Exhibits and Events
Events
The tomb of Nefertari. Encountering the queen – Tarek Tawfik
On the occasion of the inauguration of the new hall of the Museo Egizio for the burial items of Queen Nefertari's tomb, discovered 120 years ago, we invite you to join us on August 9, 2024, at 6:00 PM for a special lecture by Tarek Tawfik (Cairo University).
Queen Nefertari must have been an exceptional woman. During the reign of king Seti I she gets married to prince Ramesses and then manages to remain the "chief royal wife" of Ramesses the Great until her death. Cuneiform letters disclose her role in foreign diplomacy with the Hittites and her prominent appearance in the large temple adjacent to the huge temple of Ramsses II at Abu Simbel highlight her involvement in showing political supremacy towards the southern borders of Egypt. Details in her extraordinarily beautifully decorated tomb (QV66) allow a close encounter with this queen who captivated the heart of Ramesses II. Let us dive into the world of Nefertari to better understand the architecture of her tomb and the religious scenes reviling a lot about the art and lifestyle during the life of one of the most famous royal wives of the New Kingdom. It must have been challenging for the artisans of Nefertari's time to produce this amazingly decorated tomb but it is also challenging for us today to preserve it for future generations to admire.
Lecture available via streaming on the Egyptian Museum's Facebook and YouTube channels, live and recorded.
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Learn How to Grow an Ancient Egyptian Garden
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Museo Egizio’s Egyptian garden, all from the comfort of your own home!
The garden opened at the museum in June, and we are eager to tell you more about the significance of gardens in ancient Egypt and the science that went into creating this garden from the Museo Egizio team who brought it to life.
Featured speakers include:
Johannes Auenmüller
Curator
Johannes Auenmüller is curator at Museo Egizio since January 2020. He holds a PhD in Egyptology from Freie Universität Berlin. Johannes did research on bronze casting technology and on the social fabric of New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia, taught at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Bonn, Münster and Munich, and participated in archaeological excavations in Austria, Egypt and the Sudan.
His main areas of interest include the sociology and regional prosopography of pharaonic Egypt, technology of metal production and casting, as well as rock inscriptions and graffiti in ancient Nubia. Recently, his interests have been widened due to his engagement in curating the Egyptian garden in the courtyard of the Museo Egizio
Divina Centore
Egyptologist
Divina Centore obtained her MA degree from the University of Pisa, with a thesis on the importance of archaeological contexts and their reassemblage. At the Museo Egizio, she is currently working in the Communication Office. She manages the website and the scientific contents produced by this office. She is part of the editorial team of the Rivista del Museo Egizio and she is the contact person for the activities organised at the museum by the ACME Association. Her study interests focus on pottery, late Middle Kingdom, Second Intermediate Period and the flora of Ancient Egypt.
Cédric Gobeil
Curator, AFME Liaison
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)
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Nefertari: Queen of the Nile
Queens of Egypt tells the story of the wives of the pharaohs under the New Kingdom (1500 - 1070 BC).
In this period queens such as Ahmose Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiye, Nefertiti and Nefertari were influential women and much more than the wives of rulers. They also administered the pharaoh’s palace and exercised significant political power.
The exhibition brings to life the riches offered to the royal women, it reveals the intrigues they were involved in and recounts the honors paid to them.
Its highlight is the series of works that come from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, one of the greatest pictorial expressions of Ancient Egypt.
The Anastylosis of an Ancient Monument: Evaluating the modern Reconstruction of The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak – Jean Revez
On Tuesday 26th October 2021, at 12pm (UTC-04:00), in collaboration with ACME (Amici e Collaboratori del Museo Egizio) we will host the online lecture The Anastylosis of an Ancient Monument: Evaluating the modern Reconstruction of The Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, (Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project, 2017-2021) held by Jean Revez.
Since 2011, the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) – University of Memphis joint epigraphic mission at Karnak has been studying the decoration carved on the 134 columns that originally stood inside the Hypostyle Hall of the temple of Amen-Ra at Karnak. Since the beginning of our project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and other agencies, we have been able to gain a much better understanding of the decoration layout and chronology with the help of emerging techniques.
One of the greatest challenges in studying the Hall is taking into consideration the fact that a certain number of columns now standing inside the monument are no longer in their original position, since some mistakes in their reconstruction were made in the early 20th century, when Georges Legrain, the former director at Karnak courageously took on the daunting task of re-erecting most of the fallen columns that had collapsed in 1899 and at earlier times. Another great challenge is putting back together the loose drums and abaci that lay outside of the monument. These blocks, sometimes in fragmentary state, are stored in various areas inside the precinct of Amun-Ra. The main objective of the conference is to present our project, with a focus on the principal results of the ongoing anastylosis study of the columns, carried out during the past three fieldwork seasons (2017-2019).
