Tourist Attraction in Naples:
Museo Diocesano di Napoli

The Diocesan Museum of Naples is a museum located inside the church of Santa Maria Donnaregina Nuova. In addition to hosting a collection of paintings, bronzes and relics from the archiepiscopal palace rather than other closed or suppressed buildings of worship in the city, the museum also incorporates the two churches that are part of the Donnaregina complex, so it is the seventeenth-century Chiesa Nuova , within which the museum in the strict sense has its own seat, which the fourteenth-century Old Church. The museum was inaugurated on October 23, 2007 at the church of Donnaregina Nuova with the intention of collecting the works coming partly from the New and Old churches, in another part from the archives of the archiepiscopal palace, where the museum originally housed, or from other churches in Naples closed, suppressed or in any case presented conditions of high risk and danger of stealing for the works they held within them. The museum is managed by the archdiocese of Naples, with the supervision of the Superintendency at the museum pole of Naples, and was born by the will of the archbishop and cardinal Crescenzio Sepe. Both the two churches of Donnaregina, Vecchia and Nuova, are part of the museum circuit. Inside the Nuova church some rooms have been reorganized so that they could host the collection of paintings, sculptures and relics that are part of the actual Diocesan Museum which was once in the archiepiscopal palace. The paintings belong mainly to the Neapolitan school, with works by authors such as Luca Giordano, Francesco Solimena, Massimo Stanzione, Aniello Falcone and Andrea Vaccaro. The New Church, where the museum is located, belongs to the heritage of the "Funds of worship buildings" of the Ministry of the Interior, while the Old Church belongs to the Municipality of Naples. The church of Donnaregina Nuova consists of a single nave with three chapels on each side; presents paintings of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan paintings and frescoes of the same century in the vault and in the two choirs of the upper floor. Word processing: Giovambattista Spagnuolo (Myooni)

Attractions in Naples