Memory is our future: 200 years of the Museo Egizio

Uittreksel

"The Museo Egizio of Turin celebrates two hundred years since its foundation. This book, edited by director Christian Greco, is the official publication of the bicentenary and offers an unprecedented insight into everything that revolves around the Museo Egizio, not simply tracing the history of the Turin institution, its collections or its fortunes; through a multi-voiced structure every aspect of the Museo Egizio's life is presented within the broader context in which it exists. The pages alternate between contributions by curators of the Museo Egizio and professors, researchers and curators from national and international institutions, sometimes in dialogue with each other. The contributions thus become laboratories in which ideas, visions and proposals relating to a wide range of themes are compared: the role of the Museum in the development of Egyptology, and in turn the impact that the evolution of the discipline has had and still has today on its choices; the importance of integrating humanistic and scientific disciplines; the relations with other museum institutions, with scholars and with the public; the imagined Egypt of ‘Egyptomania’ and the real Egypt that claims a voice in telling its own story. The result is a volume that proves how future and memory are closely intertwined"-- Provided by publisher.