archaeological museum

The Doukato Lighthouse hits a four-point-five, but only on a hundred and eleven reviews, and the reviews explicitly complain that you cannot even go inside it.

The Archeological Museum is sitting at a dismal three-point-seven from just 15 reviews.

Even Meganisi, the neighboring island that every day boat advertises trips to, fails our test.

It has 17 listings and not a single one reaches a hundred and fifty reviews.

That's great.

Furthermore, Pompeii is completely free for under-18s per the park's published rates, and so is the Archaeological Museum.

This is one of the rare European cities where bringing the kids genuinely costs less when it comes to taxes and major attractions.

That is a huge win for family budgets.

Now, you mentioned earlier that some of the flagships, the massive famous museums, actually miss the bar.

They do.

The Archaeological Museum reads 4.4 from 9,547 reviews.

It costs 20 euro, is free for under 18s, and is shut on Tuesdays.

And the specific museum that I addressed in June.

was the Archaeological Museum of Naples, which is one of the greatest archaeological museums in the world, mainly because a majority of the great stuff that was unearthed in Pompeii was actually brought to the Archaeological Museum in Naples back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but also because the museum houses the Farnese collection.

Pope Paul III, his name was Alessandro Farnese, had an immense collection of antiquities art that initially went to Parma but then was inherited by King Charles who brought it all to Naples and so that is what you're seeing and there are spectacular sculptures in the collection like the Farnese bull the largest ancient statue ever unearthed like the Farnese Hercules and as you mentioned Mary like the bust of Vespasian now i don't have an image of the bust in front of me but if i remember correctly i believe the head of vespasian was carved in marble where the bust instead was made of a type of multi-colored stone i'm imagining some kind of marble as well but a colorful and bright one which is actually quite typical in Imperial Roman sculpture, because essentially you could just mass produce the torso and then fit whatever head you wanted on it.

So that body, the torso itself, could support Vespasian's head like it could support yours, Mary, or mine instead.

What I go back to.

Um, I would probably put in there the Archeological Museum of Naples that has a lot of artifacts from both Pompeii and Herculaneum, so again, that moment when the Vesuvius erupted, and the lava flowed, and so many people were killed, but so much remains of, you know, their homes and their rituals and their furniture and their mosaics.

And just to be able to have access to that, to have, to see between one life and another, between one era and another, between life and death, what was caught in the middle, um, I love that.

I love Diane Arbus's photos from Central Park and those beautiful black-and-white photos of kind of very strange people that she would see in New York City, um, that, again, tell the story of a place that's changing, and you can feel that there's a step in, in a new city and a step in the old city, and that I find those so haunting, and, and I love them.

So people, artworks, experiences that have to do with transitions, I think, are sort of what I go back to.

I would probably put in there the Archaeological Museum of Naples that has a lot of artifacts from both Pompeii and Herculaneum.

So again, that moment when the Vesuvius erupted and the lava flowed and so many people were killed, but so much remains of their homes.

and their rituals and their furniture and their mosaics and just to be able to have access to that, to see between one life and another, between one era and another, between life and death, what was caught in the middle.