A group made up of Dutch agency Workplace for Metropolitan Structure (OMA) and Italian apply Andrea Tabocchini Structure has redesigned a gallery in Turin’s Egyptian Museum.
The brand new “Gallery of the Kings” will add info and historic context for statues recovered from the Karnak temple complicated within the historical metropolis of West Thebes on the center Nile.
The concept of the gallery is to guide guests from darkness to mild, symbolising the method of creation. So, they’ll enter via a darkish hallway the place digital projections depict the historical past of Karnak, the place the statues have been appropriated.
Additional on, two exhibition halls are brightly lit, and are designed to imitate a journey via an historical temple.
The primary comprises two sphinxes flanked by standing and seated statues of Sekhmet, the goddess of struggle, plague, medication and chaos. That is impressed by processional avenues and sunlit courtyards.
Earlier than coming into the second corridor, guests will move by a statue of pharaoh Seti II (1203-1197 BC), which was initially positioned in entrance of the king’s chapel at Karnak.
The later exhibition space is paying homage to the temple’s interior areas, and comprises Amenhotep II, who reigned within the thirteenth century BC. He’s depicted providing wine to different statues of pharaohs. One other group of pharoahs and gods is organized chronologically.
On the centre is a statue of Ramesses II (1303-1213 BC), and on the different finish are effigies of the Ptah, the creator god, and Amun, Lord of Heaven, represented as a ram.
David Gianotten, OMA’s managing associate, stated: “The chance to design the Gallery of the Kings compelled us to discover how the modern museum expertise and the historic context of artefacts can coexist via structure.”
Andrea Tabocchini added: “From the outset, all of us noticed this venture as a chance to revamp a novel exhibition area. Tradition should honour the previous whereas remaining alive, evolving, being related within the current and provoking the long run.”
In 2023, OMA received a design competitors to renovate the museum, including a courtyard and interconnected public areas. This is because of be accomplished subsequent yr.
