Jago Museum

Jago Museum tickets: a guided visit at a set time

Your ticket is for a day and a time, and the visit begins with a guide taking you round the works; after that you can stay on and look by yourself. Ours costs €10, and its listing puts the guided visit at 25 minutes. Be there 15 minutes before your slot to have the ticket checked. If you’re running late, the staff will put you in the next group when there’s room, and you can cancel up to 24 hours ahead.

The visits are given in English and Italian. Children under 6 go free, and there are lower prices at checkout for 6 to 17-year-olds, over-65s and students, and for anyone holding a ticket from the Catacombs of Naples. The museum has announced that it will be closed from 3 to 12 November, so pick a date outside those days. No card we sell covers it.

The Veiled Son, in a chapel ten minutes away

Jago’s Veiled Son isn’t in the museum. It’s in the Cappella dei Bianchi, in the Basilica of San Severo fuori le mura, about ten minutes away on foot: a child carved in Danby marble from Vermont, lying on a slab under a veil. Jago carved it in New York, it has lain here since 2019, and it takes its cue from the Veiled Christ in the Sansevero Chapel.

For the chapel, the guided visit to the Veiled Son costs €10. The chapel opens only from 10:00 to 14:00, so to see both, make it a morning.

Inside Sant’Aspreno: Jago’s sculpture in a baroque church

The church is still consecrated, and the sculptures stand in it along a route that was redone when it reopened in November 2025, with a new work added. Among the pieces you meet are Self (2019), a self-portrait in Danby marble; Apparato circolatorio (2017), thirty hearts; Ego Laurentius, the artist’s arm; a Pietà (2021); and a David in plaster (2021) who is a woman.

Integration, in black and white marble, has a story of its own. It was called Italian Marble when Jago made it in 2022, spent a month aboard the rescue ship Ocean Viking and was vandalised several times on the Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome before being repaired with white marble, and in March 2025 the museum announced it would join the collection.

Jago himself, born in Lazio, decided in 2019, after the Veiled Son, to live and work in the Sanità. He has since moved his studio elsewhere, so you won’t find him at work here.

Planning your morning at the Jago Museum

Photos are allowed, without flash or bulky equipment, and dogs on a lead are welcome. There’s no cloakroom, only a small space for pushchairs and a little luggage, and there are toilets inside. If you use a wheelchair, write to prenotazioni@jagomuseum.it before you go, so they can arrange your visit.

How a closed church became the Jago Museum

Sant’Aspreno was built in 1633 and dedicated to the first bishop of Naples. After the “lava dei Vergini”, a flood of water and mud that swept through the district, it was rebuilt in the 18th century, on a Latin-cross plan of 1760 by Bartolomeo and Luca Vecchione, partners of Luigi Vanvitelli, the architect of the Royal Palace of Caserta.

Then it stood empty for forty years, until the museum opened on 20 May 2023 with 4,000 people at the opening. It’s run by La Paranza, the Sanità cooperative of Father Antonio Loffredo, the same people behind the Catacombs of San Gennaro.

Finding the Jago Museum in the Rione Sanità

The nearest metro stations to Piazzetta Crociferi 4 are Museo, on line 1, and Cavour, on line 2. The Catacombs of San Gennaro and San Gaudioso are in the same district, and their ticket gets you the reduced price here.