Cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

The flood of skills: a story that starts with conservation

In the face of the environmental tragedies that increasingly strike Italy - these days the fourth flood in two years in part of Emilia, including Bologna - with deaths, missing people, thousands homeless, hundreds of millions in damages and so on, I ...
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Culture Minister Alexander Giuli's guidelines in detail

What are the guidelines on which the new Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli intends to set his action? Last October 8, in front of the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Giuli expressed his vision in an hour-long speech: the attention o...
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Trevi Fountain for a fee? Crazy idea, impractical, and would cause negative phenomena

I am deeply opposed to the proposal, but I say right away that the problem is not in the cost, whether it is 2 euros or 5 or 10. It is not about defending tourists from a payment. The reasons are quite different. Contrary to what Councillor Onorato i...
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Putting a fee on the Trevi Fountain: a dystopian, grotesque and wrong idea, here's why

According to Rome's tourism councilor, Alessandro Onorato, visiting the Trevi Fountain should be an "experience," whatever that means: his word, he said so in a video he posted on his Instagram profile. Now, it is not important to investigate what th...
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Why it is not a good idea to send the Farnese Atlas to the Osaka Expo 2025

The Ministry of Culture statement says that the Farnese Atlas will be tasked with "representing Italian cultural heritage in our pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka," and Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano adds that putting the Farnese Atlas at the center ...
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Do state museums really not know how to organize important exhibitions anymore?

In Italy there existed a sort of golden age of exhibitions, full of events of international scope and the result of prestigious collaborations and full-bodied loan campaigns, which today is inexorably over, the accomplice of an autarchy into which ou...
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LIMEC SSML, only a few more days left to register for the new Higher Education Courses in the cultural field

There is time until Dec. 5, 2021, to enroll in the three new Higher Education Courses that LIMEC School for Linguistic Mediators, a University-Organized Institute, offers to provide theoretical, practical and technological tools for the management, c...
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LIMEC SSML, three new Advanced Training Courses for Cultural Heritage Management and Enhancement.

LIMEC School for Linguistic Mediators offers three new Advanced Training Courses: Governance, Management and Innovation for Culture and Museums, Tools for Cultural Planning. Local, national and European dimensions, and Digital transformation for cult...
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