Tomaso Montanari's recipe: 6,000 hires, museums always free for all, art history in schools

Art historian Tomaso Montanari has already sent his proposals after the establishment of the 5 Star Movement’s Team of the Future, which he joined (albeit as an “outsider,” as he has repeatedly taken care to specify on his social channels) for the Education, Research and Future area led by former hyena Dino Giarrusso.

Montanari published a post on his blog in which he says he proposed a document to the grillino team, with the aim of giving an answer to what he sees as the three main problems of the nation’s “landscape and historical and artistic heritage,” namely “the lack of personnel that prevents the protection of the territory from cementification and building speculation and does not allow to do protection and produce and redistribute knowledge in the heritage,” the “commodification, privatization, monetization of a great civil and cultural resource,” and the “lack of widespread knowledge.”

According to Montanari, the action of the current minister for cultural heritage, Dario Franceschini, “has not solved the first problem and has greatly aggravated the second,” and as a result, for the Florentine art historian, three measures are needed: the first would be the restoration of full turnover for cultural heritage (one hire for every retirement), to be joined “immediately to at least 6,000 hires of librarians, archivists, art historians, archaeologists and all heritage professionals.” The second would consist of “immediately instituting free admission for everyone to all state museums and cultural places” (for cover, Montanari proposes cutting the equivalent of “three days of military spending out of 365”); the third is the “introduction of the teaching of art history and cultural heritage in all schools of all levels.”

After that, Montanari concludes, “it will also be necessary to profoundly overhaul the current set-up of the ineffective single superintendencies, halt the race of autonomous state museums toward transformation into private foundations, and repeal the parts of Sblocca Italia and the Madia Law that subject the bodies of protection to executive powers.”

Tomaso Montanari's recipe: 6,000 hires, museums always free for all, art history in schools

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