Diocesan Museum (Naples)
The Diocesan Museum is the museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Naples, displaying paintings, reliquaries and bronzes previously housed in the Archepiscopal Palace, closed and suppressed churches in the Diocese or churches where it is too risky to display artworks. The paintings are mainly from the Neapolitan School, including works by Luca Giordano, Francesco Solimena, Massimo Stanzione, Aniello Falcone and Andrea Vaccaro.
It was originally housed in the Archepiscopal Palace but due to an iniative by cardinal-archbishop Crescenzio Sepe it re-opened in the rooms behind the chancel of Santa Donna Regina Nuova and on a new mezzanine floor above the side chapels of its nave on 23 October 2007. The rooms above the side chapels are organised thematically, with a room each for the Passion of Christ, the Seven Sacraments, Martyrdom, the Life of Priests, Monks and Mendicants and the Seven Works of Pity. Other rooms house objets-d'art, such as two bronzes of St Candida of Naples and St Maximus by Giovan Domenico Vinaccia from Naples Cathedral, reliquaries, vestments and sculptures in wood and stone.
Visitors can also see the neighbouring Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia, although this does not display any artworks from the collection. Santa Donna Regina Nuova belongs to the Ministry of the Interior's "Collection of religious buildings", whilst the City of Naples owns Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia. The museum is managed by the Archdiocese and supervised by the Soprintendenza al polo museale di Napoli.
Floor plan
Collections
Paintings
Sculptures
| Image | Title | Artist | Room | Originally from |
| - | Crucifixion | Unknown, 14th century | Passage to the warming room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia |
| Guardian Angel | Nicola Fumo | Warming Room | San Giovanni Battista delle Monache | |
| - | St Joseph and the Christ Child | Nicola Fumo | Warming Room | San Giovanni Battista delle Monache |
| - | St Michael the Archangel | Nicola Fumo | Warming Room | San Giovanni Battista delle Monache |
| St Nicolas of Bari | Nicola Fumo | Warming Room | San Giovanni Battista delle Monache | |
| Giovan Battista Loffredo | Girolamo D'Auria | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| Effigies | School of Girolamo D'Auria | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| Tondo of the Madonna and Child | Tommaso Malvito and workshop | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| Tondo of the Madonna and Child | Girolamo D'Auria and workshop | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| - | Tondo of St Anne and the Virgin Mary as a Child | Unknown, Naples, 18th century | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia |
| Funerary Monument of Carlo Loffredo | Girolamo D'Auria and workshop | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| Funerary Monument of Cesare Loffredo | Girolamo D'Auria and workshop | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| Ippolita Brancaccio | Girolamo D'Auria and workshop | Warming Room | Santa Maria Donnaregina Vecchia | |
| Immaculate Conception | Nicola Ingaldo | Retro-altar | Naples Cathedral | |
| Saint Paul | Giovan Domenico Vinaccia | Passage to the ante-sacristy | Naples Cathedral | |
| Carved wooden reliefs of St Augustine and St Thomas of Villanova | Giuseppe Picano | Religious Life Room | Sant'Agostino alla Zecca | |
| - | Fragment of a pluteus with griffins in marble | Unknown, Campania, early 11th century | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Fragment of a marble sarcophagus | Unknown, 200-400 | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Front of a marble sarcophagus | Unknown, Naples, mid 14th century | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Altar front or pluteus in marble | Unknown, Campania, late 9th or early 10th century | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral |
| Coat of arms of Forcella in marble; | Unknown, Naples, 16th century | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral | |
| - | Head of the Christ Child on a fragment of a marble and stone bust | Unknown, Campania, 15th century | Lapidarium | Santissima Annunziata Maggiore |
| - | Head of the Virgin Mary in stone | Unknown, Campania, 15th century | Lapidarium | Santissima Annunziata Maggiore |
| - | Cinerary urn in marble | Unknown, 1st century | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Reliquary vase in marble | Unknown | Lapidarium | Naples Cathedral |
| - | St Francis Xavier Converting the Native Americans, in carved and painted wood | Unknown, Naples, c.1820 | Wooden Sculptures Room | Archepiscopal Palace |
| - | St Joseph with the Christ Child in carved and painted wood | Collaborator of Giacomo Colombo, c.1730 | Wooden Sculptures Room | Archepiscopal Palace |
| Head from a Crucifix in carved and painted wood | Unknown, late 15th century | Wooden Sculptures Room | Basilica dell'Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio |
Metalwork and reliquaries
| Image | Title | Artist | Room | Originally from |
| - | Altar cross in silver | Unknown, mid 18th century | Hallway | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Pitcher and basin in silver | Luigi De Michelis | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Archepiscopal Palace |
| - | Pitcher and basin in gilded silver | Various, 18th century | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Chalice in silver and sapphires | Unknown, Naples, 1750-1775 | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Archepiscopal Palace |
| Copy of a reliquary in silver and wood | Unknown, mid 18th century | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Archepiscopal Palace | |
| Monstrance in silver | Unknown, Naples, pre- 1754 | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral | |
| - | Cooking service in gilded silver | Giacinto Buonacquisto | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral |
| - | Pyx in silver, gold and sapphires | Unknown, late 18th century | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral |
| Bust of St Maximus in silver | Giovan Domenico Vinaccia | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral | |
| Bust of St Candida of Naples in silver | Giovan Domenico Vinaccia | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral | |
| Cross-shaped reliquary of St Leonzius | Unknown, Palermo, Naples or southern Italy, 1150-1200, 1200-1299 and 1450-1499 | Precious Objects and Reliquaries Room | Naples Cathedral | |
| Reliquary bust of St Restituta in wood, gold and paint | Unknown, Naples, 1600-1650 | Wooden Sculptures Room | Santa Restituta | |
| St Lucy | Unknown, Naples, 1600-1650 | Wooden Sculptures Room | Sant'Agostino alla Zecca | |
| St Apollonia in wood | Unknown, Naples, early 17th century | Wooden Sculptures Room | Sant'Agostino alla Zecca |