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The Museum of the Observatory is everything touris...

The Museum of the Observatory is everything tourists hate about museums in Italy. The information on the website about visiting the museum is not accurate. The bus line listed to the observatory has a typo. The line is c63 from Piazza Dante, not the r63 given on the website. When you get to the stop in front of the Museo di Capodimonte there are road signs to the observatory, but not the museum. When you get to the entry gate, there are still no signs about the museum. The gate guard only speaks Italian and knows nothing about the museum. After he made a few futile phone calls he tells me the museum is closed, even though the website says it is supposed to be open. And so he sends me away and I never got in. I went to the Museo di Capodimonte instead. If you try this visit yourself, be prepared to be turned away, but you can go to the other museum instead so your time is not totally wasted. However, the Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum and not a science museum so you may not be interested in that one, but there is a nice view of the city and the bay of Naples from the grounds. The bus ride from piazza Dante was about 20 minutes. You get to the piazza on metro line 1. I had to wait 40 minutes for a bus to return to the piazza.