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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Museums cannot help but transform to respond to changes in contemporary society

Public debate about the scope of museum institutions, the social functions of the museum, and the actions to be taken to attract more and more visitors usually intensifies after watershed events that have collective implications, such as world confli...
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What could be the trump card of the new minister Giuli

Many violent controversies have stirred the waters of the Ministry of Culture in recent days. Controversies with which the work of the two most recent ministers, Gennaro Sangiuliano and Dario Franceschini, has been stigmatized, and which have resulte...
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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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What is the problem with Madonna celebrating in Pompeii? If anything, the attitude of the Park is surprising.

First, a premise: I see no problem if Madonna wants to celebrate her birthday by throwing a party in the ruins of Pompeii. If anything, I remain perplexed by the attitude with which the Archaeological Park of Pompeii has handled the matter: it seems ...
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Will Madonna celebrate her birthday at the Pompeii excavations? What do we know

A VIP birthday among the excavations of Pompeii. In fact, it seems that Madonna, the great international pop star, is planning to celebrate her 66th birthday (she will turn it on August 16) precisely at the world's most famous archaeological site. Fo...
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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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Spotlight Inquiry. Autonomous museums: let's take stock almost ten years after the reform

The contracts of 14 super-directors of museums and archaeological sites with special autonomy will soon expire. Among others, in September it will be the turn of Paolo Giulierini, head of the MANN, National Archaeological Museum of Naples; in October...
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