The paper aims at providing a historical presentation and a brief
description of the quite unknown manufacts kept in the Egyptian
collection of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia.
The materials, most of them gifts given by scholars, travellers and
scientists, in the fist mid of the 19th century, are a good evidence
both of the so-called “Egyptomania” and the beginning of the
interest in egyptologicals “studies” in Northern Italy. The reader will
find, after a historical introduction, a short overview of the materials
and a presentation of some ongoing projects for the valorization
and the fruition of the collection itself.