Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum
Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum is a museum in Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania which is located on Via Quattro Novembre. Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum is situated nearby to the archaeological site College of the Augustales, as well as near Villa of the Papyri.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Italy
- Also known as: “Mav - Museo Archeologico Virtuale”, “MAV Museo Archeologico Virtuale di Ercolano”, and “Museo archeologico virtuale”
- Address: Via Quattro Novembre 44, Ercolano
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Herculaneum and Villa of the Papyri.
Herculaneum
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Herculaneum is a town close to Naples in Campania, Italy. It is named after the ruined Roman city which forms its main attraction. Herculaneum was destroyed by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79, the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii.
Villa of the Papyri
Archaeological site
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The Villa of the Papyri was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy. It is named after its unique library of papyri scrolls, discovered in 1750. Villa of the Papyri is situated 450 metres west of Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum.
College of the Augustales
Archaeological site
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College of the Augustales is an archaeological site, which is situated 220 metres west of Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ercolano and Portici.
Ercolano
Town
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ercolano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania of Southern Italy. It lies at the western foot of Mount Vesuvius, on the Bay of Naples, just southeast of the city of Naples.
Portici
Town
Photo: Ferdinando Scala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portici is a town and municipality of the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in Italy. It has 51,351 inhabitants.
Torre del Greco
Town
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Torre del Greco is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in Italy, with a population of c. 85,000 as of 2016. The locals are sometimes called Corallini because of the once plentiful coral in the nearby sea, and because the city has been a major producer of coral jewellery and cameo brooches since the seventeenth century. Torre del Greco is situated 2½ km southeast of Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum.
Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum
- Categories: archaeological museum, technology museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.80725° or 40° 48′ 26″ northLongitude
14.35039° or 14° 21′ 1″ eastElevation
46 metres (151 feet)Open location code
8FGPR942+V5OpenStreetMap ID
way 309268120OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumGeoNames ID
10629041Wikidata ID
Q16336132
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In Other Languages
From French to Italian—“Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum” goes by many names.
- French: “Musée archéologique virtuel d’Herculanum”
- French: “Museo archeologico virtuale”
- German: “Museo archeologico virtuale”
- German: “Virtuelles Archäologiemuseum von Herculaneum”
- Italian: “MAV - Museo Archeologico Virtuale”
- Italian: “MAV”
- Italian: “Museo archeologico virtuale”
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