Sorrento is a town rich in history and tradition. Many testimonies of its long history in museums today are enclosed in Sorrento. The two most important museums are the Museum of Sorrento and the Museo Correale di Terranova-workshop of wooden tarsia.

The  Museum Correale di Terranova is on a quiet tree lined street that runs parallel to Italy where you can find some of the major hotels in Sorrento.

Correale Museum is divided into 24 rooms and three sections: archeology, paintings and porcelain.

The  Museum Correale di Terranova is on a quiet tree lined street that runs parallel to Italy where you can find some of the major hotels in Sorrento. Correale Museum is divided into 24 rooms and three sections: archeology, paintings and porcelain.

The  Museum Correale di Terranova is on a quiet tree lined street that runs parallel to Italy where you can find some of the major hotels in Sorrento.

Correale Museum is divided into 24 rooms and three sections: archeology, paintings and porcelain.

The  Museum Correale di Terranova is on a quiet tree lined street that runs parallel to Italy where you can find some of the major hotels in Sorrento. Correale Museum is divided into 24 rooms and three sections: archeology, paintings and porcelain.

In the section we find some important archaeological finds dating to the founding of the Greek city of Sorrento found during various excavations in Sorrento. The pictorial section contains various testimonies of the School of Posillipo, from Pitloo in Gigante. Paintings by foreign landscape from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, as Volaire, Denis, Vervloet, artists who have made a stop in Sorrento during their Grand Tour.

In the room devoted to Flemish painting also a work of Rubens. The section contains wonderful pieces of porcelain instead of ceramic school of Posillipo.
To reach the museum-workshop of wooden inlays of Sorrento is not necessary to go back to Piazza Tasso and proceed towards Via San Cesareo, until the characteristic alley intersects with Via San Nicola.

Here, at number 28 is located on the Museum of inlaid wood. The museum tells the story of one of the oldest traditions of Sorrento, one of inlaid wood. Visitors are shown the techniques of inlay and in the same forum held training courses for young people of Sorrento to keep alive the tradition of the inlaid-wood.

Schedules and information:

Piazza Tasso, Via Correale, Museo Correale di Terranova, Italy Corso, Piazza Tasso, Via S. Cesareo, Museum-workshop of inlaid wood) 

Correale Museum (open: April to October 9.00-12.30, 17.00-19.00, November-March 9.00-12.30, 15.00-17.00, Sundays 9.00-12.30; Tuesday closed - tel. 081/8781846)