With Zuchtriegel, Pompeii managed according to unscientific criteria? The letter from the 112

We receive and publish a document signed by 112 archaeologists, architects and art historians regarding the appointment of Gabriel Zuchtriegel as director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, after publishing yesterday’s editorial with the position of our editor Federico Giannini. Below is the text and the list of signatories.

"The resignation of Irene Bragantini and Stefano De Caro from the Scientific Committee of the Pompeii Archaeological Park brings to attention a fundamental problem, incident to the management of Italy’s cultural heritage. Two of the foremost experts on ancient Pompeii do not agree to share the ministerial choice of the new Park Director: as such, they do not seem to recognize scientific competence that would justify the appointment, regardless of age. Bragantini and De Caro seem to foresee that the Park, given the premise, will in the future be managed not according to scientific, and therefore cultural, criteria, but only with criteria aimed at increasing economic profit, visitor numbers, and easy consensus. It would be up to the Scientific Committee alone to ensure a semblance of scientific coverage. Yet, it is a noble Italian tradition that the administration of Cultural Heritage has, until a few years ago, been accompanied by enlightened and strict scientific research. How can one administer if one does not know what one is administering? Not a few have been those in charge of superintendencies who have also become university professors and members of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. In the climate of renewed seriousness that is reportedly characterizing the Draghi government, it would be most appropriate to return the management of Italy’s Cultural Heritage to traditional competence, abandoning its unheard-of corporate and monetary management.

In particular, it would be essential that the appointment of the directors of autonomous museums and archaeological parks be by regular competition and not by fiduciary appointment by the minister on the basis of the proposal of questionable ’terns’ of names."

Signatories:

Archangel ALESSIO
Giovanna ALVINO
Giovanna Maria BACCI
Gaspare BAGGIERI
Gabriele BALDELLI
Maria Adelia BERNABO’ BREA
Salvatore WHITE
Maria BONGHI JOVINO
Francesca BULGARELLI
Rosalia CAMERATA SCOVAZZO
Franco CAMPUS
Daniela CANDILIO
Annamaria CARINI
Giuliana CAVALIERI MANASSE
Anna CERESA MORI
Gloria CERQUETTI
Cristina CHIARAMONTE TRERE’
Federica CHIESA
Giuseppina Carlotta CIANFERONI
Filippo COARELLI
Assunta COCCHIARO
Federica CORDANO
Caterina CORNELIO
Marisa CURRENT
Giovanna DAMIANI
Bruno d’AGOSTINO
Luca DE BERNARDI
Antonietta DELL’AGLIO
Angiolo DEL LUCCHESE
Filippo DELPINO
Giovanna DE PALMA
Angela DEMONTIS PHOENIX
Vincenzo D’ERCOLE
Laura D’ERME
Antonio DE SIENA
Francesco DI GENNARO
Giuseppe DI MARTINO
Anna Maria DOLCIOTTI
Rubens D’ORIANO
Annamaria ESPOSITO
Maria FENELLI
Maria Grazia FIORE
Maria FORTUNATI
Luigi FOZZATI
Massimo FRASCA
Alessandra FRONDONI
Giovanna GAMBACURTA
Sandra GATTI
Lucia GERVASINI
Giuseppina GHINI
Constance GIALANELLA
Stefano GIZZI
Maria Pia GUERMANDI
Pier Giovanni GUZZO
Vincenzo IBBA
Rosanina INVERNIZZI
Luciana JACOBELLI
Stefania JORIO
Donato LABATE
Teresa LEONE
Mario LIOTTI
Alberto MAFFI
Roberto MAGGI
Luigi MALNATI
Elisabetta MANGANI
Maria Rosaria MANUNZA
Mirella MARINI CALVANI
Maddalena MARSELLI
Franca MASELLI SCOTTI
Francoise-Félène MASSA PAIRAULT
Bruno MASSABO’
Valeria MARIOTTI
Gian Piero MARTINO
Piera MELLI
Elena Maria MENOTTI
Maurizio MICHELUCCI
Paola MINIERO
Donatella MUREDDU
Rita PARIS
Carlo PAVOLINI
Emanuela PARIBENI
Carlo PAVOLINI
Anna PAU
Paola PELAGATTI
Maurizio PELLEGRINI
Paola PERAZZI
Raffaella POGGIANI KELLER
Francesca RADINA
Rossella REA ULTIMO
Anna Maria REGGIANI
Marisa RIGONI
Daniele RIZZO
Filli ROSSI
Mariangela RUTA SERAFINI
Valeria SANPAOLO
Antonio Battista SANGINETO
Claudia SCARDAZZA
Mara SILVESTRINI
Giuseppina SPADEA
Roberto SPADEA
Giuseppina SPAGNOLO
Maria SPANEDDA
Umberto SPIGO
Marialuisa STOPPIONI
Armando TALIANO GRASSO
Tommaso TEDESCO
Margherita TIRELLI
Edoardo TORTORICI
Carlo TRONCHETTI
Luisanna USAI
Serena VITRI
Annalisa ZARATTINI

With Zuchtriegel, Pompeii managed according to unscientific criteria? The letter from the 112

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