National Archeological Museum Naples

• The Naples Archeological Museum contains artefacts excavated from the nearby buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
• It is located at Piazza Museo 19, Naples, Italy.

Works from Antiquity

• Mosaics
  • Recovered from Pompeii and nearby towns:
    • The Alexander Mosaic.
• Statues
  • Statue of Trajan (1st century CE) from Minturno.
  • A copy is located in front of the Roman Wall Tower Hill in London.
• Roman Bronzes
  • From the Villa of the Papyri
    • The Seated Hermes
    • The Drunken Satyre
    • The Bust of Thespis.
• The Farnese Collection
  • Including the Roman marble statues:
    • The Toro Farnese
    • The Atlante Farnese
    • The Ercole Farnese.
• The Pompeii Collection
  • Which includes Paintings, Statues and Frescoes.
• Lex Julia Municipalis
  • Fragments of a bronze tablet containing the Lex Julia Municipalis were found in Heraclea. They are now housed in the National Archeological Museum Naples.
  • The Law was passed by Julius Caesar with the aim of reducing congestion in Rome by banning cart traffic during the daylight hours.

National Archeological Museum, Naples