Coral Museum

In the town of Torre del Greco, near Naples, they began to collect and process corals. In 1855, a resident of Torre del Greco, Giovanni Aschione (1834-1908) and ten of his sons, founded a workshop for collecting and processing corals. Products began to be in demand and production expanded, they began to process nacre, shells of tropical seas, semiprecious stones and the like. Already in 1875, the workshop of Giovanni Aschione became the official supplier of coral products for the Italian royal family of the Savoy dynasty .

In the 20th century, enough exhibits accumulated to create the corresponding museum. It is known that at the end of the XIX century (1882) the aristocrat Gaetano Filandzheri, Prince Satriano together with like-minded people, he contributed to the founding and opening of the Museum of Art Industry with the aim of improving the culture of decorative and applied art in Naples and its surroundings, with the aim of streamlining and increasing the production of ceramics, furniture, decorations and the like.

The long history of Aschione's jewelry production has acquired all the attributes of the company and did not cease in the 20th century. In 2001, the Coral Products Museum was established and opened, but located in Naples.

The Coral Products Museum was located in the Umberto I Gallery in the historic district of Santa Brigida, not far from the famous Neapolitan Theater of San Carlo . The museum was given modest, second-floor rooms without any decor, unlike the too lush and pretentious galleries of the era of wild capitalism in Naples.

There are more than 300 products from corals of different colors, products from nacre and semi-precious stones. Exposure calm, business and devoid of excessive pomp.

Expositions are divided into two sections. The first section demonstrates the history of processing of corals and mother of pearl, the tools of the masters of the past, descriptions of the then technologies.

The second section is reserved for finished products in different styles and copies of the most successful Aschіone products. The exposition of the product from the middle of the XIX century to the 1940s .

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