Protection, 2018 begins with a protest against Dario Franceschini

The 2018 of preservation begins with a protest against the minister of cultural heritage, Dario Franceschini. A letter published by the website Emergenza Cultura, and signed by several personalities in the field of protection and culture (among others, in order of appearance in the list of signatories, Adriano La Regina, Andrea Emiliani, Desideria Pasolini dall’Onda, Jadranka Bentini, Lucia Fornari Schianchi, Bruno Toscano, Andrea Camilli, Maria Teresa Filieri, Vezio De Lucia, Francesca Valli, Paolo Maddalena, Tomaso Montanari, and Maria Pia Guermandi) lash out against “the situation of chaos and paralysis created by the Franceschini ’reform’ separating valorization (in the sense of monetization) from protection and privileging the former at the expense of the latter.”

Among the reasons for the protest, the letter reveals, are the internal measure within the ministry that obliges protection technicians not to make statements to the press, public spending on culture that remains among the lowest in Europe (“one third of that of France, half of that of Spain , with increases that ”are being directed to futile or misguided goals,“ such as the construction of the Colosseum arena), staff shortages, the failure to prepare landscape plans, and the transfer of enhancement (”increasingly commercial," they point out) from museum poles to private-law foundations.

For these reasons, the petitioners intend “to strongly ask the parties, the future Parliament that this disastrous drift be stopped, and the media of all kinds to at least begin to investigate it, to seriously report on it, not limiting themselves to the facade figures, which are increasingly questionable by giving back a voice to the most proven technical-scientific expertise.” The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, they conclude, “cannot, must not become the Ministry of Tourism (an activity clearly induced by the cultural and landscape heritage), nor can the Superintendencies be subjugated to the Prefects”: this constitutes “an authentic outrage to the admirable tradition of our studies and restoration and recovery interventions on the territory and a continuous damage inflicted on the same interests of the country,” for which “culture and research, in and of itself, that is, without immediate economic purposes, carved in Article 9 of the Constitution, represent the fundamental engine.”

Protection, 2018 begins with a protest against Dario Franceschini

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