On the 3rd March 2019, as part of the “Sunday at the Museum” initiative, admission for all visitors will be free of charge. Due to the Winter opening hours being in effect between the 1st November and the 31st March, visitors may access the excavations of Pompeii during the following time slots:     Pompeii, Oplontis and Stabiae: 8:30 - 17:00 (last entrance permitted at 15:30) Boscoreale: 8:3 …Read more

Pompeii will also be taking part in the #IoVadoAlMuseo initiative, promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, which envisages 20 days of free admission to all Mibac sites in a calendar year. As well as the first Sundays of the month from October to March, and the Museum Week - which in 2019 will span the 5th-10th March - every institute will offer an additional 8 days of free ad …Read more

February 21st at 1pm THE POMPEII AMPHITHEATRE - EXPLOSION STUDIO, A unique explosion event by artist Cai Guo-Qiang leading to February 22nd Opening of asolo exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples IN THE VOLCANO: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii On view from FEBRUARY 22ndto May 20th2019 Press preview 4:30pm Exhibition opening 6:30pm February 21st. An explosion of gunpowder and color sm …Read more

THE LEDA ROOM, AN ELEGANT AND SENSUAL BEDROOM AND THE ATRIUM OF NARCISSUS RE-EMERGE FROM THE SITE OF NEW EXCAVATIONS An elegant and sensual bedroom re-emerges in its entire beauty from the Regio V excavation at Pompeii, whose presence had been predicted when the splendid image of Leda and the Swan was unearthed some months ago, during the consolidation works on the excavation fronts along Via Vesuvio. Behind the room, a part of the dwelling’s atrium was also brought to light, with vividly coloured walls and a fresco of Narcissus at the centre of one of them, in which he sees himself reflected in the water, enraptured by his own image, according to classical iconography. …Read more

February 21st, 12pm THE POMPEII AMPHITHEATRE – “EXPLOSION STUDIO” A unique explosion event by artist Cai Guo-Qiang leading to February 22nd  (Press Preview 4.30 pm)  Opening of a solo exhibition at the MANN “IN THE VOLCANO. Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii” On view from FEBRUARY 22nd to May 20th 2019  An explosion of gunpowder and color smoke in Pompeii’s Amphitheatre to relive the tragic and, at the sam …Read more

Today is the first day at Pompeii for Interim Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Alfonsina Russo, who met the managers and personnel of the various Park offices this morning, accompanied by Mibac Head of Cabinet Tiziana Coccolbuto, Secretary General Giovanni Panebianco and outgoing Director General Massimo Osanna. She was met by Director General of the GPP General CC Mauro Cipolletta …Read more

THE REBIRTH OF THE SCHOLA ARMATURARUM FROM RESTORATION AND EXCAVATION TO ITS RE-OPENING TO THE PUBLIC DEDICATED VISITS, CONDUCTED BY THE RESTORERS, EVERY THURSDAY FROM THE 3RD JANUARY …Read more

A third thoroughbred with an elaborate military harness has been discovered in the stable of Civita Giuliana, as part of the recent excavation campaign. Last March, in the northern zone outside the walls of the archaeological site of Pompeii, a joint operation of the Archaeological Park with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Torre Annunziata(with Chief Prosecutor Alessandro Pennasilico and Deputy …Read more

THE HOUSE OF THE LARGE FOUNTAIN, THE HOUSE OF THE ANCHOR AND THE TEMPLE OF ISIS REOPEN TO THE PUBLIC ON THE 21ST DECEMBER Following restoration and maintenance interventions, the return of finds to their historic locations, the rearrangement of the green areas and research excavations …Read more

PRESS PREVIEW 11 December, 11.30 am Entrance to Piazza Anfiteatro 'Pompeii and the Etruscans' is the major exhibition which will be held at the Large Palaestra in the Excavations of Pompeii, following exhibitions on Egypt in 2016, and on Greece in 2017. The exhibition will seek to address the complex and controversial issue of the 'Campanian Etruria', and of the relationships and and cultural exch …Read more