Egyptian Museum of Turin

Egyptian Museum Turin tickets: book a time with the Torino+Piemonte Card

Since every ticket to the Museo Egizio is for a set time, you can arrive up to 15 minutes after yours, though never before it. From this page there are two ways in: the Torino+Piemonte Card, which includes the entry, or a guided tour with the entry built in.

With the card, you book a time on the museum’s ticket site, egizio.museitorino.it, choosing the ticket called CARD Entrance, at no extra charge, and at the entrance you show the booking with the card and an ID. There’s no separate lane for card holders.

The Egyptian Museum is one of the three entries the 24-hour card allows. The card is valid for one adult and one child under 12, and it also includes the Royal Palace, Palazzo Madama, the Cinema Museum in the Mole and, next door, Palazzo Carignano, with the full list on the Torino+Piemonte Card page.

The Turin Royal Pass, the city’s other pass, only gives a discount here. So if the Egyptian Museum is on your list, that settles which of the two to buy.

Guided tours of the Egyptian Museum in English or Italian

If you’d rather see it with a guide, our main tour takes two hours with a local guide, in English or Italian. In English it costs €69, the same for adults and for 14- to 17-year-olds; in Italian it’s €49 for adults, €29 for 14- to 17-year-olds and €10 for under-6s. Either way the ticket comes on your phone and can be cancelled up to 24 hours before your time.

The second tour, at €59 for anyone 15 or over, also lasts two hours and includes the entrance ticket, with radio headsets for groups of more than eight so everyone hears the guide. Its listing doesn’t name the language, so check it as you book. The longest option pairs the museum with a walking tour of Turin, three hours in all, in Italian, for €79.90.

Egyptian Museum opening hours, late Saturdays and November evenings

The museum opens every day of the week, though Monday is a short day that ends at 14:00. Saturday goes the other way and runs until 20:00, and the last entry is always an hour before closing.

The museum’s own advice is to come in the late afternoon, or on one of the evening openings when there are any. For now, tickets can be booked for dates up to 6 January 2027, and the Christmas and New Year hours haven’t been published yet.

Work on the museum’s new square is still going on, with the end now expected in November 2026 after several delays. Every room is open in the meantime, but the route winds more than it used to and the cloakroom is closed, so bring as little as you can. The shop and the Pausa Caffè are to the left of the entrance hall, and the shop doesn’t need a ticket.

How Turin got its Egyptian Museum: a king’s purchase and Schiaparelli’s digs

The museum was founded in 1824, when King Carlo Felice bought the collection of Bernardino Drovetti, and it opened to the public in 1832. Its home is the Collegio dei Nobili, a building by Michelangelo Garove begun in 1679, which it shares with the Academy of Sciences that gives the street its name.

Between 1903 and 1937, excavations led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, and after him by Giulio Farina, brought back about 30,000 objects. The statues of the Gallery of Kings were rearranged in 2006, and in 2015 the whole museum reopened with a new route. It had more than a million visitors in 2024.

Inside the Museo Egizio: Ramesses II, the Ellesiya temple and Kha’s tomb

The big statues stand together in the Gallery of Kings, where Ramesses II sits with Seti II, Thutmose III and the goddess Sekhmet. Beyond the main rooms, the Galleries of Material Culture put around 12,000 more objects on show.

Then there’s a whole temple. The Temple of Ellesiya was carved into the rock in Nubia and given to the museum by Egypt; its 66 blocks were put back together indoors, and it opened to visitors on 4 September 1970.

The tomb of Kha and Merit was intact when Schiaparelli’s team found it in 1906. Its room was rebuilt and reopened on 4 December 2025, so even if you’ve been before, this part is new.

The papyri have a gallery of their own, the Gallery of Writing, with the Turin King List and three versions of the Book of the Dead. Other rooms are given to the village of Deir el-Medina and to a gallery of coffins.

Visitors with disabilities and one companion go in free, booking their free ticket online like everyone else. For them the museum has a tactile route with 36 panels, more than 60 audio descriptions, an audio guide in Italian Sign Language and International Sign, and 20 objects you can touch, once you take your rings off.

Getting to the Egyptian Museum on Via Accademia delle Scienze

The museum is at Via Accademia delle Scienze 6. From Porta Nuova station, where metro line 1 stops, it’s a 10- to 15-minute walk along Via Lagrange; from Porta Susa it’s 20 to 25 minutes. Bus 58 runs from Porta Nuova to the Bertola stop and tram 4 passes too, while from Porta Susa you can take buses 51, 56, 57 or 72, or tram 13.

If you drive, the Roma-San Carlo-Castello car park is open 24 hours, and the ZTL, the centre’s restricted traffic zone, applies from Monday to Friday between 7:30 and 10:30. Next door to the museum, at number 5, is Palazzo Carignano, the palace where Italy’s first king was born.