A Night at the Museum: Pompeii and Herculaneum

Also Pompeii and Herculaneum join to the event "A Night in the Museum" promoted by the Ministry of the Cultural Goods and Activities and of the Tourism. The last Saturdays of July, August and September it will be possible to take part in visit runs on purpose predisposed by the Special Superintendence for the Archaeological Goods in Naples and Pompeii to illustrate the life and the death in the two main Vesuvius archaeological sites. The first appointment is on Saturday July 27th, the second one on Saturday August 31st and the last one on Saturday September 28th 2013.

In Pompeii, with departure from Porta Marina, the run will develop along the external road to the archaeological area which coasts the surrounded building, the venus temple and the Imperial Vill, to end at the Auditorium of Esedra Square. The experts of the Superintendence will illustrate to the visitors the main aspects of the ancient Pompeii life and society (the Spa and the leisure time, the temples and the religious architecture, the commerce and the economic activities). Along the run, conducted and fascinated by the story of the guides, a tape will be projected which will illustrate the main phases of the eruption which destroyed the city and the two letters of Plinio the Young which, with dramatic precision, describes it, will be read. Finally, in the Auditorium of Esedra Square some calcs of the eruption victims corpses with the illustration of the technique that allows to get them.

The Pompeii visit is possible just on booking (phoning from 9.30 a.m. till 3.30 p.m. at the number 0818575327) for groups of at most 35 visitors from 8.00 p.m. till 11.15 p.m. (last entry at the 10.30 p.m.). The cost of the ticket is EUR 5,50 (free for people younger than 18 years old and for the eldest than 65 years old previous exhibition of a valid identity document at the box-office). The entrance is from superior Porta Marina, via Villa dei Misteri 2.

Decidedly interesting is also the run in Herculaneum. To welcome the visitors there will be, at the box-office, an interactive installation with projection of the images of the mosaics with sea theme, while in the room lecture will be projected the tape in 3D on the eruption of the Vesuvius, produced by the MAV with the collaboration of the National
Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. Both the installations have been realized with the collaboration and the generous contribution of the Foundation Cives. The run goes on in the tent of the boat where it will be possible to admire the boat of Roman epoch found again at the beginning of the eighties of the last century and other finds tied to the sea activities.

The Herculaneum visit doesn't ask for booking and it will be possible from 8.00 p.m. till 11.15 p.m. (last entry at 10.45 p.m.).The cost of the ticket is EUR 5,50 (free for people younger than 18 years old and for the eldest than 65 years ald previous exhibition of a valid identity document at the box-office). Entrance from Corso Resina and from Via dei Papiri Ercolanesi.