Egyptian museum reopens after 5 years
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HUGE black and gold sarcophaguses with kohl-rimmed eyes dwarf visitors at Turin’s palatial Egyptian museum, which is reopening to the public after a “pharaonic” five-year renovation.
What was it like to be an early 20th-century explorer, stumbling across the ancient tombs of pharaohs and dignitaries and unearthing the mummified bodies and treasures within?
Now visitors donning 3D glasses in the museum in northern Italy will be able to explore a reconstruction of the tomb of Queen Nefertari, Ramesses the Great’s favourite wife, as well as that of another tomb and a cult chapel.
The red-brick building in the heart of Turin’s historic center, built as a Jesuit school in the 17th century, has undergone a 50 million euro (US$53.7 million) makeover that has doubled its exhibition space to 12,000 square meters.
“The (refurbishment) works were really pharaonic. This renovation is not the end of the journey, but the beginning,” museum director Christian Greco said on Tuesday.
“The Egyptian museum will become a great international museum once again.”
It is among the top 10 museums in Italy in terms of visitors, with more than 500,000 in 2014.
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