Matter. Form of time

Matter. Form of time is the new permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Museum, dedicated to exploring materials from ancient Egypt: from wood at pigments, from ceramics at stone. The exhibition covers an extraordinary period of time, from the’Predynastic Period (4000–3100 BC) up to that Byzantine (565–642 AD), and covers an area of 700 square metres spread over two floors, with approximately 6,000 artefacts selected from the museum's archives.

Curated by a team of nine Egyptologists, with the design contribution of Enrico Barbero e Piera Luisolo, the exhibition offers an innovative perspective on Nilotic civilisation, highlighting the value of materiality and the context of origin of objects.

The exhibition is divided into three thematic sections: woods and pigments, ceramics e stone. Each room combines findings, graphics e video to recount the manufacturing processes and the life of objects, from craft techniques their daily use. This new exhibition itinerary is the result of a decade of research e reflections, consolidating the role of the Egyptian Museum as a pioneering institution in the dialogue between archaeology, humanities e technology.