Carrying out a sweeping transformation of the Neapolitan palace-museum and its royal park, its director, Sylvain Bellenger, a Frenchman who spent part of his career in the United States, is implementing an innovative, sustainable and inclusive strategy—a pilot experiment in response to contemporary challenges.
What are, in Capodimonte, the results of the reforms implemented by the Italian Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini? The Minister's idea to reunite the Royal Palace of Capodimonte with its historic park was a first decisive and visionary step in the site’s transformation. In the past, the museum and gardens depended on two different approaches: the first heritage and the other landscape. Today, the palace, the Reggia, former fiefdom of the dynasties ruling the Kingdom of Naples from Charles of Bourbon (r. 1734–1759) to Joachim Murat (r. 1808-1815), which has some 4,700 major works including the prestigious Farnese collection, as well as its 134-hectare (approx. 331 acres) Bosco, Italy’s largest urban park, are now seen in their historical and cultural…
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