Historical signs
The building that entertains the Museum today rose, in 1585 as " horsewoman " (school of horseback riding) to want of Don Pedro Giron, duke of Ossuna, viceroy of Naples from 1582 at 1586 o'clock, but it was left incomplete. In 1612 the viceroy Don Pedro Fernando de Castro entrusted the architect Giulio Caesar Fountain to plan the new center of the university exploiting the structures of the " horsewoman ". In 1777 the Building was destined to Real Museo from Ferdinando IV. At the end of the kingdom borbonico, the Museum in Naples becomes National, as he had entitled from Garibaldi, and it inherits from the kings Carlo, Ferdinando IV and Ferdinando II of Borbone you collect archaeological, artistic and bibliographical. The realization of a " Museum " Ferdinando's IV Borbonico, where they were picked up the collection Farnese and the material returned by the excavations of Pompeii and the other city vesuvianes, it is not able, besides, to have dissociated from the aboriginal project of a " Museum " " Farnesiano " that king Carlo thought about realizing in the capital city of his kingdom,
destining to it the new construction of the Real Villa of Capodimonte in 1738. Ferdinando IV, succeduto anchors child to his father Charles, past to the throne of Spain in 1759, it will continue, widening the realization of the fatherly project. Between the collections that Dared, manager of the Museum from 1807 at 1837 o'clock, had called to order you are go remembered, besides the harvest
Farnesiana, to the finds of the excavations in Pompeii, Ercolano etc. and to the nucleuses small joints to the Museum for acquisitions or donations, the collection of Carolina Murat and the collection Borgia. After the huge work of reorganization of the collections which the archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli was devoted, manager of the Museum between 1863 and 1875, will be necessary to attend the rearrangement taken care of by the archaeologist Paolo Orsi in 1901; other reorders had operated from the historian Ettore Pais from Vittorio Spinazzola and from Amedeo Maiuri.
During the second war world big part of the collections had submitted to tormented transfers, from the abbey of Montecassino to the Museums Vaticani, thin in Germany; a first official reopening of the Museum the first June of 1945 could be effected. With the fifties the Museum seemed to find again a new equilibrium: together to Amedeo Maiuri, author of rebirth, different archaeologists of fame collaborated.

Visit
I salt - Gallery of the Tirannicidis
The collection of ancient sculptures preserved in the Museum can be enumerated between the richest some world, either for quantity, either for importance of the masterpieces that makes part of it.
The first room is a point of departure forced that it testifies the extreme wealth of the collection he/she understands, in fact, between copies and original, numerous sculptures of the archaic period and the severe style. From ancient Campania the fragment of archaic metopa and the newspaper kiosk votivas originate with sat divinity. To the Greek-oriental area it is referable, instead, the known stele Borgia, a datable archaic funeral relief toward the 480 a.C. To another more famous and rich private collection, that Farnese, belongs the group of the Tirannicidis Armodio and Aristogitone, only replica of the work of the sculptors Athenian Kritioses and Nesiotes erected to Athens in the 477 a.C.
Others important replicas are the Afrodite Sosandra and the head of the Apollo of the omphalos, deriving from Bay.

Salts VI - II - Gallery of the Big Teachers
These rooms introduce some between the most famous work of the Greek sculpture, in Roman replicas. The classical age and, particularly the period of activity of Fidia and his students They are represented from: the head of Apollo, the statue of Demetra, two replicas of the Afrodite Parent and the famous Athena Farnese, whose original had devoted on the acropoli in Athens on the occasion of the pestilence of the 430 a.C. A monument of extraordinary beauty is the relief with Orfeo, Euridice and Hermes. Peculiar of the Museum in Naples, and only to the world, it is the complex of recoveries that originates from the cities of the area vesuviana, above all Pompeii and Ercolano. Between the exposed sculptures, over that the rich and meaningful complex of the Villa of the Pisonis, the Apollo from the House of the Citarista, the Efebo in bronze and the Doriforo of Policleto from the gym in Pompeii. The Nike, is deriving instead from Naples, the Nereidis cavalcanti pistrici and the Apollo in rest from Formia, the Diomede from Cuma, the colossal Dioscuro from Bay.

VII salts - Room of the Palestrita
Sculptures of the current Pasitelica that it was developed at the end of the republican age (The secs. a.C.): the group of Oreste and Elettra, the figurine of Artemide from Pompeii, image of Apollo from the House of the Menandro to Pompeii, the Pugilatore from Sorrento, the bronzy Efebo from street of the abundance to Pompeii.

