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Entrance to the Gabinetto Segreto. The Secret Museum or Secret Cabinet (Italian: Gabinetto Segreto) in Naples is the collection of 1st-century Roman erotic art found in Pompeii and Herculaneum, now held in separate galleries at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, the former Museo Borbonico.
Re-opened, closed, re-opened again and then closed again for nearly 100 years, the Secret Museum, Naples was briefly made accessible at the end of the 1960s (the time of the sexual revolution) and was finally re-opened for viewing in 2000. Minors are still only allowed entry to the once-secret cabinet in the presence of a guardian, or with ...
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Italian: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, abbr. MANN) is an important Italian archaeological museum, particularly for ancient Roman remains. Its collection includes works from Greek , Roman and Renaissance times, and especially Roman artifacts from the nearby Pompeii , Stabiae and Herculaneum ...
The Venus Kallipygos, in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.. The Italian city of Naples has a number of museums. Two are national museums: the National Archaeological Museum or Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, which holds significant collections of artifacts of the Roman Empire, [1] including objects unearthed at Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as some artifacts from the Greek ...
The practice of separating works away from publicly accessible collections had an antecedent in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples—the museum whose collection includes Roman artefacts from the nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum sites—whose Secret Cabinet (Italian: Gabinetto Segreto) contained the erotic works found in those ...
The inauguration was attended by Pistoletto, Naples mayor Gaetano Manfredi and various other local officials, according to a media release from the local council, which called the work “a symbol ...
A bronze polyphallic tintinnabulum of Mercury from Pompeii: the missing bells were attached to each tip (Naples Museum). Tintinnabulum depicting a man struggling with his phallus as a raging beast (1st century BC, Naples Museum) In ancient Rome, a tintinnabulum (less often tintinnum) [1] was a wind chime or assemblage of bells.
Secret Museum, Naples; Villa Floridiana; Zoological Museum of Naples; Orvieto. Museo Archeologico di Orvieto; Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto; Padua.