Chieti, citizenship income recipients will be employed to reopen the National Museums

The problem of the closure of Chieti’s national museums has been solved with a buffer-solution: as we reported on these pages, in fact, the Abruzzo Regional Directorate of Museums, to which several museums and sites belong, is in great difficulty due to staff shortages and, as a result of the reopenings of the museums, it still had to keep most of the institutes closed, including the two main ones, namely the National Museum of Villa Frigerj and the National Museum of the Civitella in Chieti.

The reopening of the two Teatini museums for June 15 was announced by the deputy mayor of Chieti, Paolo De Cesare, and the regional director of the dAbruzzo Museums, Mariastella Margozzi: “We are pleased to be able to put on paper the solution that will allow the reopening from June 15 next, returning to the city and regional usability two museums of great value and importance. The lack of turnover in the organization, complicated by the vicissitudes brought by the pandemic, see undersized staff assigned to the two realities and therefore impossible to ensure the presence of the 4 custodians required by law for the entire rotation of each of the museums. With the 10 staff units present until now, it was therefore not possible to open, but in the face of the municipal administration’s commitment to find a solution that would restore the full usability of the two national archaeological museums, it will be possible to remedy this situation, until national and regional competitions are completed and new staff is guaranteed by the Ministry.”

The solution? Twelve citizenship income recipients working within the framework of the “Projects Useful to the Community” (PUC) reserved for them will be employed. “With the intervention of the municipality,” said De Cesare and Margozzi, “we managed to sign an agreement whereby the Administration will provide 12 PUC units to assist and support the museums’ staff and guarantee opening hours and, finally, at this important moment of recovery and return to life, Villa Frigerj and La Civitella, with their priceless heritage, will also be able to be visited again.” The date of June 15, De Cesare said, “is also dictated by the need to ensure not only the formalization of the employment of citizenship income recipients by the relevant municipal offices, but also the necessary union negotiations, so as to proceed expeditiously and in compliance with all the requirements. In addition, for La Civitella, with director Marcello Iannicca, we have identified a modality that will make it possible to carry out the required maintenance work in some areas not affected by the exhibitions, which in these weeks will be carried out without interfering with, or affecting, public visits. This is from the technical point of view, but always giving voice and body to a lasting understanding between entities, with the Marrucino Theater Deputation and in the wake of what was done last year, we are proceeding with an agreement for the revitalization of the external structure as well, both the theater and the archaeological park, where to put in place already this summer an important programming, thinking, however, also next year, with the idea of bringing back into activity also the Stellario for events dedicated to the youngest.”

De Cesare and Margozzi also let it be known that the Municipality is working on “quality summer programming” for the Amphitheater: “with the management we are also concerting the solution of other problems related to the spaces in which to carry out representative and administrative activities, with the full willingness of the Municipality to find among its properties suitable premises. The intention is to want to host at the center of cultural and political life and the interests of the community the Mic Institute responsible for the protection and enhancement of the city’s cultural heritage museum whose operation would go to tighten even more the already strong communion of purpose between entities in favor of the cultural revival of the City. There are already hypotheses on which we are working and whose feasibility will be verified in the coming days with meetings and inspections, as well as the possibility of reactivating the bar serving the facilities will also be explored. It is an important milestone not only for the city, but for lAbruzzo, which thus returns to having a wide and complete cultural offer, with the newfound operability of two of the most prestigious and valuable museums of the entire country’s heritage.”

“The understanding,” explains Chieti Mayor Diego Ferrara, “concretizes a commitment made by our Administration right from the start. Culture will be one of the themes of the city’s rebirth, as well as a driving force for our territory, which can boast presence and history and regain a new centrality on the national scene. For this reason, the institutional chain has already been activated, reaching the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Dario Franceschini, so that with the completion of the competitions for museum staff, a definitive solution will be found as soon as possible to the problems that ours and also all the other national museums are experiencing because of staffing levels. Together with all the institutions of the territory, we will work with full willingness and energy to restore to Chieti the importance it deserves as a seat of exceptional cultural and artistic presences and a destination for tourism capable of combining the beauty of the environment with its millennial history.”

In the photo: the Civitella Museum in Chieti

Chieti, citizenship income recipients will be employed to reopen the National Museums

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