tours with museum guides are bought online in Italian, and booked by phone or email in English, French, German and Spanish. museoegizio.it: audio guide · museoegizio.it: FAQ (Italian)
Yes. Photos and video are allowed without flash or professional equipment. Tripods and easels need the museum's permission, requested by email in advance, and professional shoots need the management's authorisation. museoegizio.it: FAQ · museoegizio.it: visitor guidelines (PDF)
Yes: tickets are sold online only, for a time slot, and cannot be bought at the museum. A full ticket is €18; over-70s pay €15, 15 to 18-year-olds and university students €3, children aged 6 to 14 €1, and children up to 5 go free. A family ticket for two adults and two children is €36. The museum puts an average visit at about two hours. museoegizio.it: FAQ · museoegizio.it: visitor information (French)
Yes. The museum's own audio guide runs on visitors' smartphones, and its rules say personal headphones may be used. Keep your phone on mute and your voice low; video calls and speakerphone are not allowed. The free Wi-Fi network is called MUSEOEGIZIOFREE. museoegizio.it: visitor guidelines (PDF) · museoegizio.it: audio guide
Not all of it: the Historic Rooms on floor -1 have been closed since 12 December 2025, and the cloakroom is suspended during the renovation. The museum expects the works, including a new covered courtyard open to the public, to be finished in November 2026. museoegizio.it: Historic Rooms notice · museoegizio.it: FAQ · museoegizio.it: 2026 budget note (Italian, PDF)
The Museo Egizio is a 10 to 15-minute walk from Porta Nuova station along Via Lagrange, which becomes Via Accademia delle Scienze; or take bus 58 or 58B, or tram 4, to the Bertola stop. From Porta Susa it is a 20 to 25-minute walk, or tram 13 to the Castello stop. Drivers can use the Roma-San Carlo-Castello car park, open 24 hours. museoegizio.it: directions · museoegizio.it: FAQ
The Museo Egizio opens at 9 am every day and closes at 2 pm on Mondays, 8 pm on Saturdays and 6.30 pm on other days, with last entry an hour before closing. Allow about two hours; for a calmer visit the museum suggests the late afternoon or a Saturday evening, and weekdays rather than weekends. museoegizio.it: FAQ · museoegizio.it: accessibility
Yes. There are no architectural barriers in the galleries and every floor is reached by lift. The museum lends two free wheelchairs at the ticket office, which cannot be reserved. Disabled visitors and one companion enter free; the museum recommends booking the free ticket online in advance. museoegizio.it: accessibility · museoegizio.it: FAQ
Yes: children up to 5 enter free, pushchairs are welcome throughout, and there are baby-changing facilities and low toilets for children. The museum's small café, Pausa Caffè, is reached from Room 7, the Tomb of Kha, and serves coffee, drinks, sandwiches and snacks. museoegizio.it: accessibility · museoegizio.it: FAQ
Entry to the Museo Egizio is free on your birthday (show ID at the ticket office), for all women on International Women's Day (8 March), and for fathers and mothers visiting with their children on Father's Day and Mother's Day. These promotions do not apply to groups. museoegizio.it: fares · museoegizio.it: prezzi (Italian)
Tales of Museums is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Museo Egizio. Translations, narration and the extra facts use AI and can contain mistakes, so for anything important, check the museum's official information and the linked sources. Please follow the museum's photography rules.