Massimo Bernardi is the new director of MUSE - Trento's Museum of Science

Appointed the new director of MUSE - Science Museum of Trento: he is Massimo Bernardi. The appointment was formalized today with a measure of the Provincial Council signed by President Maurizio Fugatti, at the conclusion of a selection procedure launched last May. 40 years old, from Trentino, Bernardi graduated from Padua University and received his Ph.D. from Bristol (UK); he is currently a university lecturer in Scientific Communication at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and previously of other disciplines in the natural sciences at the Universities of Padua and Milan. During his career he has numerous international (in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Panama), national and local collaborations, particularly in the regional museum system. Component of the Fauna Observatory of the Autonomous Province of Trento, since 2021 at the head of the Research and Museum Collections Office of MUSE. A former conservation officer for paleontology, curator of numerous exhibition projects and technician of the paleontological collections at the Museum of Natural Sciences of South Tyrol, Massimo Bernardi has participated in ministerial working groups for the reactivation of protection instruments for paleontological properties and is a member of several academic colleges and committees; he is also the author of scientific publications in the fields of museology and anthropocene, heritage conservation and enhancement, biology, paleontology, and macroevolution, as well as contributions to popular and educational publishing.

“It is a great honor, as well as a deep joy, to receive the confidence of President Maurizio Fugatti, Vice President Francesca Gerosa and the entire Provincial Council. With gratitude and enthusiasm I begin this new experience, willing to make the museum increasingly relevant to all citizens, institutions and the vast network of public and private stakeholders for whom and thanks to whom we exist,” said the newly appointed director. “MUSE is composed of an exceptional staff: my first thought is of them and the desire to build this new course together.”

“A prestigious appointment,” congratulated Vice President and Councillor for Culture Francesca Gerosa, “conferred at the end of a path that saw the participation of 26 candidates, which made it possible to identify the best skills for the management of one of the most important museums on the Trentino and national scene.”

“We place the utmost trust in director Bernardi, to whom we extend our best wishes as he embarks on this new professional challenge,” Fugatti and Gerosa commented. “I hope that with this year’s museum renewal, which saw the appointment of the new president Prof. Stefano Bruno Galli and now the new director,” added Gerosa, “MUSE can experience a new season of great success.”

Bernardi’s appointment is the result of a final selection process that narrowed the number of candidates to four. All were required to have professional experience with performing management functions in public administrations or in public or private companies for at least five years and a curriculum vitae, accompanied by scientific publications, that attested to experience in managing relations with the national and international scientific and museum community, as well as having worked with tools and methods of scientific research on the themes of nature, science and sustainable futures.

Massimo Bernardi is the new director of MUSE - Trento's Museum of Science

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