World's oldest museum for Egypt

OMA / David Gianotten and Andreas Karavanas have won the competition to renovate the world’s oldest museum for Ancient Egyptian culture, the Museo Egizio founded in 1824 and housed in Collegio dei Nobili in Turin, Italy. The winning project aims to put in place a 2024 vision for the Museo Egizio, transforming the museum into a destination for scholars and a rediscovered public place for all.

In collaboration with, local architects Andrea Tabocchini Architecture, T-Studio, and historical consultant Professor Andrea Longhi, the proposal seeks to open the cultural space to all by creating a covered courtyard and a series of connected urban rooms within the existing settlement.

Witnessing a lot of architectural modifications over the past two centuries, the Museo Egizio, historically the main civic space in Turin, had its public areas closed off to the rest of the city. Selected among competition entries by Kengo Kuma and Associates, Pininfarina Architecture, Carlo Ratti Associati, and Snøhetta, the OMA design recognized the importance of restoring the public aspect of the museum. Actually, OMA Project Architect Andreas Karavanas explains that they “have conceptualized the Piazza Egizia as a palimpsest that reveals the different layers of the museum’s history. This approach restores coherence to the architecture and lends the museum a lucid identity while ensuring that the institution’s new needs are fulfilled.”
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[lorenzosala]

Been in Turin in march, I'm curious to see this renovation, but I think the museum is already kinda new

[nni]

Amazing and unexpected to see an Indian speaking in English about a museum in Italy dedicated to Ancient Egypt. India has its own pluri-millenial civilisation, or civilisations, and is home to one of the main families of culture in the world today.