Here's how to spend a special Valentine's Day in the name of art and culture in the museums of Naples!
Valentine's day is approaching! Only one week is left Valentine's day and in Naples will be held a series of initiatives and events of all kinds and that will satisfy all tastes. Culture enthusiasts will be able to take advantage of the "Lovers' Night", a series of special events organized by the Municipality of Naples and the Department of Culture and Tourism in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts and the superintendencies, museums, cultural institutions and tourism operators within the Neapolitan museums who, for the occasion, will extend their opening hoursup to 24. An initiative that will capture the attention of citizens and tourists towards our artistic and cultural heritage and that will offer them the opportunity to enter museums paying only one entry per couple.
We point out some of these events organized in the most famous Neapolitan museums and places of art, one more opportunity to visit them, to explore them at unusual times surrounded by the charm of the night, to fall in love with Naples and to fall in love with Naples ...
National Archaeological Museum of Naples
The famous National archeologic museum of Naples has well planned two guided tours inside its majestic rooms full of relics of enormous historical and artistic value. Two paths dedicated, obviously to love.
16:30 | Ancient love. An itinerary between art and literature
Guided tours of the Museum collections inspired by the love theme represented through the works of antiquity and literary expressions. A great opportunity to tell about due, possible, and forbidden loves. A path through images and works: the Farnese Hercules, the Farnese Bull, the Farnese Antinous, the relief of Orpheus and Euridice and various frescoes from Pompeii. Myths, Gods and Heroes who tell love stories will come back to life through the readings of Apuleius, Hyginus, Lucretius, Ovid, Seneca and Virgil. Curated by CoopCulture.
Reservation at the 848800288 number
17:15 | Hunt for love
A game, through the Museum's collections, which will lead the participants to the discovery of their “mythical” love
Reservation at the number: 0814422149
Museum of Capodimonte
Il Museum of Capodimonte it will welcome couples in love and anyone who wants to know the facets of love inspired by mythological and historical events, with the support of famous works of art kept in the rooms of the museum.
11:00 - 16:00 | Beware of those two. Paths of Love between myth and history
In-depth visits to the love theme between myth and history. The itinerary will focus on the works of: Hendrick Van der Broecke, Venus and Cupid (and related preparatory drawing) - Titian, Danae - Jan Sons, Amori degli dei - Ludovico Carracci, Rinaldo and Armida - Annibale Carracci, Rinaldo and Armida -Manifattura di Capodimonte, Mirror of Mary
Amalia of Saxony with gallant scenes - Francesco Liani, Portrait of Maria Amalia on horseback and Portrait of Charles of Bourbon on horseback - Francisco Goya, Portrait of Charles IV, King of Spain and Portrait of Maria Luisa of Parma -Louis Nicolas Lemasle, Marriage of the Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon with the Duke of Berry.
Price tickets: 7,50 euro (per couple)
Info and reservations: 081 7499111
Duca di Martina Museum
11:30 am | Ferdinando IV and Lucia Migliaccio, his last love
"What a beautiful thing!", he loved to repeat the king,"I have a wife who lets me do what I want and a minister who leaves me nothing to do"
The Museo delle Ceramiche Duca di Martina, located in the suggestive Floridiana villa, has organized a guided tour that will be held in the morning dedicated to love, parties and entertainment that were held at the beginning of the 800th century inside the rooms of the villa. Bourbon king gave his wife, a Sicilian nobleman known in Palermo in 1806 and married in 1814, with great sensation because only three months after the death of Queen Maria Carolina.
Info and reservations: 081 5788418
Museum of Palazzo Reale
He and she, Carolina Fernanda and her husband the Duke of Berry
Guided tours dedicated to the love of Carolina Fernanda and her husband Duke of Berry, inside the elegant rooms of the Royal Palace of Naples.
Information: 0815808328; Official website of the Royal Palace of Naples
Pignatelli Museum
A psychology for love
Day of reflections with Mario Mastropaolo on Valentine's Day. Readings, music, dances with projection of film and / or theater passages
Information: 081 761 2356
City of Science
From 20 to 24 | Moon Party
The Coroglio Science Center will involve all lovers of science and astronomy within a path to discover love and dedicated to the Moon. City of Science it will be extraordinarily open from 20 am to 24 pm, to let visitors spend a romantic and entertaining Valentine's day between interactive installations, exhibitions, observations to the stars and workshops.
This is the program of the initiative Moon Party:
Love: when passion is born of the brain
It will be the visiting path of Brain The World in the head. There will be many surprises throughout the exhibition: a special emotional helmet for couple affinity by E-voluzione and SAEL will involve the public in a fun test based on strong emotions.
Love pins + Love app + Instant show
Path created by Enjinia, is instead the path created with microchip that will accompany the evening of all lovers of Città della Scienza step by step. LumiLab will develop an exclusive love app for the audience of this special evening while Chiara Scarpitti with hers Instant Show is He will introduce us to his precious creations with an ad hoc line of jewels.
Nature in love
It will be possible to discover the rules of love for fascinating insects and plants
Taste of Science
We will explore many scientific phenomena that surround us daily
The wonders of the Light
In a romantic evening you can not miss a candlelit path with The wonders of light as well as a big heart that the public will collectively build in the interactive installation Growing Love by CtrlAltLab.
It will be possible to book one romantic dinner for two at Art Food.
Price tickets: 6,50 €
Information on our dedicated article
Madre - Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum
from 10: 00 to 19: 30 (last entry 18 hours: 30) |Vettor and Mimma Pisani: Fantastic Cosmic Couple
On the occasion of the retrospective Heroic / Anti-heroic on the artist Vettor Pisani, an event dedicated to the artistic and sentimental relationship between the spouses will be held at the Madre museum Vettor and Mimma Pisani, which will be the protagonists of readings and reflections that will accompany visitors for Valentine's Day. An initiatory journey into the maze of a partnership in which poetic and figurative research meet, merging into an artistic and sentimental bond experienced "In fidelity and imbalance, in asymmetry and symbiotic correspondence".
Price tickets: 7 euro (per couple)
Information and contacts: 081 193 13 016; official website of the Madre Museum
Museo Cappella Sansevero
On the occasion of Valentine's Day, also the suggestive San Severo Chapel, which houses the famous statue of the Veiled Christ, will be opened extraordinarily by 18: 30 24 to: 00 and will allow 2 × 1 entry to all couples.
Each couple will also receive a free postcard, depicting one of the works of the Sansevero Chapel, and precisely one of the Statues of Virtues, called "Conjugal love", a work by Paolo Persico dated 1768.
Price tickets: 7 euro (per couple)
Information and contacts: 081 5518470, info@museosansevero.it
Gaetano Filangieri Civic Museum
It will be open from 18 pm to 30 pm (beyond the normal opening hours 22-30) to exhibit the painting Venus disarming Love by Francois Boucher.
Price tickets:5 euro (per couple)
Information and contacts: 081 203175; salviamoilmuseofilangierionlus@gmail.com
National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa
A special evening and night tour inside the Railway Museum of Pietrarsa, where all couples can admire the ancient carriages and locomotives that have united Italy from 1839 to the present day.
For the occasion, a special lighting will be proposed of the royal carriage that saw the wedding between Umberto II and Maria Josè and the projection, in the cinema room of the museum, of a historical film with a love theme The bridge of 1948, from the archives of the Railways del Sato (duration 10 min.)
Price tickets: 5 euro (per couple)
Information and contacts in our dedicated article
