The National Museum of San Martino is a museum opened to the public in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

in 1866, after the

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, after the

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included among the suppressed ecclesiastical assets, was declared a national monument. By the will of the Neapolitan archaeologist

Giuseppe Fiorelli Giuseppe Fiorelli (7 June 1823 – 28 January 1896) was an Italian archaeologist. His excavations at Pompeii helped preserve the city. Biography Fiorelli was born on 7 June 1823 in Naples. His initial work at Pompeii was completed in 1848. He ...

, the rooms were intended to collect in a museum evidence of the life of Naples and the southern Kingdoms (

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and

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first and the

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after). The museum, which is spread over two levels, is accessed from the two cloisters of the charterhouse. Since December 2014, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities has been managing the museum and charterhouse through the

Campania Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...

museum complex, which in December 2019 became the Regional Directorate for Museums.

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