Vatican Museums collaborate with Italian museums: 'Collections in Dialogue' project starts with Egyptian art

The Vatican Museums will collaborate with the most important museums inItaly as part of the Collections in Dialogue project, which aims to bring together different museums in our country and the Vatican Museums themselves. Inuaguring this project is the Egyptian Museum of Turin, which, from Dec. 4, 2018 to June 30, 2019, will loan the statue of Amenhotep II, which will be temporarily placed within the permanent collection of the Vatican’s Gregorian Egyptian Museum. The exhibition was presented by the director of the Vatican Museums, Barbara Jatta, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Christian Greco, and the curator of the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, Alessia Amenta.

“Every museum collection is a space for dialogue,” says Barbara Jatta. “This is why we decided to consecrate privileged places to highlight research through ’dialogue’ in all its meanings. In this first appointment is the Egyptian Gregorian Museum, and the statue of Amenhotep II is the symbol of a renewed but established policy of cultural openness.”

“For the Egyptian Museum, putting research and study at the basis of its institutional activity also means putting dialogue between museum institutions at the center,” says Christian Greco. “The dialogue and collaboration with the Vatican Museums was initiated more than four years ago, with the Vatican Coffin Project, as part of the research that the Museum conducts on the sarcophagi of the 3rd Intermediate Period, and witnessed then with the exhibition of the restored sarcophagus of Butehamon, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new exhibition in April 2015. The loan of the statue of Amenhotep II, one of the most important examples of New Kingdom royal statuary, is another step in the dialogue between our collections.”

“A masterpiece,” says Curator Alessia Amenta, “recounted in its deepest symbolic value to the general public of the Vatican Museums through an original display: the kneeling pharaoh in the act of offering to the gods celebrates the founding principle of Egyptian culture, namely the revenge of man’s transience through legitimized kingship.”

Vatican Museums collaborate with Italian museums: 'Collections in Dialogue' project starts with Egyptian art

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