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The project aims to share information about the Museo Egizio’s collections and its activities conducted together with the inmates of the Lorusso Cutugno prison. A group of objects was chosen and presented during a lecture to the inmates who are enrolled in carpentry workshop classes at IIS “Plana” and who participate in lessons at “Primo” Art School. A selection of objects was chosen by the teachers, and replicas of them were made by the inmates, using diverse materials. In 2018, a temporary exhibition was held at the Museo Egizio explaining the nature of the project and showcasing these objects consisting of replicas of some burial goods from to tomb of the architect Kha and his wife Merit (including Merit's funerary mask and Kha's Book of the Dead), several papyri from the 21st Dynasty, and a number of stelae.

The year 2021 saw the display of Liberi di Imparare 2 showcasing reproductions made of wall paintings from the tomb of Iti and Neferu, a reconstruction of the Chapel of Maia, Faiyum mummy portraits, the ostracon of the dancer, as well as several funerary papyri.

These handmade copies are employed in other Museo Egizio projects conducted outside the Museum as a part of community outreach including activities held at the children’s hospital Regina Margherita and in the "Culture Around the Corner" (La Cultura Dietro L’angolo) program.

Born in 2022 from an idea by the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, “La cultura dietro l’angolo” (“Culture Around the Corner”) is now a program promoted by the City of Turin and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, in collaboration with the Fondazione per la Cultura Torino.

The Museo Egizio has been part of the program since its very first edition.

The initiative aims to bring culture close to home, wherever one lives, creating new opportunities for connection, sharing, community, and participation—in neighborhood centers, libraries, and public spaces.

“La cultura dietro l'angolo” is organized around festive events—true moments of gathering and conviviality where the full calendar of activities is presented—and a regular weekly program held in each participating venue. Through this structure, city neighborhoods come alive with concerts, theater performances, artistic events, museum visits, reading promotion activities, and scientific and artistic outreach events, among many others.

Interculturalism

Since 2019, the Museo Egizio has been hosting an experimental workshop for teaching Italian L2 in its galleries. The initiative is part of Provaci ancora Sam, a project aimed at combatting educational exclusion, supported by the City of Turin and the Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo, and carried out by Diskolé APS at CPIA 1 Paulo FREIRE school. The students involved, coming from all over the world, attend a course at CPIA Torino 1. Some lessons from their curriculum are held directly inside the Museum’s galleries. During these sessions, students explore the collection while practicing Italian and creating new narratives inspired by their own personal experiences. These moments provide opportunities for coming together, intercultural exchange and alternative, decentralised learning.

In collaboration with the Turin based MIC Association (Mondi in Città ONLUS), the Museum aims to promote the integration of women who immigrated from Egypt and North Africa to the city. In 2016 and 2017, eleven women took part in a training course made up of ten lessons taking place at the museum, in order to explore themes related to the daily life in Ancient Egypt and to acquire the knowledge to be able to lead thematic guided tours. These women are often leading group visits at the Museum, during special events.

The Museo Egizio is part of an international network focused on museums and migrants, established in June 2019 when the partners met in Berlin. The partners involved include Multaka Berlin, Multaka Oxford, and other museums and institutions in Italy, Spain, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The main objective of Multaka (which means "meeting point" in Arabic) and its partner projects is to diversify museum structures by including the voices and participation of people with migratory backgrounds. By drawing from different perspectives and providing a safe space, Multaka is committed to fostering intercultural dialogue between the newcomer community and the local community, exploring history, art, and diverse cultural heritages. The Museo Egizio’s collaborative projects and involvement with associations that are part of the Multaka international network include Tante voci al Museo (Many voices at the Museum) and tour guides from the association Mondi in Città, from the project Il mio Museo (My Museum).

Multaka Mission Statement:

The Multaka international network encompasses a diverse range of projects in cultural and academic institutions, museums and heritage sites, that create ‘meeting points’ with our diverse communities. These vibrant collaborations enable intercultural dialogue through sharing knowledge, experiences and values. Together, we shift perspectives to address colonial narratives and create more equal and global representation of our contemporary society.

Multaka project partners and guests at the international conference held in Oxford in April 2024.

Cultural welfare

Since 2014, with the collaboration of Fondazione Forma, the Museum has organized laboratories addressed to children and teens, aged 5 to 17 years old, at the Regina Margherita children’s hospital. Since 2018, the laboratories program has become more regular, with many activities scheduled during the year. These labs are organized by two curators and a member of the Communication Office of the Museum. They take place both at the hospital library, an area accessible to the patients of different wards, and in the hospital rooms of people who are not able to move. Furthermore, the Museum has arranged some guided tours for those who could temporarily leave the hospital.

