The Santa Chiara Museum is a museum in Naples located in the fourteenth-century monastery of the same name.
The museum was born in 1995 with the function of reconstructing the history of the factory of the church of Santa Chiara, considered one of the major buildings of Gothic art in Naples.
The museum of the Opera di Santa Chiara preserves works already from the monastery, or from other Franciscan convents in the city suppressed in the nineteenth century, or fragments of monuments once present in the basilica and then severely damaged during the Allied bombings. It consists of several sections:
- Hall of archeology;
- Hall of History;
- Hall of relics;
- Hall of the marbles.
The museum circuit of the Opera also includes:
- the cloisters of Santa Chiara, with the famous majolica cloister of the Clarisse;
- archaeological area below the basilica;
- the sacristy and the choir of the nuns of the basilica of Santa Chiara.
The archaeological excavations of Santa Chiara are an archaeological site of Naples, located within the monastic complex of Santa Chiara.
Part of the circuit of the Opera di Santa Chiara museum, the site is to be considered the largest thermal complex found in Naples.
The baths that were found below the floor of the church and are thought to have been operational at least until the fourth century. The site is divided into two sectors: one with a gym and swimming pool and another spa.
The gymnasium shows the back wall of the same, while the swimming pool consists of the quay with the access steps to the pool, another minor octagonal pool dated between the third and fifth centuries and a complex system of canalization and disposal of water to feed the thermal baths and the surrounding area.
The thermal part is divided into a natatio (rectangular basin) covered with waterproof plaster, a tepidarium or perhaps calidarium (another smaller quadrangular shaped basin), a laconicum (service facility) and a nymphaeum or frigidarium further north.
The finds found on the site are finally exhibited in the Archeology room of the Opera di Santa Chiara museum.
Archaeological excavations, Santa Chiara Museum - Virtual Tour 360°
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