Museum of Antiquity (Torino)

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The Museum of Antiquity () is an archaeological museum in Turin, Piedmont region, northern Italy, part of the Royal Museums of Turin.

History
The museum starts from the collections of the Savoy dynasty, expanded over the centuries thanks to archaeological campaigns and private collections.

In 1572 Duke Emmanuel Philibert had his collection of antiques at the Duke's Theatre.

In 1608, his successor, Karl Emmanuel I, expanded it with artifacts from Piedmont and the Savoy Duke. He carried the most valuable of them to the newly built Art Gallery, between the Royal Palace and Palazzo Madama, which however burned in a fire in 1658. The rescued objects were transferred to a new gallery built by Karl Emmanuel II, which was also destroyed by a fire in 1811. From this collection remains only a general inventory of 1631.

Victor Amaday II ordered the rearranging of the other items and in 1723 commissioned the historian Scipione Maffei to arrange the tombstones of the Comforter's Bastion, broken down the previous year. They, together with the collections donated by the King, the new acquisitions of private collections and archaeological excavations find a place in the courtyard of the University of Turin. During the Napoleon invasion, the objects were taken by the French, who returned only part of them in the fall of the Empire in 1815.

In 1832, the objects were exhibited in the building of the Academy of Sciences, where from 1824 the collection of Egyptian finds of Bernardino Drati was also located. This is how the Royal Museum of Antiquity and Egypt was created, including new ancient Greek and Roman exhibits, a collection of artifacts from Magna Grezia, reassigned by Luigi Moskini, and excavation finds in Piedmont of that time. In the mid-19th century the museum collection was expanded by purchasing Etruscan and Cypriot artifacts.

In 1940 the two collections separated and the Museum of Antiquity was born. In 1948, the most valuable items were exhibited permanently on the ground floor of the Academy of Sciences.

In 1989 the objects were moved to the greenhouses of the Royal Gardens of Turin, where they were housed in 2020.

In 1998 under the New Wing of the Royal Palace was built a pavilion on a project by architects Gabetti and Isola, which houses finds from the Piedmont region. In May 2013, the archaeological finds from Turin and surroundings were located in a third section under the New Sleeve of the Royal Palace, directly related to the remains of the Roman Theatre of Augusta Taurinorum.

Collection
The Museum of Antiquity consists of 3 sections:

Pavilion of the collections (Padiglione delle Collezioni)

Greek and Roman sculptures (reels, statues, portraits, bronze figures)
Roman mosaic of Orpheus (3 century AD), opened in 18th century in Kaleari
Moscini Collection
A series of Roman portraits including armored statues found in Suza
Preistor