MUSEUM

This museum is, in the first place, in close connection with the territory, in which it carries out a particular work of cultural promotion, as it welcomes what comes from the city to offer it again to visitors, through the dual function of witness and aesthetic enjoyment. Besides being a “place” perfectly inserted in the history of the territory, this museum is also a “religious place” with at least two relevant titles. In the first place it testifies to the presence of the early Christian basilica of the sixth century, on which successive generations have built spaces of spirituality and worship, and in which the Christian faith is “cultured” in the works of the artists. Everyone can admire frescoes, tables, sculptures, mosaics and paintings, which refer to specific texts and contexts, explicitly linked to the Christian tradition.

Within this, then, the particular Franciscan spirituality, of undisputed historical, architectural and cultural importance, excels, which, in continuity with the first, “provisional”, settlement of the followers of Francis, have done over the centuries until the present, amalgamates with the truest and most authentic history of the Neapolitan city and its people.

The museum offers an extraordinary cross-section of the history of Naples, which covers a period of about 25 centuries and illustrates the stratifications present within the monumental complex, from the Greco-Roman era until the 18th century.