Museums
Museo di Antichità (Torino)
Category: History and archaeology
The origins of the Museum of Antiquity go back to the 16th century with the collection of Duke Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, which was then incremented by Carlo Emanuele I. Thanks to renewed interest in topography in 1940, after years at the Academy of Sciences, the Museum of Antiquity separated from the Egypt Museum and did not find a definitive seat until 1982. Today, the museum is housed in three spaces which perfectly follow a museum tour: the first, dedicated to the historic collections (from Etruscan and Italic antiquity to ceramics from Magna Graecia) is housed in the former greenhouses of the Royal Palace; the second space is in the Nuovo Padiglione and illustrates an ideal trip back into time with a collection of precious archeological remains found in Piedmont; the third and last segment, is housed in the so-called Manica Nuova, recently designed, where stone objects, religious objects from necropoles , and mosaics - next to the remains of a Roman Theater - that tell the story of city life within the walls of Augusta Taurinorum.
Information
Via XX Settembre, 88/c - 10122 Torino
Tel. +39.011.5211106 - Fax: +39.011.5213145
E-mail: info@museoarcheologico.it
www.museoantichita.it
