National Railway Museum Pietrarsa
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| place | Traversa Pietrarsa, Naples 
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| opening | 1989 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 150,000 (2018) |
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Fondazione FS Italiane
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The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa ( Italian Museo nazionale ferroviario di Pietrarsa ) is the central railway museum of Italy .
location
The museum is located on the southern outskirts of Naples , in the San Giovanni a Teduccio district on the border with the neighboring communities of San Giorgio a Cremano and Portici , directly at the Pietrarsa-S stop . Giorgio a Cremano on the Naples – Portici - Salerno railway , the first railway line in Italy , which opened on October 3, 1839. It is connected to the train station by an underpass .
Place of issue
The exhibition venue is the well-preserved early industrial complex of the former Royal Bourbon Factory of Pietrarsa , founded in 1840 under Ferdinand II , initially as an ironworks, later as a locomotive factory and training center for naval officers and civil engineers. It should serve to reduce the dependence on imports from England in the technical sector. Among other things, the plant is to be a model for the locomotive factory Kronstadt under Tsar Nicholas I have been. A statue of King Ferdinand II on the site also testifies to this time . It is said to be one of the largest cast iron statues in the world.
After the Italian unification in 1860, the facility was gradually converted into a railway repair shop for major repairs on steam locomotives until 1885 . The importance of the repair shop decreased with the progressive electrification of the Italian railways since 1930 and the use of vehicles with diesel engines from 1950 onwards. In 1975 the plant was finally closed.
history
In 1977, the board of directors of the Italian State Railways approved the proposal to convert the closed repair shop into a railway museum. The renovation work began in 1980 and was completed in 1989, so that the Italian National Railway Museum could be opened to the public on the 150th anniversary of the opening of the first Italian railway line. In 2001 the museum was closed for the first time for renovation work and reopened at the end of 2007. In 2014 the area was badly affected by a windpipe, which made further closings necessary. In the same year, the Foundation of the Italian State Railways took over the operation of the museum and presented a renovation plan worth 15 million euros for the area. In 2017, the newly designed museum was fully reopened.
The historic production and maintenance halls are ideal for showing rail vehicles . In the main hall with an area of around 36,000 m², 30 locomotives and a 1: 1 replica of the first Italian train will be shown.
exhibition
The exhibition is very locomotive-heavy. In addition, some passenger coaches are on display. Outstanding is a saloon car from the train, which was built on the occasion of the wedding of King Umberto II and Marie José of Belgium in 1929. This car was last used by the Presidents of the Italian Republic and was given to the museum by President Francesco Cossiga in 1989. In addition to the original vehicles, a small collection of models is shown. There is also a historical model railway system on display.
While the history of the ensemble of buildings in which the museum is located is adequately explained by appropriate explanatory texts, there is almost no explanation for the exhibits. While the collection primarily relies on locomotives and secondarily on other railroad vehicles, there are no references to the development of the railways in Italy, to cultural-historical aspects of the railway journey or any didactic analysis of the exhibits.
gallery
King Ferdinand II statue
Factory plates of the replica of the first Italian railway train
Italian king's chariot: takeover by the republic
Model collection
literature
- Centro Relazioni Aziendali FS (ed.): Da Pietrarsa e Granili a Santa Maria La Bruna. Naples / Rome 1971.
- Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Napoli Pietrarsa. Riuso musealistico delle antiche officine borboniche. Ferrovie dello Stato, Rome 1982.
- Since Pietrarsa a Pietrarsa. Storia e immagini del treno italiano. Rome 1990.
- A. Tanzillo (Ed.): Il Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa. (see l. e sd).
- Gian Guido Turchi: 150 anni e un museo. In: iTreni 99, 1989.
Web links
- museodipietrarsa.it
- ilmondodeitreni.it (description and images)
Individual evidence
- ^ Fondazione FS, Direttore Cantamessa a TLB see Museo Pietrarsa e Treni Storici. quifinanza.it, December 20, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ Maltempo, ingenti danni al museo di ferroviario Pietrarsa. adnkronos.com, June 18, 2014, accessed August 26, 2019 (Italian).
- ^ Il progetto della Fondazione FS. museopietrarsa.it, accessed August 26, 2019 (Italian).