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musEUMs
“PALAZZO MADAMA”
CIVIC MUSEUM OF ANCIENT ART
It’s located in the center of Turin and, with its Roman
origins, it’s the oldest building in the city. The visit covers four floors where you can learn about the history of
the building (from the Middle Ages to the Baroque) as
well as about the collections of the of the Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Turin’s municipal museum of ancient
art, setted up in 1861 to bring together and house the
heritage of Piedmont. The Museum houses one of the
greatest collections of the applied arts in Italy.
Bus: 11, 12, 51, 55, 56, 61, 68, Star2
Tramway: 4, 13, 15, 18
EGYPTIAN MUSEM
The Egyptian Museum is housed in the historic Palace of the Academy of Sciences and it’s dedicated to
art and culture of ancient Egypt. It’s considered the
most important in the world after the Cairo Museum.
It was founded in 1824 when Carlo Felice of Savoy
acquired a large collection of artworks gathered by
Bernardino Drovetti, Piedmontese, Consul General
of France during the Napoleonic occupation in Egypt.
In the museum there are more than 30,000 pieces
(6,500 are on public display) covering the period from
the Paleolithic to the Coptic.
Bus: 55, 56, 72, Star 2
Tramway: 13, 15
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ITALIAN
RISORGIMENTO - PALAzzo CARIGNANO
The National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento is
the first, the biggest and the most important among
the museums in Italy dedicated to the Risorgimento,
the only one which can be considered “National” due
to its rich and great collections. It’s dedicated to the
historical period in which occurred the political unification of Italy, between the end of the eighteenth
century and the beginning of the First World War. It is
located in the historic Palazzo Carignano, one of the
best examples of Baroque architecture designed by
Guarino Guarini. It has recently been reorganized and
reopened in 2011 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of national unification.
Bus: 11, 12, 27,51, 51/, 55, 56, 57, Star1, Star2
Tramway: 13, 15
“MOLE ANTONELLIANA”
National Cinema Museum
The Mole Antonelliana, symbol of Turin, was designed
by the architect Alessandro Antonelli in 1863 and originally conceived as a synagogue. It was acquired in 1878
by the City of Turin to make a monument dedicated to
national unification. With its 167.5 meters, it was the
tallest masonry building in Europe. Since the year 2000
it houses the National Museum of Cinema, set up by
François Confino. The panoramic lift inside provides a
unique point of view on the city and the Alps.
Bus: 55, 56, 61, 68, Star 1
Tramway: 13, 15, 16, 18
Polo Reale, Turin Museums complex
All public museums (Armeria Reale, Biblioteca Reale,
Palazzo Reale, Galleria Sabauda, Museo di Antichità,
Giardini Reali, Palazzo Chiablese) led by Palazzo Reale,
in the city centre, are connected in a single system, defined Polo Reale (Royal Hub). In the Royal Palace you
can visit richly decorated rooms with frescoes, paintings
and furniture from the seventeenth to the nineteenth
century. The Royal Library contains 200,000 books,
as well as manuscripts, maps, engravings, prints and
photo albums. There are 13 Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, including the famous Self-portrait and the Codex
on the flight of birds. In the Royal Armory you can find
one of the richest collection of arms and armor in the
world. The New Galleria Sabauda has been moved to
the new wing of the Royal Palace in 2012, with the exhibition at the ground floor of a first group of artworks
from the ancient Savoy collections; you can admire
paintings by the greatest Italian painters: Defendente
and Gaudenzio Ferrari, Fra Angelico, Pollaiolo, Bronzino, Bellini, Van Eyck, Memling, Rembrandt, Veronese,
Tintoretto and Guercino. The Museum of Antiquities
is located in the greenhouses of the Royal Palace and
in the basement of the new wing. It includes archaeological objects from Savoy collections and antiquities
found in Piedmont during archaeological excavations.
Bus: 11, 12, 51, 55, 56, 61, 68, Star 2
Tramway: 4, 13, 15, 18
MAO - MUSEUM OF ORIENTAL ART
It’s one of the newest museums in Turin. It’s located
in the historic Palazzo Mazzonis and houses the Eastern section of the municipal Museum of Ancient Art,
opened in 2008 with the display project of the architect
Andrea Bruno. The MAO aims to collect, preserve and
present to the public important artworks of the Asian
societies (Gandhara, India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Himalayas, Islam).
Bus: 11, 52, 55, 56, Star 2
Tramway: 4, 13, 15
MUSEUM OF THE RESISTANCE
“Widespread” Museum of the Resistance, deportation, war, human rights and freedom opened in 2003
in the 18th century building of Military Districts, recently restored. In the permanent section the visitor
can relive, through various documents and videos,
the history of the city from the racial laws in 1938
to the Constitution of the Republic. The temporary
section is dedicated to exhibitions and conferences
about the wars and the respect of human rights.
