Green is once again the protagonist in the Museo Egizio: a new permanent exhibition entitled 'Egyptian Gardens: the Kitchen Garden and the Funerary Garden' can be visited on the Roof Garden.

Why is it so important to reorganize the room dedicated to Deir el-Medina?

The site is located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, and it has been perfectly preserved because no modern city has been built over it since its abandonment. Deir el-Medina was the home of a community of artisans responsible for excavating and decorating the royal tombs of the nearby Valleys of the Kings and Queens. The context is unique because it preserves the remains of an entire village, a votive area, and a necropolis with some of the most beautiful non-royal tombs in Egypt. The site is particularly important because it has provided the most significant information about daily life in ancient Egypt. It was excavated by Ernesto Schiaparelli and the Missione Archeologica Italiana between 1905 and 1909.

A new space opens today at the Museum: the textile gallery.

The Museo Egizio houses an important collection of textiles that covers a period of over 5000 years. It has a very unique array of pieces in terms of the variety and quality of materials. In this room there are more than 700 textiles on display dating to the Pharaonic period (3000 –322 BCE), for a total of 1 km of antique linen.

After consolidation and restoration works, the third floor of the Museum reopens, expanding the visitor route with a new permanent display: the Writing Gallery. An area covering one thousand square metres housing 248 artefacts provides a journey in 10 sections about the origin of ancient Egyptian writing, going back 4000 years.

Not only will hieroglyphs, along with the adventure that over the centuries led to their decipherment and the birth of Egyptology be the focus of the exhibition but also hieratic, Demotic and Coptic. Telling the story of ancient writing in its various forms and how it evolved, also means describing society, how the state functioned, as well as the role of the scribe, who was the keeper of memories of the ancient Egyptian civilisation and a holder of knowledge

On October the 26th 2023, the Museo Egizio officially launched the events that will celebrate the Museum’s 200th anniversary in 2024.

Many projects and developments are in the works, with the aim of making the Museo Egizio an increasingly accessible, transparent and more open place.

For some time now the Museo Egizio has been reflecting on the meaning of the museum as an institution and its role within contemporary society, through discussions with the directors of Europe's largest museums.

Now, such reflections will be expressed through new installations and major architectural interventions, the latter being designed by David Gianotten and Andreas Karavanas from the Rotterdam-based OMA studio, whose project is now entering its construction phase.

The Museo Egizio is launching its program of scientific lectures for the 2023/2024 season: a rich calendar of events featuring international researchers, museum curators, and directors from the world's most prestigious museum institutions taking turns.This is a valuable opportunity to discover ongoing research on the collection directly from those conducting it, to delve into discoveries, recent excavations, and the most important international archaeological studies, and to reflect on the present and future of museums with directors from around the world.

Rethinking the role of museums in the age of globalisation and digitalisation; this is the aim of “What is a Museum?”, a series of ten encounters, designed by Christian Greco. The series aims at reflecting on the future of museums and accompanying Museo Egizio on a pathway of physical transformation and innovation, in view of its bicentenary, which will be celebrated in the autumn of 2024.

An International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology, the seventh after Vienna 2006, Leipzig 2008, Strasbourg 2010, Heidelberg 2012, Barcelona 2014, and Paris 2018, will be held at the Museo Egizio in Turin from 3 to 10 September 2023. It will be organized by the Museo Egizio in collaboration with the Freie Universität Berlin and the Fondazione per le scienze religiose (Bologna).

The year 2022 marks the bicentennial of the decipherment of hieroglyphs and the Museo Egizio opens a new exhibition focusing on the writings and languages of the Egyptian civilisation.