The National Archaeological Museum of Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples

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Great museums are the keepers of history. Exchange of experience and strategic ideas. " Conference at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

July 13, 2018 in the Farnese Hall of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples (MANN) held a public conference of the Director of the Neapolitan Museum Paolo Giulerini and the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky. The theme of the dialogue is "Great museums - keepers of history. Exchange of experience and strategic ideas. "
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is one of the largest collections of monuments of ancient Greece and Rome in the world. The history of its appearance in many respects echoes the history of the Hermitage: it is located in one of the royal palaces, and access to this royal assembly, although limited, was opened in 1770. The richest collections of the museum developed over several centuries thanks to the enlightened gathering of representatives of several generations of the Farnese family and their heirs - the Neapolitan Bourbons, the kings of both Sicilies. It was in the reign of the Bourbons that large-scale excavations of Pompeii began, most of the art objects found here are now kept in the Neapolitan museum. But not only the culture of nearby Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia, but also numerous Greek settlements on the territory of modern Italy, once part of the so-called "Great Greece", thanks to archaeological finds is widely represented in the halls of MANN.
How to preserve this wealth, how to tell a contemporary visitor to museums about it, how to show exhibitions, keep in touch with other museums, train students, prepare restorers - these questions are asked both in the Hermitage and at the National Archaeological Museum. The joint agreement signed two years ago is bearing fruit: in the Hermitage on December 7, 2017, the exhibition "Dying Gaul" was opened - three antique sculptures from the Neapolitan Museum; May 3, 2018 - "Lombards - a people that changed Europe," before shown in Pavia and Naples. The Hermitage in its turn presented exhibits to the exhibition "Love of the Gods" (MANN, 2017). Ahead of even more significant projects: in the spring of 2019 in Naples the exposition "Canova and the classical heritage" will open, at the same time the exhibition "Pompeii: the world of gods and heroes" will start in the Hermitage.
The journalists of the three largest newspapers of Southern Italy were present and actively participated in the conference: Corriere del Medzodiorno, Il Matteo di Napoli, La Repubblica di Napoli. The role of the host was assumed by the Secretary-General of the Hermitage-Italy Center, Maurizio Cecconi.


The Farnese Bull at the Naples National Archaeological Museum is a massive Hellenistic sculpture, the largest single sculpture ever recovered ...