Free museums in Naples for the 2017 Women's Day: the 8 March women do not pay

For the 2017 Women's Day free museums in Naples
Written by Fabiana Bianchi
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Free museums for the 2017 Women's Day in Naples with special events and guided tours!

On the occasion of Women's Day,8 March 2017 all the state museums of Naples will be free for all women. This was announced by MiBact, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, specifying that even for archaeological sites and monuments, women will not have to pay the entrance ticket.

The initiative is repeated, having started last year thanks to theinitiative of the Minister Dario Franceschini, which guaranteed that every 8 March the state venues will be open for free. An appointment that is added to that of March 5, 2017, in which i museums will be open access for everyone, because it is the first Sunday of the month.

The various museums will also organize guided tours and special events, all dedicated to women.
Below, the program of the various activities and the participating museums, a calendar that will be continuously updated.

Program 8 March in museums in Naples

Duke of Martina Museum

Lucia Migliaccio, Duchess of Floridia: a 'feminine' question

An event dedicated to the Duchess of Floridia, Lucia Migliaccio, to her life, to the problematic wedding and to the relationship with her children born in the first marriage. We will also talk about the way in which he conquered Ferdinando IV, her second husband.

  • Where: via Cimarosa, 77
  • Timetable: 10.00- 12.00- 17.00
  • Phone: 3339564880
  • Email: pm-cam.martina@beniculturali.it

Monumental complex of Carminiello to the Mannesi in Naples

Al Carminiello complex at the Mannesi Extraordinary visits will be made in this generally closed archaeological area. We will visit a block of the ancient Neapolis with thermal areas, dating back to around the XNUMXst and XNUMXnd centuries BC. There will be the guides of the Neapolitan Arhceologico Group.

  • Where: vico I Carminiello ai Mannesei
  • Hours: 10.00 13.00-
  • Infe and eventual reservation: Naples Excavations Office 081440942 (9.00-13.00 hours)

National archeologic museum

Women and goddesses. The rediscovery of the female universe in antiquity.

Al Archaeological Museum of Naples, a journey to get to know some of the most important female figures of the ancient world, such as empresses, nymphs, goddesses, women entrepreneurs, but also common women.
Maximum 30 people for each visit.

  • Where: National Museum Square, 19
  • Timetable: 10.00, 12.00, 15.00 and 17.00
  • Phone: 0814422276

Castel Sant'Elmo and the Museum of the Twentieth Century

A guided tour to discover women in the works of art of the Museo del Novecento, which was created to give space to the new artistic movements and poetics of the last century.

  • Where: via Tito Angelini, 22
  • Oario: 11.30
  • Tel: 081 2294 449

Pigantellli Museum

Two guided tours on the figure of Rosina Pignatelli, the last resident of Villa Pignatelli.

  • Where: Riviera di Chiaia, 200
  • Tel: 081669675
  • Timetable: 11.00 and 16.00

Ruins of Pompeii

For the Women's Day there will be the extraordinary opening of the House of Venus in Bikini and the homonymous statue will be moved for a day from the Archaeological Museum of Naples to its place of discovery.

  • Where: Pompeii excavations
  • Timetable: 9.00-17.00 (last entry 17.30)
  • Tel: 081 8575 347

All participating museums

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