Museo Filangieri

I’m proud of this museum as someone from Napoli, and I hope they address some issues before my next visit. The collection is excellent, with remarkable pieces from around the world and Gaetano filangieri’s life represented throughout. The highlight for me was his office, with letters exchanged with the United States and Benjamin Franklin himself. The visitor facilities need work. There weren’t enough staff, no information in other languages to help international visitors, and the toilets were poorly maintained. I was also taken aback by a room full of computers and loose electrical wires just behind Filangieri’s desk. With the heat and humidity, does health and safety not matter? We can do better.

A real source of Neapolitan pride. Benjamin Franklin asked Gaetano Filangieri, a Neapolitan jurist, to help write the American Constitution. This wonderful museum holds the draft manuscript as well as their correspondence. I highly recommend visiting.

We lost an afternoon because we’d planned to end our week in Naples with this visit, only to find the door shut even though Google and the museum website said it was open. The museum had been booked privately for a video shoot, which is fine, but visitors should have been told. The communications officer failed to do that. I went back later, and it was worth it. We all really enjoyed the visit.

A fun little museum with interesting things to see, and it’s cheap. You can get around it pretty quickly. A woman there, I think her name was Chiara, knew so much and took us through the individual artworks. She was incredible!