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💡 The Short Version: The Museo di Capodimonte costs €15, or €12 from 8:30 to 9:30 and from 17:30 to 18:30, and is closed on Wednesdays. Except on Sundays and holidays, the second floor, with the Neapolitan paintings, shuts at 17:00, while Room 62, the room of masterpieces, stays open to 19:30. The Armoury, the third floor, the Mimmo Jodice gallery and parts of the first and second floors are closed for works. The first Sunday of the month is free. GetYourGuide sells no plain entry ticket: buy at the museum’s ticket page or the desk. Or book a tour: the two-hour small-group tour with ticketsad is from €38.50 (GetYourGuide).
Tickets and prices
Prices are the adult rate from the museum’s ticket page and its useful information page.
| Ticket | Price | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Full price | €15 | Everyone else |
| First and last hour | €12 | Tickets bought and validated from 8:30 to 9:30 and from 17:30 to 18:30 |
| Groups | €14 each | More than 15 paying adults over 25 |
| Reduced | €2 | EU citizens aged 18 to 25, to the day of the 25th birthday |
| Free | €0 | Under 18, Disability Card holders and a companion where the card carries an “A”, and everyone on free days |
- The ticket is valid all day, with unlimited exit and re-entry. The ticket office closes an hour before the museum.
- Free days: the first Sunday of every month, 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. In 2026, 4 November is a Wednesday, the museum’s closed day. On free days the Porcelain Gallery opens 10:00 to 17:00.
- The Campania Artecard counts Capodimonte among its free entries. It gives no queue-jump on free days.
- Lockers for bags and backpacks of about 30 x 30 x 45 cm are free.
Tours worth paying for
GetYourGuide sells no plain entry ticket for Capodimonte, so the tours are for the guide. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.
Small-group tour with tickets
From €38.50 · 2 hours · 4.6 stars from 63 reviews
Naples: Capodimonte Museum small group tourad is led by an art historian and includes the entry tickets, so the guide costs about €23.50 over the €15 ticket. It sees the museum’s masterpieces, with Caravaggio and Raphael named in the listing. Free cancellation, and it must be booked at least 1 hour 30 minutes ahead.
GetYourGuide’s private tours of the museum cost €172.50 and €220 for the group.
What to see
Charles of Bourbon ordered Capodimonte in 1738 as a hunting lodge. It is a palace of three floors and 124 galleries, and its core is the Farnese collection, with paintings the museum names by Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, Masaccio and Botticelli.
The Capodimonte palace from the park. Photo: Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- The first floor. The Royal Apartment, which shows the palace as a royal residence, the Farnese collection and the Gallery of Rare Things. The Porcelain Gallery, reopened on 11 June 2026, has 16 rooms and about 1,500 pieces from the roughly 7,000 in the collection. The museum’s own porcelain factory ran from 1743 to 1759.
- Room 62 (second floor). The museum’s room of masterpieces, open to 19:30 every day the museum is open.
- The second floor. The Arts in Naples from the 13th to the 18th century, a chronological route through six centuries of Neapolitan and southern painting. It includes a Caravaggio canvas that came from a church for safekeeping. It shuts at 17:00 except on Sundays, holidays and free days.
- The Real Bosco (the park). 134 hectares of gardens and woods round the palace, with historic buildings, fountains and a belvedere over the city and the bay.
A display case in the Porcelain Gallery, with plates and tureens painted with views. Photo: Mentnafunangann, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Allow three hours for the museum. The order that works: the second floor first in the morning or after a 17:30 visit, then the first floor, and the park last. A visit that starts after 16:00 reaches the second floor only through Room 62, except on Sundays and holidays.
What to skip: the closed wings, so ignore guides that list the Armoury, the third-floor contemporary art or the Jodice photography gallery. The park can wait for another day if you arrive after 16:00.
The Belvedere fountain in the park, with the city below. Photo: Giuseppe Guida, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hours, closed wings and getting there
| Part | Hours |
|---|---|
| Museum | Daily except Wednesday, 8:30 to 19:30; last admission 18:30 |
| Second floor | 8:30 to 17:00, last entry 16:30; Sundays, public holidays and free days to 19:30 |
| Room 62 | 8:30 to 19:30, last entry 18:30 |
| Porcelain Gallery | 8:30 to 19:30, last entry 18:30; on free days 10:00 to 17:00, last entry 16:00 |
| Park (Real Bosco) | April to September 7:00 to 19:30; October, February and March 7:00 to 18:00; November to January 7:00 to 17:00 |
- Closed: the Armoury, the De Ciccio collection, the contemporary art on the third floor, the Mimmo Jodice photography gallery, the 19th and 20th-century sections, the private 19th-century section, and the church of San Gennaro in the park. The park is closed on Easter Monday.
- By metro and bus: Line 1 to Museo or Line 2 to Piazza Cavour, then a bus from Piazza Museo, next to the Archaeological Museum. The 3M, 168 and 178 stop at Porta Piccola, the C63 at Porta Grande, and the 204 about 200 metres from Porta Piccola. Buy bus and metro tickets at a newsstand, a tobacconist or the machines in the metro stations.
- On foot: the museum’s “Due Musei” route links the Archaeological Museum and Capodimonte in about 30 minutes and 2 km, over the Ponte della Sanità and past the Catacombs of San Gennaro.
- By taxi: the Comune’s fixed fare from Napoli Centrale is €15.50 and from the airport €21. Ask for the Porta Grande stop on Via Capodimonte.
- The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving after 16:00 and expecting the Neapolitan paintings on the second floor, except on a Sunday or a holiday.
Naples Archaeological Museum tickets covers the other big museum, and the two share a first-Sunday rule: free things to do in Naples sets out what shuts on free days. Campania Artecard: is it worth it? works out when the €15 entry is covered by a pass. What to book before you go to Naples lists the closed day of every sight, 3 days in Naples puts Capodimonte on a day when it is open, and Naples public transport has the bus and metro fares. Where to stay in Naples compares the areas.
Common questions
How much is a Capodimonte museum ticket?
€15, or €12 for a ticket bought and validated from 8:30 to 9:30 and from 17:30 to 18:30. Groups of more than 15 paying adults pay €14 each. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2, and under-18s are free. The ticket is valid all day, with unlimited exit and re-entry.
Is Capodimonte open on Wednesdays?
No. The museum is open every day except Wednesday, 8:30 to 19:30, with last admission at 18:30. The ticket office closes an hour before closing. 4 November 2026 is listed as a free day and falls on a Wednesday.
What time does the second floor of Capodimonte close?
At 17:00, with last entry at 16:30, except on Sundays, public holidays and free days, when it stays open to 19:30. Room 62, the room of masterpieces, is open until 19:30 every day the museum is open.
Is Capodimonte free on the first Sunday of the month?
Yes, and on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. The Porcelain Gallery opens from 10:00 to 17:00 on free days, and the Campania Artecard gives no priority.
Which parts of Capodimonte are closed?
The Armoury, the De Ciccio collection, the third floor with the contemporary art, the Mimmo Jodice photography gallery, the 19th-century sections and the church of San Gennaro in the park are closed for restoration and reinstallation. Parts of the first and second floors are also closed.
How do I get to Capodimonte from the centre?
Take Metro Line 1 to Museo or Line 2 to Piazza Cavour, then a bus from Piazza Museo: the 3M, 168 or 178 to Porta Piccola, or the C63 to Porta Grande. A taxi from Napoli Centrale has a fixed fare of €15.50.
