The MANN meets the city to rediscover fundamental pages of Neapolitan history: during the Four Days of Naples, the area of the Museum was the scene of violent fighting between the partisans and the German occupation troops.
During the Second World War, again, it was the Director Amedeo Maiuri (protagonist, however, of the volume "Comics in the Museums", which, in the Mibac project, was dedicated to the Archaeological to avoid the fury of the bombing.

Thus, in various museum spaces, from the famous rooms of the Farnese Collection to the Starry Sky, the Four Days of Naples will be told not only by rediscovering interesting photographic testimonies and archival documents, but, above all, by revealing the faces of the characters who were the souls of those struggles: alongside the great heroes of the classical tradition, there will be the figures of men, women and children, who waged their own courageous battle in the name of freedom.

In the exhibition itinerary, there will be many in-depth windows on the milieu that characterized the years of the Second World War in Naples: in synergy with the Regional Directorate of the Fire Brigade for Campania, an ad hoc space entitled to "Heroes by profession" will be provided, who, already in the 1940s, were willing to put their lives at risk out of respect for their spirit of service; again, a section dedicated to toys, coming from the historical collection by prof. Enzo Capuano, will reveal how the terms of propaganda and opposition could also insinuate themselves, at the time, in everyday objects designed for the little ones.

“With the exhibition Hercules goes to war, the Museum continues its path of opening up to the city: this almost osmotic process is grafted, first and foremost, into the desire to rediscover and reread our past with awareness. The effective collaboration between the institutions was a necessary prerequisite to support our process of scientific research and dissemination of contents ”, declares the Director of the MANN, Paolo Giulierini.