In collaboration with Casa UGI (Unione Genitori Italiani contro il tumore dei bambini / Italian Parents’ Union Against Childhood Cancer), together with a wide network of museums participating in the initiative, the Museo Egizio offers various workshops designed to introduce participants to the ancient Egyptian civilisation. The workshops take place at Casa UGI. The Museum also organises guided tours for the children staying at the Casa, for patients receiving treatment at the Regina Margherita Hospital, as well as for their families and hospital staff.

Taking inspiration from the power of the Egyptian goddess Taweret, who protected pregnant women, this project gives new parents the chance to dedicate time to themselves and their newborn babies (from 0 to 9 months) by visiting the Museo Egizio in quieter conditions. Together with the project’s partner Lavazza, the aim is to offer an opportunity for new parents to enjoy themselves and explore the collections. The Museo Egizio aims at creating a familiar and welcoming environment that encourages museum visits with even very young children, fostering moments of connection and shared experience among people going through a unique stage of life. The tours include discussing themes related to pregnancy and motherhood, providing opportunities for dialogue and socialising among participants.

Participatory museum

Giovani Visioni al Museo is a participatory project aimed at young people aged 18 to 29, residing in Turin and the surrounding province, who are not engaged in education, training, or employment.

Giovani Visioni al Museo born from the collaboration between the Museo Egizio and Visionary Movement, aims to address the growing phenomenon defined by the acronym NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).

The first edition of the project, launched in 2022 thanks to support from the Department for Youth Policies and Universal Civil Service of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, allowed many young people to experience something new, to share a journey with others, to take a chance on their own abilities and interests, and to enter the museum as protagonists, leaving a mark of their presence.

Giovani Visioni al Museo is now in a new edition, aimed at celebrating the Museum’s Bicentenary (1824–2024), thanks to funding from the National Programme PN METRO PLUS and Medium-Sized Cities South 2021–2027.

The project is organised into repeatable modules, each lasting 4 weeks. Every week includes 2 afternoon meetings of 3 hours each, for a total of 8 sessions and 24 hours of activities per module.

Each month, from April 2024 to December 2025, small groups of participants have the opportunity to explore the museum and select one of the objects on display to interpret and present through a non-scientific, personal lens. Participants can create a short audiovisual piece, which is made accessible to museum visitors via QR code.

The final output represents added value for the Museum, which will be able to preserve and showcase perspectives and reflections that are not necessarily scientific in nature, within a fully participatory framework.

The aim is to provide a valuable opportunity to guide participants’ educational and/or career choices based on their own passions and interests.

Two hundred years after its founding, the Museo Egizio remains committed to encouraging young people to view museums as inclusive spaces for individual and collective growth, and as places where dialogue can be sparked—between people, and between the past, present and future.

Museums are an integral part of a much broader fabric of local opportunities. For this reason, the project has, since its inception, involved the network of “Case del Quartiere”—community hubs that promote active citizenship—some of which host the sessions of Giovani Visioni al Museo, allowing many young people to experience these dynamic local spaces.

In its new edition, the project also involves Casa dell’Ambiente, a non-profit institution that carries out networking, project coordination, outreach, cultural promotion, research, design, training and consultancy in the fields of environmental protection, environmental education, and sustainable development.

Another project partner is Fondazione Time2, which promotes change toward a more open society—one that recognises the value of diversity and the centrality of each person, with or without disabilities. In addition to hosting some of the eight meetings, Time2 provides a focus on disability, supporting participants in creating audiovisual outputs with particular attention to accessibility.

At the end of the programme, to offer all participants further opportunities to reflect on the themes explored and their experience, free short courses on cultural project development are provided by Club Silencio.

The RE:START module is designed as a follow-up to the previous one run by Museo Egizio and Visionary Movement and aims to bring the target audience even closer to the world of cultural work. The proposed programme (2 weekly meetings for 4 weeks) seeks to transform the previous creative outputs into interpretive pathways, experiential projects, and/or alternative ways of accessing and enhancing museums—but not only.

These projects can also be developed to promote the discovery of the city and its historical, cultural and contemporary heritage. The outputs of this additional stage may include prototypes of guided tour formats and/or experiential projects that are replicable in various contexts.

To find out more about the project click HERE.

