Mid-August holiday is again the right moment to visit the permanent collections of the Museum.
Do not miss the new permanent gallery Domus. Furnishings from Pompeii.
The new gallery expands and starts a dialogue with the adjacent rooms dedicated to everydaylife objects from Vesuvian towns. The new rooms, from 90 to 94, will permanently display the sculptures and the furnishings from Vesuvian cities: stools, benches, tables, oil-lamps, candelabra, lamp-holders, braziers, chafing-dishes, bowls and basins for fountains, but also mural frescoes. These objects are incredibly beautiful and evocative and they have been a source of inspiration in the sector of design and applied arts, ever since they were discovered, forging modern European taste.
Do not miss the new temporary exhibition: Recovered treasures: stories of crimes and smuggled relics,, that reveals the dynamics underpinning the illicit trade in cultural objects and the irreversible damage suffered by heritage.
On display an extraordinarily heterogeneous selection of about 600 artefacts, from the Archaic Age to the Middle Ages, from Southern Italy and beyond: pottery, bronze objects, figurative terracottas, marble decorations, underwater finds and Greek, Roman and medieval coins.
