National Archaeological Museum of Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples, MANN, was founded by the royal family of the Bourbons in the 18th century, making it one of the oldest in Europe.

The extraordinary collection of the MANN ranges from Prehistory to the late Roman age, enriched by the collections of the Borgias and the Farnese, as well as outside the Museum station of the Naples subway.

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located in Piazza Museo 19, and can be reached by taking the L2 metro line and getting off at Piazza Cavour, or the L1 metro line and getting off at Piazza Museo.

In the atrium of the MANN there are sculptures that come from Herculaneum, and on the monumental staircase there is the statue of Canova depicting Frederick I of Bourbon.

Part of the MANN can also be considered the exterior where the Neapolis station is located, that is, the Museum station of the Naples metro where various finds have been discovered.

The sections of the MANN are: Egyptian section; Greco-Roman sculptures from Campania; the mosaics section; the secret cabinet that contains the erotic section; the hall of the Meridiana; the metals, ivories and glass section, which includes furnishings, objects in ivory and bone and cameo glass; model of Pompeii; the ancient Naples section that includes the Greco-Roman phases of Naples; the prehistory and protohistory section; the temple of Isis, where the Iseum of the Pompeian Sanctuary of Isis has been reconstructed; frescoes section; section dedicated to the finds discovered on ancient Pithecusa, which would be the current island of Ischia.

The MANN rooms are enriched by the epigraphic collection (among the most important in the world), the Farnese collection, the numismatic collection and the Villa dei papiri collection.