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A massive new museum space that will be dedicated to artefacts from Pompeii is under construction in Naples. MANN 2 will be an expansion of the city’s Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), which houses the largest collection of classical archaeology in the world. The new branch will be built in the Real Albergo dei Poveri, an unfinished 18th-century complex around 1.8 kilometres from MANN. Related Pompeii archaeologists uncover tragic final moments of two victims of Mount Vesuvius eruptionA junk dealer in Pompeii keeps a Picasso painting in his living room for 50 years without knowing…