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National Archaeological Museum, Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Italian: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, abbr. MANN) is an important Italian archaeological museum, particularly for ancient Roman remains. Its collection includes works from Greek, Roman and Renaissance times, and especially Roman artifacts from the nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum sites. From 1816 to 1861, it was known as Real Museo Borbonico ("the Royal Bourbon Museum").

Established

1777

Piazza Museo 19, Naples, Italy

archaeology

Romans, Greeks, Egyptians

500.000 (2017)

Paolo Giulierini

Fermata Museo
(Metropolitana linea 1)
Fermata Piazza Cavour (Metropolitana linea 2)

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Building[edit]

The building was built as a cavalry barracks in 1585. From 1616 to 1777 it was the seat of the University of Naples. During the 19th century, after it became a museum, it suffered many changes to the main structure.

The , which fixed the image of Hercules in the European imagination.

Farnese Hercules

The is the oldest extant depiction of Atlas from Greek mythology, and the oldest view of the Western constellations, possibly based upon the star catalog of Hipparchus

Farnese Atlas

The , widely considered the largest single sculpture ever recovered from antiquity.

Farnese Bull

The group , a Roman copy of a bronze work that once stood in the Agora of Athens

Harmodius and Aristogeiton

The

Aphrodite Kallipygos

The , again a Roman copy of a Greek original

Farnese Artemis

a collection of busts of Roman emperors

another set of Roman sculptures (again mainly copies of Greek work) that (like the Hercules) once stood in the in Rome.

Baths of Caracalla

Fish Catalogue mosaic

Fish Catalogue mosaic

Fish and ducks, Roman mosaic

Fish and ducks, Roman mosaic

Achilles and Agamemnon, scene from Book I of the Iliad, Roman mosaic

Achilles and Agamemnon, scene from Book I of the Iliad, Roman mosaic

'Cave canem' (beware of the dog) mosaic

'Cave canem' (beware of the dog) mosaic

Achilles' surrender of Briseis to Agamemnon, from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, fresco, 1st century AD

Achilles' surrender of Briseis to Agamemnon, from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, fresco, 1st century AD

Farnese Atlas

Farnese Atlas

The Menologium Rusticum Colotianum, an ancient Roman almanac[5][6]

The Menologium Rusticum Colotianum, an ancient Roman almanac[5][6]

Dionysus, called Narcissus

Dionysus, called Narcissus

List of largest art museums

Official website

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