The Museo Egizio has developed a completely free educational initiative designed both to deepen understanding of ancient Nile Valley civilisation and to promote our local territory as a “decentralised classroom” rich in learning opportunities.

The Museo Egizio A/R project is grounded in the belief that cultural heritage plays both an identity-shaping and relational role. Making the Museum’s collections and content more accessible means investing in the ability of new generations to seek out new meanings, perspectives, and ideas through culture and heritage.

The aim of Museo Egizio A/R is to ensure that the experience at, and with the museum, is not perceived by young students as sporadic or incidental, but instead nurtures a sense of discovery and active engagement in the learning process.

The first edition of the project, supported by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), offered a three-part educational programme—complete with picking up the students and teachers from participating schools free of charge—aimed at Primary Schools in the metropolitan area of Turin.

The programme ran throughout the 2022/2023 school year (for Year 3 and 4 classes only) and the first semester of the 2023/2024 school year (for Year 4 and 5 classes), involving a total of 4,316 students.

In addition, all classes were invited to take part in a creative competition, with the goal of creating a small guide to the Museum written BY children FOR children. The submissions were reviewed and the 20 most engaging texts were selected.

To find out more about the project, click HERE: Museo Egizio Andata e Ritorno A/r

In the 2024/2025 school year, thanks to funding from the PN METRO PLUS E CITTA’ MEDIE SUD 2021–2027 National Programme, the project extended its reach to include both Primary and Lower Secondary Schools in Districts 6 and 7 of the City of Turin, and Upper Secondary Schools across the wider Metropolitan Area of Turin (excluding the city itself). The educational programme, made up of two stages—a live session with Egyptologists and a visit to the Museo Egizio—also included free pick-up directly from schools.

In the year of the Museo Egizio’s Bicentenary, 101 classes—around 2,194 students—were invited to explore the Museum’s collections and reinterpret their content creatively. With the valuable involvement of their teachers, who played an active role in the process, students gave shape to their own “Timeless Story”.

The perspective of students is as valuable as the artefacts the Museum preserves.
Through this project, the participating classes become true ambassadors of the Museum and its collection.

To find out more about the project, click HERE.

Events

The Museo Egizio participates in Disegniamo l'arte (Let’s draw art), a spring event organised by Abbonamento Musei to bring children closer to museums through drawing. Young participants have the opportunity to explore a wide range of artworks, collections and museum environments, letting their creativity and imagination guide them through live drawing. More than 190 museums in Piedmont, Lombardy and Valle d'Aosta take part in the event, offering unique experiences to discover cultural heritage in an engaging and interactive way.

The Museo Egizio takes part in the Giornata Nazionale delle Famiglie al Museo (National Family Day at the Museum): F@Mu. It is a nationwide event that promotes and facilitates encounters between families and the many museums throughout Italy. Launched in 2013, F@Mu has grown to involve around 1,200 museums and cultural institutions across Italy. Its goal is to foster dialogue between families and museums, allowing children and teens to become conscious and engaged visitors of cultural spaces.

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The Museo Egizio celebrates reading, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Library Service, with a special project: a travelling exhibition dedicated to papyri, in particular the Book of the Dead, the discovery of hieroglyphs and other forms of Egyptian writing.
At the center of the exhibition is a replica of the Book of the Dead of Taysnakht made on papyrus as part of "Free to Learn", a project born from the collaboration with the Casa Circondariale Lorusso-Cutugno of Turin. Parallel to the exhibition will be organized events and other activities for adults and children, for more information about it click here.

The network of Turin Civic Libraries has 18 locations and a travelling Bibliobus, with three locations at the Casa Circondariale "Lorusso-Cutugno" and the Istituto Penale per i Minorenni "Ferrante Aporti". In addition to the prestigious services and the digital library, monthly meetings, reading groups and other activities are included.

“Museums and migrants. Tools for encounters” is a Museo Egizio project in collaboration with ABCittà.

Consisting of three days of training, study and reciprocal listening among museum and cultural professionals and social workers from the city of Turin and other areas. Each day is divided into a morning of listening to practices and views, and an afternoon of workshops, in the Museum’s galleries, facilitated by ABCittà.

FIRST STAGE (04 June 2018) - THE NEEDS OF MIGRANTS. Museums have long been committed to affirming that, in addition to carrying out the essential practice of studying, valorising and preserving a collective heritage, they also feel the responsibility of being viewed and used as places of confrontation and dialogue. In particular, intercultural dialogue in the age of migration is perceived as an essential feature to which commitment and resources must be devoted, in order not to miss out on the interaction with a rapidly changing society.

