Egyptian Museum opens on Roof Garden a new permanent exhibit with two gardens

From May 1, 2024, the Egyptian Museum of Turin will open the Egyptian Gardens on the museum terrace to the public. Thanks to excavations, archaeobotanical research and pictorial evidence, it was possible to recreate an area dedicated to plants characteristic of an Egyptian kitchen garden and a funerary garden, representative of the interaction between life, death and rebirth in ancient Egypt. A new permanent exhibit entitled Egyptian Gardens: the Kitchen Garden and the Funeral Garden can therefore be visited on the museum’s Roof Garden.

One enters from the Hall of Life on the second floor, where mummies testifying to the different stages of life, from childhood to old age, are on display.

“These are two different gardens,” explains Egyptologist Cedric Gobeil, who, with Divina Centore, curated the project. “One is a funerary garden like the one found in Egypt in front of a tomb: a sign of rebirth linked to the cycle of nature, with plants with symbolic value like cornflowers. We reproduced the same structure with squares of about 35 centimeters, one next to the other, forming a kind of grid, in each of which there is a different plant.”

The second Egyptian garden, Gobeil adds, “is a vegetable garden modeled after those owned by the elite of Ancient Egypt, with fruits and vegetables. It is organized in grids with raised edges that served to better store water.” The garden, the first in Italy, will be accessible to visitors who have purchased the regular ticket to the Egyptian Museum.

Egyptian Museum opens on Roof Garden a new permanent exhibit with two gardens

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