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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