Jean Revez is professor at the History Department of the University of Quebec in Montréal (UQÀM). He has a B.A. in liberal arts and pursued graduate studies in Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He has worked extensively in Egypt, most notably at Karnak, where he joined the permanent French mission of the CNRS, as well as excavation teams from the University of Toronto. He is currently the co-director of the joint UQÀM-University of Memphis epigraphic mission at Karnak. Professor Revez's research interests cover kingship and royal ideology, Nubian’s cultural inheritance of Egyptian Civilization, as well as new approaches to computerized methods of epigraphic survey of Egyptian monuments.
The event will be held in English and will be introduced by Cédric Gobeil, Curator at the Museo Egizio.
Here the link to watch the event on YouTube.
Nefertari: Queen of the Nile
Queens of Egypt tells the story of the wives of the pharaohs under the New Kingdom (1500 - 1070 BC).
In this period queens such as Ahmose Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiye, Nefertiti and Nefertari were influential women and much more than the wives of rulers. They also administered the pharaoh’s palace and exercised significant political power.
The exhibition brings to life the riches offered to the royal women, it reveals the intrigues they were involved in and recounts the honors paid to them.
Its highlight is the series of works that come from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, one of the greatest pictorial expressions of Ancient Egypt.
The Museo Egizio’s current research at Deir El-Medina – Cédric Gobeil
On Thursday June 17th at 12pm (UTC-04:00) the Museo Egizio will host the online conference "The Museo Egizio’s current research at Deir El-Medina", held by the museum's curator Cédric Gobeil.
Within the framework of the French Archaeological mission at Deir El-Medina carried by the IFAO, the Museo Egizio of Turin is conducting research on a few Ramesside tombs located in the Western necropolis. These tombs have been chosen based on the many artifacts that belonged to the owners of these tombs and are now kept in the museum. In addition to giving the opportunity to perform a study on these fragile structures using new technologies, this fieldwork is a unique chance to recontextualize many objects of the museum’s collection by shedding a new and fresh light on them. During this talk, viewers will have the chance to get a first glimpse at this work in progress.
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, 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).
The event will be held in English and it will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Here the link to the live streaming on YouTube.
From the Museum back to the tomb – Lecture held by Rita Lucarelli
On Tuesday June 8th at 12 pm (UTC-04:00) the Museo Egizio, in collaboration with ACME (Associazione Amici e collaboratori del Museo Egizio), will host the online conference "From the Museum back to the tomb: the virtual rejoining of a sarcophagus and its burial in 26th Dynasty Saqqara", held by professor Rita Lucarelli.
The Late Period inner sarcophagus of “chief physician” and “overseer of the Temehu (Libyan mercenaries)” Psamtek, found in 1900 in Psamtek’s tomb south of the Unas pyramid at Saqqara, is now on public display in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley, California (PAHMA 5-522). Like many museum objects, its modern display cannot adequately replicate aspects of its original archaeological context — in a deep rock-cut shaft, nestled among hundreds of impressive elite tombs at the necropolis. In order to virtually re-place the sarcophagus in its original context, a joint team from the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz, is developing a dynamic VR-headset experience that combines a 3D reconstruction model of Saqqara with a photogrammetric model of the sarcophagus. In this presentation, I will provide a demo of the VR headset application (under development), present the “Book of the Dead in 3D project”, aiming at building a database of annotated 3D coffins as the one of Psamtek, and describe the technological and intellectual challenges of combining multiple types of data in the application.
Rita Lucarelli is currently an Associate Professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley and Associate Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley and Fellow of the Digital Humanities in Berkeley. She is presently working at a project aiming at realizing 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins (http://3dcoffins.berkeley.edu/) and is completing a monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt. She is also one the coordinators of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: http://www.demonthings.com and a Faculty Member of the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology graduate program of UC Berkeley.
The event will be held in English and will be introduced by Christian Greco, Director of the Museo Egizio.
It will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Here the link to watch the event on YouTube.
Nubian studies – Vincent Rondot
On Tuesday May 25th at 12pm (UTC-04:00) the Museo Egizio, in collaboration with ACME (Associazione Amici e collaboratori del Museo Egizio), will host the online conference "Nubian studies", held by Vincent Rondot.
