Sunday of 2018 Card in Naples with free admission libraries

National Library of Naples

Some libraries will be open for free to the public on the occasion of the 2018 Carta Sunday, which will also be held in Naples.

Il Ministry for Heritage and Activities Cultural promotes a new edition of Sunday of 2018 Card, the event that foresees the opening of state libraries and archives around Italy. The initiative will take place Sunday 14 October 2018 and it will also involve two of the most famous libraries of Napoli.

The public will thus be able to enter for free in what are considered real monuments of paper, which constitute an immense heritage preserved in important places of culture. In the Neapolitan capital, it will be possible to access the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library, with the opportunity to admire all the museum areas of the vast structure located in Piazza Plebiscito.

At the same time, the University Library of Naples, with the exhibition that will see as protagonists well 152 small books. Two occasions not to be missed for all those who want to discover the Neapolitan culture through the suggestive means of reading on paper.

Sunday program of 2018 Card in Naples

Vittorio Emanuele III National Library

The National Library will organize several guided tours for the museum areas. Visitors can admire the Library Palatina with many high quality furniture, the Room of Africa with animal collections, the huge Reading Salon and the areas destined for feasts of the Bourbon royals. The Exhibition Hall will host the exhibition entitled "Traveling between books and manuscripts to discover the library funds", while there will also be the permanent exhibition path "The Rooms of the Kings".

University Library of Naples

The exhibition of the University Library it will be titled “Small and necessary. Stories of small-format books ". The protagonists will be 150 small-format books, with manuals, vocabularies, small proverbs and much more. All the printed material comes from the Neapolitan book publisher's collection Raimondo Di Maio.

Information on Sunday of Carta 2018 in Naples

When: Sunday 14 October 2018

Where:

  • Vittorio Emanuele III National Library
  • University Library of Naples

Timetables:

  • Vittorio Emanuele III National Library: from 11.00 to 17.00
  • University Library of Naples: starting from 10.30

Prices: free admission

Info: Official page of the Ministry

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Written by Raffaele Sarnataro
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