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Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta
Museo Egizio
The newly refurbished Museo EgizioAddress: Via Accademia delle Scienze 6 Opening time: Tues– Sun 8.30am–7.30pmPrice: €7.50 
www.museoegizio.it holds a superb collection of Egyptian antiquities, begun under the aegis of Carlo Emanuele III in the mid-eighteenth century and added to over the ensuing centuries. With some thirty thousand artefacts, it's the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of Cairo.