Naples Archaeological Museum tickets: €20, shut on Tuesdays, and the mosaic rooms closed to 30 November

💡 The Short Version: The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (the MANN) costs €20 and is closed on Tuesdays. Its mosaic collection, with the Alexander Mosaic, and the Secret Cabinet are closed from 21 September to 30 November 2026. The Villa dei Papiri, the Farnese sculptures, the Egyptian collection, the Temple of Isis and the Pompeii scale model are open. Magna Graecia and the upper Prehistory galleries are shut on Thursday and Sunday. The first Sunday of the month is free, with the Egyptian collection, the Secret Cabinet and Magna Graecia closed. Buy at the museum’s own shop or at the desk. Or book a tour: the two-hour guided tour with entryad is from €41.80 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices are the adult rate from the museum’s hours and tickets page. Searches for the museum return sites with its name in their web addresses that are not the museum; its tickets are sold at its own shop, at the desk and through its ticket agent CoopCulture.

• One ticket covers the permanent galleries and the temporary exhibitions. Buying online carries no booking fee.
• Free days: the first Sunday of every month, 25 April, Tuesday 2 June and 4 November in 2026, and 8 March for women. Free tickets cannot be booked in advance. On free days the Egyptian collection, the Secret Cabinet and the Magna Graecia section stay closed.
• The annual OPEN MANN card is €25. A day ticket or the card gives 25 per cent off at about 40 partner sites, including the Galleria Borbonica, the Catacombs of Naples and the Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s prices are its lowest “from” prices. The museum prints no entry time on its ticket, so a “skip the line” product adds only a guide or audio.

Tours worth paying for

The ticket has no entry time, so a tour is for the guide and the order of the rooms. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Guided tour with skip-the-line entry

From €41.80 · 2 hours · 4.8 stars from 636 reviews

Naples: National Archaeological Museum of Naples Guided Tourad is run by Askos Tours and covers the Farnese collection and the frescoes and mosaics from Pompeii and Herculaneum. The €20 entry is included, so the guide costs about €21.80. Free cancellation, and it must be booked at least 2 hours ahead. The mosaic rooms are closed to 30 November 2026.

Audio guide only

From €3.99 · 4.1 stars from 179 reviews

Naples: National Archaeological Museum audio guidead is a self-guided audio tour with photos, maps and descriptions, covering the Hercules statue and the Venus Callipigia among others. It does not include entry. Free cancellation.

What to see

The museum holds the Farnese collection of antiquities, which came to Naples with the Bourbon kings, and the finds from Pompeii and Herculaneum. It sits in a palace on Piazza Museo.

The museum’s front on Piazza Museo, with the entrance steps. Photo: Yair Haklai, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Farnese collection (ground floor). The Farnese Hercules and the Farnese Bull, colossal statues unearthed at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome from 1545, are here, with the Farnese gems of more than 2,000 pieces in a separate gallery. The Campania in the Roman period gallery fills the west wing beside it.
2. The Egyptian collection (basement). Seven rooms, which the museum ranks second in Italy after Turin’s. Groups of 10 to 30 book a free timed entry at the desk near the central staircase. It is shut on free Sundays.
3. The mosaics and the Secret Cabinet (first floor). The mosaics come from the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and the section ends with the Alexander Mosaic, of Alexander the Great’s triumph over Darius III. The Secret Cabinet holds about 250 sexually themed objects from the two towns. Both are closed to 30 November 2026. The Numismatic section on the same floor is open from 10:00 to 18:20.
4. The second floor. The Temple of Isis, the first religious building excavated at Pompeii, with its wall paintings; the 1:100 scale model of Pompeii, first shown in 1879; the frescoes; and five rooms of everyday objects. The Villa dei Papiri section is open from 10:00 to 18:20: the museum calls its bronzes, including the runners, the resting Hermes and the drunken satyr, the most significant group of Roman bronzes to survive.
5. Magna Graecia and Prehistory (second floor). Open on the rotation in the hours table below.

The Farnese Bull, one of the two colossal Farnese statues on the ground floor. Photo: Paolo Villa, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

Allow two hours: the Farnese rooms, then the second floor, and the Egyptian basement last. What to skip with limited time: the Campania in the Roman period gallery and the Numismatic section.

The 1:100 model of Pompeii, here showing the theatre district. Photo: virtusincertus, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Hours, closed rooms and getting there

The museum is open 9:00 to 19:30, with last entry at 18:30; staff begin clearing the galleries at 19:00. It is closed on Tuesdays, 1 January and 25 December. It opens on Tuesday 8 December 2026 and closes the next day, Wednesday 9 December. Rooms can close without notice, and no refunds are given when they do.

• Getting there: Piazza Museo 18/19. Metro Line 1 to Museo, or Line 2 to Piazza Cavour. The buses to Capodimonte leave from Piazza Museo.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a Tuesday, or on a free Sunday expecting the Egyptian collection.

The finds on the first and second floors come from Pompeii and Herculaneum, which are day trips: Pompeii from Naples and Herculaneum. Capodimonte is a bus ride up the hill from the same square, and Campania Artecard: is it worth it? says when the MANN pays for a pass. What to book before you go to Naples has the closed day of every sight, 3 days in Naples fits the museum round them, and free things to do in Naples lists the other free Sundays. Where to stay in Naples compares the areas, and Naples public transport has the metro fares.