A baroque palace in the centre of Torino houses the oldest Egyptian museum in the world. Founded in 1824, it is considered the most important museum of Egyptian antiquities after Cairo. The extraordinary collection of statues, papyri, sarcophagi and every

Among the most important in the world for the richness of its heritage, the National Cinema Museum owes its uniqueness to the peculiarity of its exhibition layout. Housed in the Mole Antonelliana, Torino’s symbolic monument, the Museum spirals upwards on

Built for the Italian General Exhibition of 1884, the complex features reproductions of 15th century buildings and furnishings, which are typical of Piedmont and the Aosta Valley. A picturesque setting, with typical Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta buildings an

Born in 1995 thanks to the will of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, it has two bases: the Turin centre built ex-novo in a district which bears witness to the city’s industrial history and its changes – and Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene d’Alba, an eigh

The GAM was the first museum in Italy to promote a public collection of modern art. The nucleus of the collection dates back to 1863, when the Savoy endowed Torino with a civic museum. Articulated along a tour that winds through the four floors of the mus

The museum - located in Via S. Domenico 28 and in the crypt of the Most Holy Shroud Church – provides full information concerning research on the Shroud from the 16th century to date. Since 1898, many scientists have been trying to explore the ‘meaning’ o

A must-see for car enthusiasts, the Museum was set up in 1932, on the left bank of the Po River, based on the idea of two pioneers of Italian motoring, Cesare Goria Gatti and Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia. It was Roberto’s son Carlo who conceived the initia

It is structured in the manner of a house-museum, in a series of richly furnished rooms: furniture, carpets, tapestries, paintings and objects of Italian and French origin are arranged in such a way as to recreate the atmosphere of the 18th century. Reser

The upper floor of the Carignano Palace building has hosted the National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento since 1938. Completely recreated in 2011, today it is a modern space, capable of narrating the period of the ‘Risorgimento’, from the great revolut

In a fascinating hanging structure on the roof of the Lingotto in Turin, the first great Fiat factory, the Pinacoteca Agnelli permanently houses masterpieces from Giovanni and Marella Agnelli’s private collection which is open to the public. The “Scrigno