VIII salts - the Flora's Gallery
Work of classicist taste: the Flora and the group of hero with little boy on the shoulders from the Thermal baths of Caracalla in Rome, the Paride from Capua, the Artemide from the collection Farnese and the other from Cales, varied interpretations of Afrodite of age ellenistica as the two busts of laughing satyr, the Esculapio and Igea.

IX-X climbs - Marbles pergameni and Venus
The hurted Galata, the horsewoman, the Giant and the Persiano died reproduce the single elements of the donario devoted in the 167-166 a.C. on the acropoli in Athens from the king of Pulpit, Attalo II, to celebrate victories on the Galatis. La  Sala of the Venus picks up the statues of Venus of the collection sculptor of the Museum: the note Venus Callipige and two Roman copies of the Afrodite crouched.

XI-XVI climbs - Gallery of the Taurus Farnese
The small Eracle epitrapezios and the colossal Ercole Farnese are splendid Roman copies of the work of Lisippo. To Prassitele and his/her school they belong: the Ganimede with the eagle, the Eros of Tespie, the satyr in rest, the Afrodite Cnidia, the bust of Sardanapalo. Work ellenistiche: Psyche of Capua, the Venus of Sinuessa, the Venus of Capua, the crater of Gaeta. You model prassitelici: the Dioniso and Eros, the Dioniso and the satyr, the group of Bread and Olimpo. The most original and famous work is the monumental group known as Taurus Farnese that it represents the torture of Dirce and it originates from the Thermal baths of Caracalla.

XXIX salts - Gallery of the colored marbles
The most known element of the room is the malice in alabaster of Artemide Efesia. The Apollo Musagete in porfido, the Apollo in basalt, Meleagro in red porfido.

XXIV-XXVIII climbs - decorative Sculptures
Marbles destined to I furnish him domestic, decorative reliefs, dedicate and sepulchral, sarcofagi figurati.Di great interest is the monumental one
sarcophagus ancient riutilizzato to depose you the bare of the count Roger of Altavilla.

XXX-XLIV climbs - Roman Sculpture
I/you/they have put the most famous honorary monuments devoted to the city benemeritis of Ercolano, bronzy statues of emperors, the most known is that of Tiberio sacrificante; the colossal bust of horse known as head Carafa; the head of Giulio Cesare, the busts of Urinal and Antonino Pio, the statue of Antinoo etc.

XLV salts - Gallery of the Greek portraits
Numerous ermes and busts of Roman age: Humerus's bust, Socrates's erma, Perseo and Alexander to horse from Ercolano.
Atrium Two statues of Give us imprisoned; the grandiose Lare; Alexander's Severo statue; Urania; Roman sarcofagi; the statue of Eumachia, priestess pompeiana; two equestrian monuments of M. Nonio Balbo; the colossal statues of the Nile and the ocean.
The Staircase
The grandiose staircase, to plant semicircolare, is dominated by the torso of Jupiter, deriving from the Capitolium of Cuma. E' I notice to Naples as Giant of the Building commonly since, when you/he/she was recovered, you/he/she was put on a column in the you press some Royal Building, where, integrated with parts in plaster, it supported the real coat of arms.

LVII-LXI climbs - The mosaics
The room LVII offers a review of the art musiva of a period that goes from the end of the II sec. a.C. to the The secs. AD and it picks up elements detached by floors of houses for the more pompeianes. It includes: thresholds (the dog to the chain, the head of Jellyfish); emblemata (of the real pictures to the center of the floor) and wall mosaics of taste ellenistico.

In the room LVIII has exposed, for the more, wall mosaics, for the decoration of ninfei, fountains, gardens, coverings of columns, performed with to plot of glassy pasta.

The room LIX exposes emblemata ellenistici either original that copies. They originate, some, from her "Cicero's Villa" to Pompeii
In the rooms LIX and LX have exposed two mosaics with sea fauna. In the room LX is a female portrait; the deriving mosaics from her "House of the Faun" and the same Faun; the famous mosaic of Alexander that represents the culminating moment of the battle between Alexander and Dario.

Western mezzanine
In the last rooms you/he/she is guarded the so-called Pornographic Harvest, been born in 1819 on solicitation of Francis I duke of Calabria that, in the to visit the Museum, observed that you/he/she would have been "well done thing to close all the obscene objects, of whatever subject they were, in a room, to which they had entry entirely the persons of mature age and of known moral". Between the most known work a sarcophagus in marble of the second half the II sec. AD and the sculptural group of Bread and the goat.
Oriental mezzanine
For now, waiting to different future setup, it is possible to admire I furnish him of the temple of Iside discovered in Pompeii in 1765.

