Museum Archeological National
The most important archaeological museum in Italy, hosted in a building with a complex and interesting architectural history. Born towards the end of the sixteenth century as a stable, in 1612 it was turned into a “Palace of the Studies”, venue of the University. In 1777 it was chosen as the seat of the “Real Bourbon Museum”, to host the rich archaeological, artistic and bibliographic collections and the cultural institutions related to it, like the Royal Bourbon Society and the School of Fine Arts. Garibaldi gave it the name of “National Museum” and, during the twentieth century, with the shift of the library to the Royal Palace and of the pinacotheca to Capodimonte, it was finally devoted to the Archaeological Museum. Many are the important collection here preserved, like the extraordinary Farnese collection with its archeological finds of the Vesuvian area coming from the Ercolanese Museum in Portici (among which are frescoes, sculptures, bronzes, ivories, bones, terracotta, glass windows, vases and mosaics)
Napoli , Napoli, Piazza Museo Nazionale, 19
+39 081 292823
http://marcheo.napolibeniculturali.it
archeona@arti.beniculturali.it