I for the life of me can't find a recent answer. They seem to move around.
I'm in Naples and would like to see the plaster casts of the bodies of the Pompeii victims (morbid, but it helps me understand).
Where around Naples or Pompeii would I be able to go to see them?
They are in the museum at Pompeii. The museum is well worth a visit when you are in Pompeii.
May have been my faulty mis-remembering, but in addition to the Archeological Museum in Naples, one time at least I recall seeing some laid out, maybe stored, in a fenced off building at the site, but that would have been years ago.
@Paul “May have been my faulty mis-remembering, but in addition to the Archeological Museum in Naples, one time at least I recall seeing some laid out, maybe stored, in a fenced off building at the site, but that would have been years ago.”
That was years ago. We were in Pompeii last year and the plaster casts are now in the museum.
A few of Giuseppe Fiorelli’s original casts still are reportedly at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, where presumably they are on display. Because they were made beginning back in 1863, 86 of the 103 casts are either being moved to, or already have been moved to an on-site laboratory at the Pompeii ruins where they are undergoing conservation work, according to an article published earlier this year in Archaeology magazine.
We saw 3 of them encased in glass at the Pompeii site
Same as Derek
2019
I saw them on two previous trips at the site, but my last trip in February 2023, I did not see them at the site nor the museum. Sorry that doesn’t help.
There are several areas within Pompeii to find them, the most dramatic we saw were in an area called the Garden of the Fugitives in sector 1.
