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- This collection comprises portions of floor decorations and some wall decorations dating from the two centuries before Christ and up to 79 A.D., almost all of them from Pompei, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The majority are emblèmata, scenes with figures often derived from Greek paintings.
On display are two scenes from the "new style comedy", signed by Dioskourides of Samos, and the rich array of mosaics from the House of the Faun in Pompei, which includes the famous scene from a battle between Alexander the Great and the Persians under Darius. Also of particular interest are the three sectilia, rare examples of this technique of inlaying different coloured marbles in a slate base to depict figures.
- Secret cabinet
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The Cabinet of Obscene Objects was created in 1817 to bring together about a hundred miscellaneous items which were only to be viewed by important visitors of the male sex on obtaining the relevant authorisation from the Ministry. In the prurient climate of restoration in the 1850s it was closed to viewing, but following the unification of Italy it was reopened and the collection was published by Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1866. After the turn of the century it was dispersed, but it is now being reconstituted and enlarged with some two hundred other items. When it reopens it will be another example of the Royal Bourbon Museum as it was originally constituted.
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| The National Archaeological Museum is the direct successor of the Royal Bourbon Museum, one of Europe's oldest and largest museums. |
VISITING HOURS
Every day:
9:00 am - 20:00 pm (entry actually allowed 19:00 p.m.)
Closed: Tusday, a° January, 25 December
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