The Egyptian Museum , the world's first museum dedicated to the civilization of ancient Egypt in the city of Turin. History of the collection dates back to 1730- th year, when the Sardinian King Charles Emmanuel III, who fell into the hands of the altar of the temple of Isis plaque , sent to Egypt botanist Vitaliano Donati to search for Egyptian antiquities, like her.
In 1824, Champollion , working on the papyrus of Turin meeting , announced the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and Europe flooded egiptomanii .That same year, King Charles Felix , not skimping on costs , purchased for his museum collection Bernardino Drovetti , which represents the interests of Napoleon in Cairo for many years, bought Egyptian antiquities .
In the course of the XIX century museum collections enriched Egyptologist Ernesto Skyaparelli , but eventually became a museum collection yield on the completeness and relevance as a collection of the Louvre and the Berlin Egyptian Museum . The last significant added to the collection was a small temple in Nubia were taken from the construction of the Aswan High Dam period .
The Egyptian Museum - a popular place visited in Turin. Every year there is more than half a million tourists. On the eve of the Winter Olympics in Turin, the museum building was rebuilt , and in 2004 the government as an experiment has transferred control of the museum in the hands of a specialized private fund.
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