Franceschini: we must bring young people into MiBAC. On additional services we will decrease quota for concessionaires

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage needs to bring in young people. This was said by Minister Dario Franceschini this morning during his speech at Ro.Me Exhibition, a fair dedicated to museum services. “We have worked on the machine,” the minister said, “now there is the problem of who drives this machine. That’s why my first priority is personnel. Aging, lack of turnover and quota 100 have meant, in fact, that there is already a shortage of staff and in the forecast in some areas such as in the archives it will be dramatic. But I’m also thinking about the issue of supervision. So we have tried on the one hand to think about the emergency and use the Ales tool with additional resources; on the other hand structurally by carrying forward the competitions initiated by Bonisoli. Then we have needs to bring in young people: there are young people who have studied who have enormous skills.”

The minister also spoke on the issue of additional services: the minister’s goal is to decrease the share of concessionaires who currently manage services such as ticketing, bookshops, education, and more. “Enhancement and protection are two sides of the same coin,” the minister said. “For decades we have been far ahead on the issue of heritage protection but we have been far behind on the issue of valorization. For example, the Louvre does research, training, scientific activity, protection but it also does marketing, and with those resources it finances scientific activity. That’s what we have to get to, increasing the share of additional services and decreasing the share of concessionary companies. What we are doing is regularizing the tenders, in fact the tenders entrusted to Consip have started. Then we have Ales to which we have also entrusted in its corporate name the possibility, as in France, to be manager of the additional services in house and therefore with a function to lower prices.”

On the minister’s part, there is also a willingness to restore the autonomy of the three museums (Academy Gallery, Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia and Appia Antica Archaeological Park) that had been “degraded” by the Bonisoli counter-reform. “The reason why those three great museums had lost their autonomy,” Franceschini said, “stemmed from a need to distribute managerial roles differently. Now we have found a way with a regulation to increase the number of managers in the ministry: we are working on an implementing dpcm and within a few days the work will be completed. So the first step will be to return autonomy to those three museums. The problem is solved.”

Pictured: minister Dario Franceschini

Franceschini: we must bring young people into MiBAC. On additional services we will decrease quota for concessionaires

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