On Saturday 14 May the European Night of Museums returns on the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, which offers the possibility of visiting cultural sites at the symbolic cost of 1 euro in the evening from 20.00:23.00 pm to 19.00:22.00 pm. To enter the Royal Palace, entrance tickets will be on sale from XNUMX:XNUMX pm to XNUMX:XNUMX pm, the time of the last scheduled entry.
You can visit the Historic Apartment where, in room XIV, two precious pieces of furniture are exceptionally on display until May 22. The recently restored Rotating Lectern of Maria Carolina of Austria, with which the Queen could consult eight different books at the same time, belonging to the National Library, which preserves another precious twin piece of furniture.
In the same room, which was the bedroom of Maria Amalia of Saxony, wife of Charles of Bourbon, there is also on display the à la Psyché mirror in mahogany burl with gilded bronze finishes, which belonged to another queen, Caroline Bonaparte, wife of Joachim Murat.
It will not be possible to visit the “Galleria del Tempo” in the evening, a permanent exhibition with a multimedia journey through the history of Naples set up in the Scuderie Borboniche, which can be accessed from the Romantic Garden every day (except Wednesdays from 10.00 to 17.00 with last admission at 16.00).
On Wednesday 18 May, on the occasion of International Museum DAY, the Royal Palace of Naples, which is closed for the week, will offer on social media a preview of the exhibition on Don Quixote, which will be open to the public from 14.00:XNUMX pm the following day.
On May 19, in the presence of the Spanish ambassador to Italy Alfonso Dastis Quecedo, the exhibition “Don Quixote between Naples, Caserta and the Quirinale: the cartoons and the tapestries” will be inaugurated at the Royal Palace of Naples, curated by Mario Epifani and Encarnación Sánchez García, who will exhibit the cartoons – preparatory paintings for the creation of the tapestries – with the Stories of Don Quixote, compared with the tapestries made by the Neapolitan factory in the second half of the eighteenth century and destined for the Royal Palace of Caserta, which are now preserved at the Quirinale.
The project is co-financed by the Italian State and the Campania Region, within the POC Campania 2014-2020″.
From May 20 to 22, Race for the Cure will stop in Naples, the great event that supports the fight against breast cancer and prevention through sport. The Royal Palace of Naples, which with the Amphitheater of Santa Maria di Capua Vetere is one of the two sites involved in Campania, reserves free admission to all donors who support the initiative that was born from an agreement between the General Directorate of Museums of the MIC and the volunteer organization Susan G. Komen.
Article published on May 12, 2022 - 12:33 pm