Metro 1: XVIII Dicembre/Porta Susa stop
Bus: 1, 52, 56, 67, Star 2 - Tramway: 4
PIETRO MICCA MUSEUM
AND THE Siege of Turin in 1706
The Pietro Micca Museum was founded in 1961 on
the occasion of celebrations for national unification.
It exhibits eighteenth-century weapons, maps and
paintings of battles related to French siege of Turin
in 1706. The most striking part of the tour takes you
through the tunnels dug by the Piedmont’s army
around the citadel and to the point where took place
the heroic sacrifice of Pietro Micca.
Metro 1: XVIII Dicembre/Porta Susa stop
Bus: 11, 12, 51, 55, 56, 61, 68, Star 2
Tramway: 4,13,15,18
GAM - CIVIC GALLERY OF MODERN
AND CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The GAM hosts the nineteenth and twentieth centuries municipal collections of art. Turin was the first city
in Italy to promote a public collection of modern art,
setted up from 1895 to 1942 in a pavilion in Corso Galileo Ferraris destroyed during the Second World War. In
the same place was built the current building designed
by Carlo Bassi and Goffredo Boschetti and inaugurated
in 1959. In 2009 the collection has been reorganized
into four thematic sections that change over time. Today its collections consist in over 45,000 works including paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs
(Antonio Canova, Giacomo Balla, Paul Klee, Amedeo
Modigliani, Giovanni Fattori, Joseph Pellizza Volpedo,
Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Giorgio De Chirico, Lucio Fontana), besides a rich collection of drawings and
engravings and one of the most important European
collections of art films and videos.
Metro 1: Vinzaglio and Re Umberto stop
Bus: 5/, 14, 14/, 33, 33/, 52, 64, 68
Tramway: 9, 15
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
The Turin Museum of Natural History was established
in 1978 to house the natural history collections of the
University of Turin and other collections of natural history, originated from specific research campaigns and
donations. It is located in the city center, in a 17thcentury building which used to be the hospital of San
Giovanni Battista. The museum has departments of
zoology, entomology, botany, minerals, geology and
paleontology. The entomological section, known
throughout the world, has a great scientific importance due to the presence of about 15,000 species
of insects.
Bus: Star 1, Star 2, 61, 68
Tramway: 18
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MOUNTAINS
“DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI”
The National Museum of the Mountain is located next
to the church and monastery on “Monte dei Cappuccini”, in a panoramic position from which you can admire
the Alps and the city. The idea of creating a museum
arose in 1874 among the first members of the Italian
Alpine Club. It has been restored and reorganized in
2005 to make it a cultural link uniting, under all the different aspects, the world’s mountain ranges: today it’s
divided into three floors and a basement where there
are temporary exhibitions, plus a new roof terrace.
Bus: 55, 56, 61
Tramway: 13, 15
VALENTINO PARK AND THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE
The Medieval Castle at the Valentino is an open-air
museum situated along the Po river. The complex
was built in 1884 to host the Ancient Art section of
the Turin Expo. The buildings and the decorations are
faithful copies of 15th century castles and offer an artistic and evocative example of the gothic style which
in Piedmont. Since 1996 in the green spaces of the
village was recreated a medieval garden.
Bus: 34, 42, 45, 67
Tramway: 9, 16, 18
NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM
The National Automobile Museum was founded in
1932 and presents a very interesting collection, nearly 200 original cars, from the mid-800 to the present
day, created by over eighty different brands from Italy, France, Britain, Germany , Holland, Spain, Poland
and the United States. The Museum has recently reopened after a radical transformation of the building
and of the collections display, rearranged by Francois
Confino. Alongside the museum exhibition there’s the
large square where events can take place.
Metro 1: Lingotto stop
Bus: 1, 34, 35, 42
Tramway: 18
MUSEUM OF CRIMINAL ANTHROPOLOGY
“CESARE LOMBROSO” AND UNIVERSITY
MUSEUMS
The Museum of Criminal Anthropology was founded by
Cesare Lombroso in 1876 and since 2009 it’s housed
in the University of anatomical studies. You can find
anatomical specimens, drawings, photographs, bodies
of evidence and objects made by prisoners: all these
things made ​​
up the private collection of Lombroso,
who founded the criminal anthropology based on physiognomy, now completely outdated. It’s part of the museum network of the University of Turin, together with
the Museum of Human Anatomy “Luigi Rolando”, the
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, the Museum of zoology and comparative anatomy, the Museum
of Geology and Paleontology, the Museum of Mineralogy and the Botanical Garden.
Bus: 67
Tramway: 9, 16, 18