A visit to the Museum arouses great interest and attention in those who are passionate about paintings and those who are lovers of decorative and archaeological objects of art: the museum documents the ancient historical roots of the city of Sorrento. This aside, the collection of pieces of furniture and caskets made from rare and exotic wood, give testimony to the typical local craftsmanship, that, especially in the nineteenth century, reached notable levels of technical virtuosity.
The collection of paintings range from the XV to the XIX centuries, the nucleus constituted by the collection of still life from the Neapolitan school of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries and from the outstanding group of landscapes from the Posillipo school - two irreplaceable sources for the deepening of studies on these splendid moments taken from southern figurative civilization.
But the Correale shines even more because it holds the precious jewels that once adorned the various abodes of noble families: cabinets veneered of ebony or turtle, valuable products of Neapolitan ebony from the seventeenth century, eighteenth century chests enriched with settings of gilded bronze and shelves of marble; precious pieces of chinoiserie furniture of English manufacture from the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and French, German and Swiss watches mounted in gilded bronze and inlaid with mother of pearl and hard stones; Murano glass, Bohemian crystal, fabrics, majolica and porcelain. The ceramic collection includes a conspicuous sample of rare examples from the best known Italian and foreign factories: from Abruzzesi majolica of Grue to those French from Marseilles, and from the white Chinese porcelains to the blue German ones, amongst which emerge the group manufactured in Meissen, from those French from Saint-Cloud and Sèvres to those English from Bow and Chelsea.
But it is the nucleus of the Neapolitan porcelains that put the flower in the buttonhole of this harvest, in how much it enumerates rare examples from the Capodimonte manufacture and precious articles of porcelain, painted and gilded at the Real Factory of Naples, as well as Giustiniani pottery in earthenware from the first decades of the XIX century.
Finally, the Museum exhibits of one of the most important specialist libraries of importance.
 
Filippo Merola - Direttore del Museo Correale