Useful information
NOTICE TO VISITORS
From Friday, 6 August 2021, visitors must show their Green Pass, either digital or paper, with a valid identity document to access the Capodimonte Museum (DPCM of 23 July 2021). The rules do not apply to children under the age of 12 and to persons with certain documented medical conditions.The ticket office will verify the QR codes of all visitor Green Passes, which will take just a few minutes. The museum will also continue to enforce traditional anti-COVID protocols: temperature checks at the entrance, required masks, physical distancing in the galleries, and use of the hand sanitizing gel available throughout the museum.A green pass is not required to visit the Real Bosco.
The Museum opens, every day, except Wednesday. Reservation on the coop culture website or with the app “Capodimonte”.
The Royal Park Real Bosco di Capodimonte is open
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, the 1st of January and 25th of December.
On 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.
CONTACTS
telephone: +39 081 7499111
e-mail: mu-cap@beniculturali.it
mu-cap.accoglienza.capodimonte@beniculturali.it
TICKETS
– € 12 full price
– € 2 reduced for citizens of the European Union between 18 and 25 years of age (up to and including the day of the 25th birthday)
Free:
– visitors under 18
– Italian citizens residing abroad
The ticket is valid all day with unlimited exit and re-entry until closing time.
Wheelchairs are available for disabled visitors.
MUSEUM TIMETABLE
First floor (8.30 am – 7.30 pm / last entrance 6.30 pm)
Farnese Gallery, the Gallery of curiosities and temporary exhibitions on the same floor
Second and third floor (10.00 am – 5.30 pm / last entrance 5.00)
Neapolitan Gallery from the 13th century to Baroque, the contemporary art collection and temporary exhibitions on the same floor
Ottocento Privato open on Tuesdays and Thursdays (10.00 am – 4.00 pm / last entrance 3.30 pm)
INSTALLATION IN PROGRESS IN THE ROYAL APARTMENT UNTIL SPRING 2022: THE PORCELAIN CABINET OF
THE MUSEO E REAL BOSCO DI CAPODIMONTE
Capodimonte is home to approximately 6,000 ceramics and works in porcelain,
making the museum home to one of the most important such collections in
Europe. Most of the objects come from the Bourbon Collection, which was later
enriched by purchases and gifts after the unification of Italy in 1861.
Our current installation of the Cabinet’s ten rooms intends to revive the
ambitious project of Annibale Sacco, director of the Royal House of Savoy.
Beginning in 1872, Sacco, on behalf of the king, reassembled a large collection of
porcelain and ceramics that had belonged to the Bourbon family and had been
dispersed across various royal sites.
The porcelain, which Sacco did not distribute across various rooms of the palace
as mere furnishings, will be exhibited in dedicated thematic rooms, increasing
the number of works on view and better showcasing the diversity and breadth of
our collections.
Among the themed rooms are those dedicated to the European manufactures of
Meissen, Sèvres, Vienna, Berlin, Naples, and Capodimonte, linking the palace to
the porcelain manufactory Charles of Bourbon commissioned in Naples.
The collection includes important porcelain acquired by the Bourbon Court
through prestigious gifts or royal purchases, such as those brought to Naples by
the wife of King Ferdinand IV, Maria Carolina of Austria, from Vienna, or those
donated by the Hapsburg imperial court of Berlin, including porcelain from
Sèvres and Dagoty, and even English terracotta. Additionally, approximately
600 works in the collection were made by the Neapolitan manufactures of Del
Vecchio and Giustiniani as well as the Sicilian Baron Giuseppe Malvica.
This project is led by Federico Forquet.
Closed on Wednesday
We remind you that the entrance ticket allows you to go in and out of the museum as much as you want during the day.
The Mele Collection are accessible by reservation only (preferably on Sunday morning, except the first Sunday of every month), by email at the following address:
mu-cap.accoglienza.capodimonte@beniculturali.it
The Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe is accessible by reservation only (from Monday to Friday from 9.30 am. to 1.30 pm.) by email at the following address: mu-cap.accoglienza.capodimonte@beniculturali.it
Reservations and guided tours:
Individuals or groups, schools:
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.
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 not recommanded
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
DIRECTIONS TO THE MUSEUM
from the Highway
take Tangential Route, Capodimonte exit
Parking
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:
3M (stop Porta Piccola, Via Miano);
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.
The Museo di Capodimonte is also one of the stops of the Citysightseeing bus line A
The City Sightseeing Line A buses stop at Porta Piccola
By bus or taxi use the Porta Grande Stop, Via Capodimonte.
OBJECTS ON LOAN
The Museum of Capodimonte collaborates with other museums and cultural institutions, nationally and internationally, to the realization of art exhibitions. The lending of artworks and exchange relationships between institutions increase the value of the museum and provide a platform through which is possible to attract the interest and support for projects and initiatives, helping to raise awareness in the world of the Museum of Capodimonte as a notable center for visual arts, with a prestigious permanent collection.
To enhance the experience of visiting the Museum, we invite you therefore to read the list of the objects on loan, to check in advance if the artwork to which you are particularly interested in is out for exhibitions.
The list takes into account both those artworks usually included throughout the exhibition and the artworks in storage.
Additionally, the dates indicated refer to the duration of various exhibitions, not including the necessary time required for preparation, transport and mounting of the objects from and to the Museum of Capodimonte.
For further information: mu-cap.accoglienza.capodimonte@beniculturali.it
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR REPRODUCTIONS AND PERMISSION TO FILM: VIDEO AND PHOTO
The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte has elaborated a simplified procedure concerning the requests for a fair use of the pictures related to the Museum’s properties and works of art.
Taking pictures of the State’s properties legally require an authorisation from the Museo di Capodimonte. Apart from a strictly personal use of the pictures – for personal enjoyment or study – the use and possession of pictures require the payment of a charge.
For further information mu-cap.dirittiriproduzione@beniculturali.it
CAPODIMONTE IS A PARK
The Real Bosco di Capodimonte covers 134 hectares of gardens and woods overlooking the city and bay of Naples. It is no longer merely a hunting ground, but a pleasure garden with elegant paths and avenues designed to delight the visitor.
Thanks to the climate and centuries of careful planting by distinguished botanists, the park contains many rare and exotic specimens.You will see camphor trees and camelias from Asia, magnolias and cypresses from the Americas and eucalyptus from Australia.
Within the Park there are a further 16 historic buildings including residences, lodges, churches as well as fountains, statues, orchards and woods.
Opening times
in October, February and March:
open from 7.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
in November, December and January:
open from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
in April, May, June, July, August and September:
open from 7.00 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
We kindly inform you that the Royal Park of Capodimonte will be closed on Easter Monday in order to conserve the grounds.
