After 23 years, the Stabiae Museum becomes a reality

On September 24, 2020, the new Stabiae Archaeological Museum named after Libero D’Orsi will be inaugurated at the Reggia Quisisana in Castellammare di Sta bia, in the presence of MiBACT Minister Dario Franceschini, Museums General Director and Acting Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii Massimo Osanna, and Castellammare di Stabia Mayor Gaetano Cimmino.

The new museum will house the many prestigious artifacts from the Stabia area: "an exhibition of artifacts without equal in Italy: frescoes, floors, stucco, sculptures, terracotta, pottery, bronze and iron objects, some of which are already housed in theAntiquarium, closed to the public since 1997," as Cimmino pointed out on his Facebook profile.

The Archaeological Museum will be inaugurated by an exhibition on the main floor of the Reggia Quisisana: “The exhibition rooms, open on one side to the splendid panoramic terrace and on the other to the historic garden,” the museum headquarters points out, “have been covered with wallpaper that picks up on two famous frescoes from Villa San Marco: the male face of the atrium and the lyre player that adorns one of the rooms facing the lower peristyle. A series of black counterwalls provide the necessary support to hang the heavy panels with frescoes, while showcases with a significant selection of exhibits will be arranged in the rooms.”

Among the masterpieces on display are panels with frescoes from the upper portico of Villa San Marco in particular, belonging mainly to the ceiling decoration found in collapse and later reassembled, such as the fragment depicting a planisphere and the personification of the seasons.

The opening of the Stabiae Museum has been awaited for twenty-three years, as the Antiquarium has been closed since 1997 due to structural problems. Recently the artifacts were displayed in a temporary exhibition, at the Reggia, entitled From Darkness to Light, which remained open to the public until December 31, 2019.

After 23 years, the Stabiae Museum becomes a reality

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