Autumn Trip to Turin / Italy

Herbstwochenende in Turin, Italien

Typische Straße in Turin — Typcial Street in Turin

Flug über die Alpen — Flight over the Alps

First of all we went for a stroll in the town center...

Turin has so many arcaded side walks - a city for each kind of weather

We were lucky and had beautiful autumn weather

The arcades often lead to a beautiful end which looks like a precious painting.

Excavations can be seen under the entrance hall

The beautiful staircase of Palazzo Madama

Next day we visited the Museo Egizio which was the main reason why we had come to Turin this time. Among egyptologists it is known as one of the biggest and most important Egyptian museums of the world. It had been renovated during the past few years and reopened in springtime 2015. I was travelling with a group of friends of our Munich Egyptian Museum, and we wanted to see the renewed museum of Turin.

The Museo Egizion - the Egyptian Museum of Turin

The Turin museum is also famous for the exhibits of the Tomb of Kha.

The Tomb of Kha was excavated by an Italian team in 1906 and was found completely undisturbed in Deir-el-Medine, so a lot of highly interesting objects are in the museum today. Kha was a master-builder during the New Kingdom, time of Pharao Amenhotep III. (Around 1350 B.C.)

The old photo below on the right side shows the same statue how it was found in the tomb during the excavations. It had the same flower chain on as today. (Around 3400 years old!)

One of the eye-catchers in the museum is a 'view' to the Nile between the exhibition objects.

An almost life-sized wooden statue of the Middle Kingdom (roughly 2000 B.C.). The Museo Egizion is also famous for its ancient wooden statues.

I can never pass without noticing elephants. These ones here are small figurines from the Ptolemaic Period (approx. 300 - 30 B.C.). Already then elephants have been tamed and trained for riding. As we are aware today, the methods of how to tame elephants are very cruel as the taming can only be done with violence in order to 'break their will'. Please never ever ride elephants on your trips to Asia or any other destination! It is no fun for elephants at all.

The creator of this elephant lamp obviously never saw an elephant in his life in person.

The dark mirror halls with very fine statues, most of them of the New Kingdom, attracks many visitors.

On Sunday, I met Maria, my friend and colleague in Italy, together with her family (or at least part of her family) which was a great joy, as we hadn't seen us since several years. Together we took a walk in the Parco del Valentino to the Medieval village.

The new family member Giovanni - a nice little guy

A beautiful sunset greeted me good-bye at the airport in Torino.

- October 2015 -