Turin museums offer a wide choice from the famous and well-known Egypt museum (second in the world as importance just after the one in Cairo), which is an obligatory stop, to the futuristic Cinema museum placed inside the Mole, to the Car museum, to the Armeria Reale (the Royal Armoury), passing through museums like the Puppet museum or the Mountain museum.

Not to miss is the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) (Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), the Pietro Micca museum, dedicated to the patriot who contributed in a decisive way in stopping the French siege in 1706, the Sindone museum (the Holy Shroud museum), the Decorative art museum and the Risorgimento museum.

The local authority allows to buy a yearly pass in order to get free unlimited entrances to more than 130 museums, monuments, fortresses, castles and royal residences. For information on tariffs and shops where you can buy the pass call the free-phone number 800.329.329 or log on to http://www.abbonamentomusei.it.

For those who love to read we can suggest some books dedicated to Turin museums:

• Egyptian art in the Egyptian Museum of Turin: paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ceramics, papyri (edited by Scamuzzi - price $22.98)
• The Automobile Museum, Turin, Italy : the car collection (edited by Museo dell'automobile Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia - price $29.95)
• Egyptian Museum of Turin: Egyptian Civilization - Daily Life (edited by Anna Maria Donadoni - price $86.00)