Filangieri Museum

The Filangieri Museum, located in Naples’ Renaissance Palazzo Como, showcases art collections of Gaetano Filangieri, including paintings, sculptures, and a library.

Planning your visit

The Filangieri is a small Naples museum with an outsized backstory. Prince Gaetano Filangieri assembled the collection and gave it to the city in 1888, installing it in the fifteenth-century Palazzo Como — a Renaissance palace that had been moved, stone by stone, some twenty metres back from the street when Naples was rebuilt in the 1880s. The collection covers applied and decorative arts above all: arms and armour, porcelain, majolica, furniture, paintings, sculpture, and a substantial library of early books.

The building was bombed and burned in 1943, and much of the original holding was destroyed or looted, so what survives is partial. That history is present in the museum, and it is part of what makes it affecting rather than merely pretty.

It sits on Via Duomo in the historic centre, close to the cathedral, and is quiet — this is a museum most visitors to Naples never reach, which is much of its charm.

Bookable options include formats built around the San Gennaro experience — the cathedral, the treasure chapel of the city's patron saint, whose blood liquefaction three times a year remains central to Neapolitan identity — with the Filangieri available as an add-on. Current options are listed below.