Christian Greco

Director Museo Egizio, Turin

Christian Greco is the Director of Museo Egizio since 2014. He is responsible for the projects of renovation and reorganization of the exhibition path of 2014-2015 and 2023-2025. He supervises the legal and financial aspects of the Museum and all the scientific activities. As Director, he promoted several temporary and travelling exhibitions, the organisation of conferences and workshops, projects of social inclusion, as well as national and international collaborations with museums, universities and research institutes.

Born in Italy, he obtained an MA in Classical Literature from Pavia University (Italy), another in Egyptology from Leiden University (The Nethelands) and a PhD from Pisa University (Italy). Before taking up the position of Director of Museo Egizio, he was curator of the Egyptian section of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden of Leiden (The Netherlands) and member of the Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in Luxor (Egypt). Since 2011 he is Co-director of the joint Dutch-Italian mission to Saqqara (Egypt).

He serves as a member of the scientific committees of several national and international museums and research institutions, among which the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Napoli (MANN) and the Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali (Italy). He is a member of the Accademia Olimpica di Vicenza and Advisor for the Ministry of the Antiquities and Tourism for the Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Egypt). Between 2019 and 2022 he led the consortium made of Museo Egizio (Italy), Musée du Louvre (France), British Museum (UK), Neues Museum (Germany), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden of Leiden (The Netherlands) for the EU-funded project ‘Transforming the Egyptian Museum of Cairo’.

He is the author of over 90 scientific publications and was keynote speaker in several national and international conferences. In parallel to his engagement as professor of Egyptology and Museum Studies in Italy and the Emirates, he delivers a significant amount of public lectures dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge. He received several prizes and awards, among which Best Director of an Italian Museum by Artribuen both in 2019 and 2022, Torinese dell’anno 2023 and Premio Ghislieri 2014. In 2021 he was invited speaker to the opening ceremony of the G20 of Culture in Roma. He is currently Honorary Consul of the Netherlands in Italy.

 

Contact: Secretary of the Director's Office, direzione@museoegizio.it

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