by Maximiliano Crocamo
An exhibition reuniting part of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg’s Egyptian collection with its city of origin opens on April 2, 2026, at the Scuderie del Castello di Miramare in Trieste. The exhibition runs until November 1, 2026, and marks the first time a significant portion of the collection has returned to Trieste since its transfer to Vienna in 1883.
Titled Una Sfinge l’attrae. Massimiliano d’Asburgo e le collezioni egizie tra Trieste e Vienna, the exhibition is organized by the Museo Storico e Parco del Castello di Miramare and co-organized by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is produced by MondoMostre and CoopCulture, in collaboration with the Comune di Trieste and PromoTurismoFVG, with scientific input from the Museo Egizio di Torino.
The exhibition is curated by Massimo Osanna, Director General of the Direzione Generale Musei; Christian Greco, Director of the Museo Egizio di Torino; Cäcilia Bischoff, an art historian at the Kunsthistorisches Museum; and Michaela Hüttner, curator of the Egyptian-Oriental Collection at the same institution.
More than one hundred artifacts are on display, drawn primarily from the Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where the holdings were transferred after Miramare entered the network of Austrian imperial residences administered from Vienna in 1891. Additional loans come from the Civico Museo d’Antichità J.J. Winckelmann in Trieste.
Tickets and visitor information are available at miramare.cultura.gov.it.
