Naples - December 31, 2011 - Archaeological Museum

The archaeological museum is a must see. An absolutely unparalleled  collection of Roman artifacts, sculpture, painting and everyday household objects, silver, glassware, bronze.

Almost everything that was removed from Pompeii ended up here along with some gigantic statues from Rome as well.   There are hardly words to describe the collection.  If you travel to Naples and do not go to this museum you fail at life.

The building is quite something in and of itself. Built in the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century as a cavalry barracks, it was for a time used as part of the University of Naples.