The Ezio De Felice Foundation meets the Egyptian Museum of Turin on Saturday 20 January, at 17.30:9 pm, for the event Narrare il patrimonio museale, in the splendid setting of the Teatro di Palazzo Donn'Anna (Largo Donn'Anna, XNUMX in Naples).
Special guest: Director Christian Greco. With this initiative, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Egyptian Museum in 2024, the Ezio De Felice Foundation intends to contribute to the celebration of a significant milestone for the world of Italian museums. The meeting, the eleventh of the series, entitled “The Egyptian Museum of Turin and the challenges of the future.
Research, inclusion and digital transition”, will be introduced by Marina Colonna, President of the Ezio De Felice Foundation, while the conclusions will be entrusted to Nadia Barrella, professor of the Department of Letters and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and Gioconda Cafiero, professor of the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II. The Egyptian Museum is the oldest museum in the world dedicated entirely to Egyptian culture. Since its foundation, the Museum has been located in the building called “Collegio dei Nobili”, built to a design by Michelangelo Garove. The building was expanded and adapted to its new use in the second half of the 800th century. The Museum opened to the public as early as 1832.
In addition to Egyptian antiquities, there were also Roman, pre-Roman and prehistoric finds, together with a natural history section. Between 1903 and 1937, archaeological excavations conducted in Egypt by Ernesto Schiaparelli and then by Giulio Farina brought about 30.000 finds to Turin. The Museum had its first rearrangement of rooms in 1908 and a second, more important one in 1924, with the official visit of the King. Further renovations and adaptations took place in the 30s (with the installation of the Art Gallery) and at the end of the 80s (with the new arrangement of the Schiaparelli Wing). Particularly important was the work of recomposing the rock temple of Ellesiya donated by the Egyptian Government in recognition of Italian help in saving the Nubian temples.
Since the 80s, also due to an increase in visitors, it has been necessary to plan a new visit route that has determined new exhibition spaces. The bicentenary year will be marked by profound transformations both from an architectural point of view and with re-installations grafted onto the results provided by research, the central axis on which the projects are based. The museum is being renewed with a view to metaphorical and physical opening towards the city. The re-functionalization of the baroque palace will have the objective of giving new life to the courtyard transformed into a covered square: it will be freely accessible, deeply connected to the outside, to make it a welcoming space from which to start for various visit routes.
The new Egyptian Museum can be visited in different ways, depending on the time, interests and desires of each person. The exhibition Narrare il Patrimonio Museale, now in its second edition, is promoted by the Ezio De Felice Foundation and, this year too, benefits from the scientific collaboration of the Department of Letters and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples Federico II.
Experts, museum directors, cultural operators, teachers and historians take turns, in one meeting per month, in the narration of our Museum Heritage, addressing various issues relating to museums, installations, techniques, history, protection, communication, inclusion.
The second edition, which started in October 2023, will continue until May 2024: seven meetings to explore and delve into, once again, the many aspects of the world of Museography and Museology. Many names of protagonists have taken part in the meetings of Narrare il Patrimonio museale to date: Fabio Fabbrizzi, Marco Albini, Andrea Canziani, Paola Ascione, Filippo Bricolo, Paolo Giulierini, Andrea Milanese, Alexander Debono, Sylvain Bellenger, Liliana Uccello, Giovanni Minucci, Francesca D'Onofrio, Gianluca Bove, Saverio Isola, Stefano Peyretti, Santo Giunta, Fabrizia Paternò, Alberto Sifola, Riccardo Imperiali di Francavilla and Laura Giusti
Article published on 19 January 2024 - 12:30
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