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Naples archeological museum and Herculaneum in one day?

Naples archeological museum and Herculaneum in one day?

Old Jun 25th, 2011, 01:49 AM
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I'd strongly challenge the comments about guidebooks, captioning and the Archaeological Museum. By Italian standards (which are admittedly almost as appalling as the standards of honesty in its politicians) both the standard, and billingualism, of captioning in the Museum are excellent.

The English is, of course, boarding on the illiterate or at best gibberish (what else do you expect from Europe's worst education system?). But the scholarly standards are excellent.

Far superior to most guidebooks (including even the Blue Guide) - and way ahead of the lamentably rotten books on sale in its bookshop.

The quality of objects on display is also outstanding, and worth far longer than a half day: something I never, ever recommend for museums normally. With "second entry" admission heavily reduced with an Artecard, and poor standards of natural light (which makes for "museum head") I'd strongly suggest going free for the 2-3 hours absolute max anyone shouod ever stay in a museum, doing something else, then returning later for a second look.

The mosaics and Roman glass are absolutely gobsmacking: some might think the immense classical statuary worth missing. Havingthe loathing for the stuff that comes from 35 years' peripheral study of it, I forced myself to stick with it this time. Really worth making the effort to do so.
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Old Jun 27th, 2011, 03:13 AM
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Babel, or what?

A phone call to the museum today confirmed that the price is currently €6.50 - just as is shown here...

http://museoarcheologiconazionale.ca.../accessibilita

And although there's very little point in booking, note that the €3.50 supplement mentioned on the Pierreci website applies ONLY during special exhibitions, and that there's NOT one on at present...

The Egyptian rooms though are likely to be closed for some time yet - one of the downsides of housing the collection in a 15th or 16th century building!

Those actually visiting, rather than merely taking an opportunity to sound off, may care to download a PDF copy of the handy "Qui Napoli" magazine, which is perhaps more reliable as a source of information - and the current, May/June, edition is available here...

http://www.inaples.it/public/quinapoli/quinapoli.pdf

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