American Friends
of Museo Egizio
Our mission
The American Friends of Museo Egizio (AFME) builds awareness and community support for the world’s oldest museum dedicated to ancient Egyptian culture.
From our dynamic, evolving museum in Italy, we offer an indispensable voice in global Egyptology to bring history alive for people today — bridging space and time to allow us all to find our place in humanity’s shared story.
The AFME is fiscally-sponsored in the U.S. by the Myriad USA, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that facilitates fully tax-deductible contributions to the Museo Egizio. Through AFME and Myriad USA, individuals, companies and associations can be part of the life of the Museo Egizio and support its ongoing exhibitions and projects.
Why the US
America and Italy have a long-standing friendship that animates the ongoing vibrant exchange between the two countries. In addition, the United States is home to enthusiastic supporters of history and culture – a spirit that similarly animates the Italian people.
As a continuation of this relationship and in celebration of our shared passions, the Museo Egizio has embarked upon new partnerships to bring our exhibitions, special projects and knowledge of Egyptology to U.S. institutions. As part of this growth, we are also actively building a community of American friends who will be able to share in these exchanges, build camaraderie with one another and support the contributions of Museo Egizio on both sides of the Atlantic.
The scientist and the humanist have to work together even more closely to try and unravel the complexity of the contemporary world.
— Christian Greco, Director of Museo Egizio
Who we are
Christian Greco
Christian Greco has been Director of the Museo Egizio since 2014. He managed the refurbishment of the museum building and the renovation of its galleries, the new museum opened in April 2015, whereby the Museo Egizio was transformed from an antiquities museum into an archaeological museum.
Trained mainly in the Netherlands, he is an Egyptologist with vast experience working in museums. He curated many exhibition and curatorial projects in the Netherlands (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Teylers Museum, Haarlem), Japan (Okinawa, Fukushima, Takasaki and Okayama museums), Finland (Vapriikki Museum, Tampere), Spain (La Caixa Foundation) and Scotland (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
While at the head of the Museo Egizio, he has set up important international collaborations with museums, universities, and research institutes all across the world. Since 2011 he has been co-director of the Italian-Dutch archeological mission at Saqqara.
Greco’s published record includes many scholarly essays and writings for the non-specialist public in several languages. He has also been a keynote speaker at a number of Egyptology and museology international conferences.
Cédric Gobeil
Cédric Gobeil is a Canadian and French Egyptologist born in Quebec City (Canada), specializing in archaeology of daily life and New Kingdom material culture, with a primary focus on Deir el-Medina, topics for which he is carrying annual fieldwork in Egypt and Sudan.
After having obtained his PhD in France (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne), he worked in Egypt for the Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire and in the United Kingdom for the Egypt Exploration Society, where he was introduced to fundraising, before being appointed curator at the Museo Egizio in Turin in 2019.
In addition to his curatorial duties, he is also adjunct professor in the History Department at the Université du Québec à Montréal and research associate at the HiSoMA Research Unit in Lyon (CNRS).