Capodimonte's New Porcelain Gallery, Naples 2026: What's in the 16 New Rooms

The Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte inaugurated its new Galleria delle Porcellane on 11 June 2026: 16 rooms on the museum's first floor showing more than 1,500 pieces selected from a collection of roughly 7,000, largely amassed by the Bourbon court. The display, designed by Federico Forquet, moves chronologically through European porcelain — Meissen, Vienna, Sèvres — alongside table services, sculptural groups and pieces from the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea, the royal porcelain manufactory the Bourbons founded on this same hill in the 18th century. The project cost around €1.1 million from the Ministry of Culture, plus more than €700,000 in private patronage.

It's worth distinguishing this from the much smaller Salottino di Porcellana already on the museum's regular route — a single, ornate 18th-century porcelain parlour moved here from the royal palace at Portici. That room stays exactly as it was; the new Galleria delle Porcellane is a separate, far larger wing alongside it, not a replacement.