CXIV-CXVII climbs - You Villa of the Papyruses
The sumptuous residence, still buried from around 20 ms. of it washes himself/herself and hardened mud, explored beginning from 1750 to Ercolano, almost certainly belonged to the consul Lucio Calpurnio Pisone Cesonino, it is famous above all for the recovery of around 1800 rolls of papyrus charred that, together with numerous waxed tablets, they constituted a rich rich library above all of texts to philosophical character with numerous writings of Epicuro.
Today the papyruses have preserved in the National Library in Naples; here we can admire sculptures and you furnish of bronze between which a splendid head of Dioniso barbato, the Hermes in rest, the erma of the doriforo of Policleto, the famous portrait of the Pseudo-Seneca and a series of portraits in marble.

The Saloon of the Sundial
His/her construction goes up again at 1612-1615 o'clock to want some viceroy of Lemnos and is one of the more vast and prestigious architectural spaces of Europe. The official opening of the Saloon goes up again to 1783 as Library. The time is of Pietro Bardellino student of De Mura. To the walls you square representatives the deeds of Alexander Farnese, governor of Phillip II. The sundial represents wish, then irrealizzata, to systematize an astronomic observatory here. To the center he has put the very famous statue of Atlas, copy Roman of the second half the II sec. AD from an original of age ellenistica; Atlas holds up the globe on which they are represented the elements of the astronomy.

LXVII salts - italic Painting
Decorations of inside walls of graves to box, paintings detached by graves to room deriving from Isernia, Ruvo of Puglia, Paestum, Cuma, Capua, Afragola.

LXVI climbs - LXVIII - Wall Decoration
The collection of the paintings " pompeiane " includes fragments of the plasters detached by the walls of the buildings in Pompeii, Ercolano and Stabia.

LXX climbs - LXXVI
Between the most famous frescos: the Three Graces, the episodes of the myth of Eracle, of the myth of Arianna; the big pictures pompeiani of Eracle and Telefo, the group of Achille and Chirone, the scene of Oreste and Pilade, Perseo and Andromeda, varied episodes of Achille, the sacrifice of Ifigenia and other episodes of the Greek mythology.

LXXVII-LXXVIII climbs - Characters and portraits
Landscapes, for the more medallions or pictures of small dimensions with representations of maritime villas, lake or of hill and some portraits between which Paquio Proculo and his/her wife, Saffo, scenes of commerce, school, proclamation in the Hole and to famous brawl between Pompeiani and Nocerini that it cost the closing of the amphitheater for 10 years, revoked then, after the 62 earthquake AD

LXXX salts - Ivories and glazed Terrecotte
Decorative elements and objects of daily use connected often to the female world.

LXXXIV-LXXXV climbs - Glasses
Primarily deriving from the cities vesuviane and from the Collection Farnese.

LXXIX salts - you arm them
You arm Greek frets and italic recovered in necropolis and in the sanctuaries in Great Greece, Campania and Sannio; the gladiatorial weapons in Pompeii and Ercolano.

LXXXII salts - Silvers
The most notable nucleus is constituted by the deriving furnishings from the House of the Menandro in Pompeii with varied china and mirrors.

LXXXIII salts - The golds
Deriving from tomb outfits of Cuma or the Etruria and, in prevalence, of the period romano. 

LXXXVI-LXXXVIII climbs - You collection of the terrecottes.
Terrecotte from all the greatest centers of Southern Italy.

XC-XCV climbs - Collection of the Bronzes
Kitchen furnishings and from cafeteria, decorative elements, objects and tools of shop, tools of the technology, surgical tools and casseforti.

XCVI salts - Plastic of Pompeii
Performed between 1861 and 1879 from F. Padiglione on staircase 1:100 on the base of the plant in staircase 1:400 of G. Tascone are in cork, exemplary for the precision and the trivial detail of every particular.
Others valuable collections exposed in the Museum are: the Vascular Collection; the Collection Glittica; the Medagliere; the Egyptian Harvest; the Prehistoric Collection and the Collection Epigrafica.

It's the most important archaeological museum of Europe. With the collection that Charles of Borbone inherited from the Farneses in Parma, what offers has been resold (bronzes, marbles, paintings, furnishings) in the buildings dissepolti to
Pompeii and Ercolano and besides the Material come to the light during him you dig to Cuma and in other places Bells. Collection of Antiquity Etrusche and d Egyptians, harvest of ancient coins and Secret " Bathroom ".

Schedule: Work 09:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Festive 09:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m.;
Closed on Tuesdays, Entry € 6,20

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