The topic of the organization of the cult of Amun in the Island of Meroë, heart of the Meroitic Empire, is still a very open one. There are many reasons for this: the ruined condition of its monuments, including the Great Temple of Amun attached to the capital city; the relatively good preservation of the two sites of Naga and Mussawarat es Sufra, wherefore they tend to catalyze our perception of the issue; and the large number of sites potentially including an Amun temple among their royal monuments that are still unknown or poorly documented.
Since it was started in the year 2000, the El-Hassa Mission has sought to shed further light on this topic. Twenty years later, it can present a range of new data offering many insights (archaeological, architectural, epigraphical, iconographical and historical) into the politics and evolution of the cult of Amun in the region.
Vincent Rondot is the Director of the Egyptian Department at the Louvre Museum since 2014 and a researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) since 1997. He has also been a member of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale in Cairo (1988-1992) and from 2004 to 2009 he has been director of French archaeological Unit in Khartoum. At the Louvre he has been in charge of the reorganization of the Egyptian Department's collection (1993-1997). Epigraphist and archaeologist, his researches concentrate on the cults to god Amun, both in Sudan and Egypt, and on the cults to crocodile god Sobek in the Fayum, at Graeco-Roman times. The question of divine iconography and of the impact of hellenism during the last centuries of paganism, both in Sudan and Egypt, is one of his latest interests.
The event will be held in English and will be introduced by Christian Greco, Director of the Museo Egizio.
It will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Here the link to watch the event on YouTube.
Nefertari: Queen of the Nile
Queens of Egypt tells the story of the wives of the pharaohs under the New Kingdom (1500 - 1070 BC).
In this period queens such as Ahmose Nefertari, Hatshepsut, Tiye, Nefertiti and Nefertari were influential women and much more than the wives of rulers. They also administered the pharaoh’s palace and exercised significant political power.
The exhibition brings to life the riches offered to the royal women, it reveals the intrigues they were involved in and recounts the honors paid to them.
Its highlight is the series of works that come from the tomb of Queen Nefertari, one of the greatest pictorial expressions of Ancient Egypt.
A New Look at Old Bronzes: Some technological observations on bronze votive coffins for animal mummies – Johannes Auenmüller
On Tuesday May 18th the Museo Egizio will host the online conference "A New Look at Old Bronzes: Some technological observations on bronze votive coffins for animal mummies", held by the museum's curator Johannes Auenmüller.
Currently, an interdisciplinary project is running at the Museo Egizio that aims at studying all animal mummies and related objects in the care or the Turin museum to the fullest extent. In this context, also the bronze objects related with the animal mummy phenomenon came to the fore. In today’s presentation, the author will first provide an overview of the range of bronzes used as so-called ‘votive coffins’ for animal mummy remains based on the collection of the Museo Egizio. Secondly, a number of technological observations will be presented that shed light on the sophisticated manufacturing technique of these hollow-cast objects. In this regard, an ‘eel votive coffin’ that shows remarkable secondary repair work will be discussed in more detail and in view of other similar cases.
Johannes Auenmüller is curator at the Muse Egizio since January 2020. He holds a PhD in Egyptology from Free University Berlin. Johannes undertook research on bronze casting technology at Bonn University and about the social fabric of New Kingdom Nubia at LMU Munich. In addition, he held classes at the universities of Berlin, Leipzig, Bonn and Munich as well as in Münster, where he was research assistant before his engagement in Turin. He participated in archaeological excavations in Austria, Egypt (Dahshur and Elephantine) and the Sudan (Amara West). His main areas of interest include the sociology and regional prosopography of Pharaonic Egypt, the technology of metal production and bronze casting, and settlement archaeology and rock inscriptions in Nubia.
The event will be held in English and will be introduced by the curator Federico Poole.
It will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel.
Discovering Ancient Egypt with Museo Egizio - AFME Official Launch
We invite you to join Christian Greco, Director of Museo Egizio, as he leads us on a virtual tour to experience one of the Museum's most notable landmarks, the Tomb of Kha. Through extraordinary artifacts, we will learn about how ancient Egyptians lived, worked, and planned for the afterlife, and, for the first time, we will witness treasures unveiled to human eyes thanks to new technologies and the application of science to the study of these findings.
This event, organized by the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC and the Italian Cultural Institute, will be opened with remarks by the Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Armando Varricchio.
The program launches the American Friends of the Museo Egizio, which invites people in the United States to support Museo Egizio’s programs and become a partner in shaping global understanding of our shared past.
WHERE: Zoom Webinar
WHEN: April 29, 2021 - 12 noon (ET)
EVENT LANGUAGE: English
REGISTER HERE: Zoom