After about a month of closure, they reopen to the public on May 1st Gardens of the Egyptian Museum of Turinwith a new layout that will allow you to enjoy the vegetable garden and funerary garden on the institution’s Roof Garden. “Excavations, archaeobotanical studies and pictorial evidence have allowed the reconstruction of an area dedicated to the typical crops of an Egyptian vegetable garden and a funerary garden, symbol of the interaction between life, death and rebirth in ancient Egypt”underline from the Museum.
The Gardens of the Egyptian Museum of Turin
This is a new permanent exhibition, entitled Egyptian gardens: the vegetable garden and the funerary garden, which is accessed through the Hall of Life on the first floor. A path that therefore connects internal and external works and artefacts with plants typical of the gardens of four thousand years ago. The funerary one, for example, is inspired by a garden discovered in Egypt in front of a tomb, characterized by the presence of cornflowers, flowers with particular symbolic value. “We reproduced the same structure with squares of about 35 centimetres, one next to the other, which form a sort of grid, in each of which there is a different plant,” he explains to Republic the Egyptologist Cedric Gobeilcurator of the project together with Divine Centor. The garden, on the other hand, is made up of fruit and vegetables, and is inspired by those owned by the elite of Ancient Egypt.
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Towards the bicentenary of the Egyptian Museum of Turin
Egyptian gardens: the vegetable garden and the funerary garden is part of the planning of events and initiatives that the Turin institution directed by Christian Greco has announced to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of its birth. Among the projects that will see the light, there is also the renovation of the Museum signed by the group led by David Gianotten of OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture (with Andrea Tabocchini Architecture and Guendalina Salimei of T-Studio among the Italian partners), which involves the creation of an “Egyptian Square”, a multifunctional courtyard conceived as a public space accessible even beyond the opening hours of the Museum.
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