On this day, the reality of migration is represented by those who play a role in first reception and those who follow the path of those who migrate and are looking for a future, or have managed to define their own social role.

A meeting for migrants' needs, where possible, in order to develop a form of co-planning that favours a more virtuous system, aimed at sharing reflections, resources and results.

The questions that form the background to this meeting are:
- What are the keywords that frame the current situation of migration in Turin?
- What is the most urgent matters?
- What are the 'beacons' to guide action in the near future, and what are the most vital resources to leverage?

SECOND STAGE (26 November 2018) - MUSEUMS AND MIGRANTS: COMPARISON PRACTICES How are Italian and European museums addressing the issue of migration, both in terms of public discourse and internal reflection? How much space do they give to the voices of those who experience migration issues first hand, and through which tools? What impacts, discourses or even questioning does this kind of listening and attention generate? How does curatorship allow itself to be transformed? What are the most effective projects in terms of education and communication? And then, how is the effectiveness of a project measured?

On this second day, the museums take the floor with the story of their vision or specific projects.
In the afternoon, a "case clinic" session encourages reflection on concrete case studies, refining planning skills, in discussion with the group and working on awareness of limits and possibilities.

The questions that form the background to this meeting are:
- How do European museums deal with the issue of migration?
- What tools do they choose to open up a dialogue with migrants?
- Do multicultural audiences influence museum choices?
- Which projects favour cultural accessibility the most?

THIRD STAGE (18 February 2019) - MUSEUMS AND CITIZENSHIP: DIALOGUE TOOLS During the third meeting, social citizenship is the protagonist of a discussion on the role of museums for social change and the fight against stereotypes: the round table involves civil society and the associations that represent it, capable of addressing a diverse public interested in better understanding the role and potential of museums.

What builds the dimension of social citizenship? Certainly the awareness of rights and duties, the ability to move in public spaces and services, the awareness of one's role within a complex social fabric. But perhaps also other elements that are being built day by day, and which must be considered with clarity. It is an orchestra in which many instruments play, and here we try to bring forth some of them: education, general care and health, journalism (and more generally of language), and justice.

The questions that form the background to this meeting are:
- How are museums, hospitals, schools, prisons, public offices and all other types of institutions in society interconnected?
- How can we increase moments of mutual listening?
- How can we build lasting relationships that strengthen social networks while safeguarding the specific nature of each one?

In 2018, the Museo Egizio started a collaboration with Balon Mundial, the Migrant Communities Cup, a project born in order to foster intercultural dialogue through sport. Up until now, the league has involved the communities of 30 different countries, all based in Turin, and 17 accomodation centres around the city. The collaboration arises from a series of projects involving migrant communities in the area, and aims at presenting the Museum not only as a conservation place of a common heritage, but also as an open space, to promote the integration and the dialogue among different cultures. On that note, from the 15th of June to the 15th of September 2018, the communities of the Balon Mundial league, will be able to visit the Museum with a reduced fare.

To learn more, info@balonmundial.it

In order to foster the intercultural dialogue, the Museo Egizio joined a project in collaboration with the Museo d’Arte Orientale, addressed to young people from the Egyptian community, which has a long history in the Turin area. The Egyptian School “Il Nilo”, in Turin, is involved in the project. Its students, aged 8 to 13 years old, were asked to elaborate on the information acquired during the visits at the two museums. The experience turned into a small publication and a video, made by older students who took part in a videomaking course.

From the 11th to the 14th of May 2017, in collaboration with the Amici Collaboratori del Museo Egizio Association, a series film screenings open to the public was presented at the Museo Egizio, which in those days turned into, not only a movie theatre, but also a meeting place, where to talk about Egypt and related issues. “Miramar, l’Egitto sullo schermo” offered new perspectives on modern Egypt, with its long history of films production, one of the oldest and most important in the Arab world.

Since 2020, the Museo Egizio has been involved in the Next-Land project, supported by the Intesa Sanpaolo Benefit Fund, the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and in collaboration with the Piedmont Region and Obiettivo Orientamento Piemonte. The activities in the Museum involve students from several secondary school classes, coming from areas outside of the city of Turin. The school groups participate in tours and workshops that showcase various aspects of the economy in ancient Egypt and help students understand the system of numbering and calculating with hieroglyphic symbols.

By adopting the perspective of ancient Egyptians, students are invited to calculate the wages of different categories of workers in the village of Deir el-Medina.

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