Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy.
The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important ancient Roman sculptures. It is one of the largest museums in Italy.
The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important ancient Roman sculptures. It is one of the largest museums in Italy.
The first and second floors house the Galleria Nazionale (National Gallery), with paintings from the 13th to the 18th centuries including major works by Simone Martini, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Masaccio, Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgio Vasari, El Greco, Jacob Philipp Hackert and many others. The museum is by far the best place to see paintings of the Neapolitan School, often under-appreciated by the wider world, with large holdings of Jusepe de Ribera, Luca Giordano, the Neapolitan Caravaggisti and many others (see List of works in the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte).
Much of the ground floor is taken up by part of the magnificent Farnese collection of classical, mostly Roman, monumental sculpture, which survives here and in the Naples National Archaeological Museum largely intact.
NOTICE TO VISITORS
The museum is closed each Wednesday, the 1st of January and 25th of December.
For information, on Sunday 24th of December and on the 31th, the museum will be opened to the public during the following hours: 8:30am-2pm.
The ticket office will close one hour before the closure.
From January 15 the rooms of the Farnese Collection with the masterpieces from Tiziano to Carracci will be closed for the installation of the new video-surveillance system.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
To guarantee the protection of the works of art and to give to everyone the opportunity of a full enjoyment of the visit to the museum, and given the large crowds of visitors, in the special days of free admission and the first Sunday of every month the access to organized groups of visit is forbidden.
DIRECTIONS TO THE MUSEUM
via Miano 2 – 80131 Napoli
– from the Highway:
take Tangential Route, Capodimonte exit
– from Naples Central Station:
Line 1 of the subway, Museum stop; then continue on the bus*
Line 2 of the subway, Piazza Cavour stop; then continue on the bus*
– from City Centre:
Bus*: stop in Piazza Museo (next to the National Archaeological Museum), lines:
168 and 178 (stop Porta Piccola, Via Miano);
C63 (stop Porta Grande, via Capodimonte);
R4 (stop Viale Colli Aminei, far about 200 metres from Porta Piccola)
It’s possible to purchase bus/subway tickets at a newsstand, tobacconists or at the vending machines in the subway stations.
Shuttle to/from Museum + Museum Entrance
Adults € 12,00
Children up to 4 yrs free
Children (5-25 yrs) € 6,00
Shuttle Only
Shuttle to/from Museum € 8,00
Shuttle only one way € 5,00
Info: +39 335 780 3812
The Museo di Capodimonte is also one of the stops of the Citysightseeing bus, line A.
By bus or taxi use the Porta Grande Stop, Via Capodimonte.
OPENING HOURS
The Museo di Capodimonte is open every day except on Wednesday from 8.30 am to 7.30 pm. Last admission to the museum is at 6.30 pm. The galleries begin to close from 7 pm.
The Museo di Capodimonte is closed: every Wednesday and 25th of December. (The museum is open November 1).
The Bosco di Capodimonte is closed December 25, January 1 and April 17.
The rooms of the Farnese Collection with the masterpieces from Carracci to Sebastiano Ricci are closed for the installation of the new video-surveillance system.
The Royal Apartment are temporarily closed because of the new setting up.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
Please note that galleries may occasionally have to close.
Carta Bianca (12 December 2017 – 17 June 2018). Ten protagonists of the cultural sphere for one hundred works of art from the Museum.
Some famous names, from Riccardo Muti to Marc Fumaroli, will choose a room in the museum and modify the spaces following their own sensibility and intuition. The exhibition will send a great signal concerning the legitimacy of individual aesthetic tastes and subjective understandings, even those who seem to be far from the traditional narrative of the History of Art, which is too often considered as the only key for understanding art.
The Armoury and the Mele Collection are closed.
The 19th century galleries (intermediate floor) and The 19th collection on the third floor and the Mimmo Jodice PhotoGallery are accessible by reservation only (preferably on Sunday morning, except the first Sunday of every month), by email at the following address:
The Borgia Collection is accessible only by prior reservation. For study and research please contact mu-cap.accoglienza.capodimonte@beniculturali.it
TICKETS
– € 12 full price
– € 8 reduced for visitors aged between 18 and 24 years
– € 4 the first Sunday of every month (for all visitors)
Free:
– visitors under 18
To guarantee the protection of the works of art and to give to everyone the opportunity of a full enjoyment of the visit to the museum, and given the large crowds of visitors, in the days of free admission the access to organized groups of visit is forbidden.
The ticket is valid all day with unlimited exit and re-entry until closing time.
Special ticket with the Shuttle Bus Capodimonte Citysightseeing Napoli
Shuttle to/from Museum + Museum Entrance
Adults € 12,00
Children up to 4 yrs free
Children (5-25 yrs) € 6,00
Only Shuttle
Shuttle to/from Museum € 8,00
Shuttle only one way € 5,00
Info: +39 335 780 3812
Reservations and guided tours:
Individuals or groups (max 25), schools (max 25):
848 800 288
+39 06 399 67 050 (mobile phone or abroad)
Numbers available Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm and from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm. Saturday from 9.00 am to 2.00 pm.
Tickets reservation and entry shifts:
individuals: € 2.00
groups: € 20.00 (min. 12 – max 25)
schools: € 5.00 (min. 12 – max 25)
Teaching and guided tours for groups by Progetto Museo
The card to visit places of art and culture in Naples and in Campania and to travel with public transport of the Unicocampania consortium with benefits and reductions is available here
Contacts:
telephone: +39 081 7499111
e-mail: mu-cap@beniculturali.it
