Right in the town centre, two museums bear witness to the prime role played over the centuries by Piedmont's capital city: the Galleria Sabauda, one of Italy's most important art galleries with a rich collection of paintings from the Flemish school, and the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Madama which reveals the city's two-thousand year history. Other important attractions include the Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti which has over three hundred paintings, and the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, in the purpose-designed 'Scrigno' building by Renzo Piano at the Lingotto.

The real surprise is the array of exhibitions and displays in the rest of the province, from the Pinacoteca Civica Levis in Chiomonte, particularly famous for its display of mountain landscapes, to the Fondazione Alfredo D'Andrade at Pavone Canavese, dedicated to this famed Portuguese architect. Apart from art, also Turin's ancient past is a tale worth reading, enjoying and exploring.
And what better places than the prestigious collections at the Museo di Antichità which exhibits articles from prehistory through to the medieval age, the Museo della Sindone dedicated to the celebrated Holy Shroud held in the Duomo, or the Royal Armoury? While not dedicated to the city, the Museo Egizio is rightly famous and considered Europe's most important. Then there are the museums revolving around history: the one for the Risorgimento and another relating the tale of the Resistance, and then the Borgo e la Rocca Medievale on medieval architecture.