Inquiry into museum reform - Finestre sull'Arte

Alessandra Guerrini (National Museums Genoa): completely untether museums from superintendencies

It is one of the largest seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architectural complexes in Genoa, with reception halls complete with frescoes, stuccoes, paintings, sculptures, furniture and furnishings that belonged to the noble and royal families who i...
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Paola D'Agostino (Bargello): the MiC staff should be strengthened and those who work seriously should be rewarded

The news had been circulating for a few weeks, and indeed the new Prime Ministerial Decree has expanded the podium of autonomous super-museums to include the Bargello Museums, the focus of our new interview with director Paola D'Agostino. An advancem...
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Stefano L'Occaso (Ducal Palace): Autonomy has given us a new way of looking at things

We had launched our survey to take stock almost ten years after the Franceschini Reform before the public selection for the position of director of autonomous museums came out. Now that the public selection is underway our interviews with outgoing di...
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Inquiry into museum reform, part 4. Tiziana Maffei (Reggia di Caserta) speaks.

Architects, art historians, hydraulic, electrical and management engineers, landscape conservators, botanists, agronomists, stone restorers and rup. The Royal Palace of Caserta, an immense royal residence, Italy's Versailles, behind its Baroque splen...
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Inquiry into museum reform, part 3. Martina Bagnoli (Estensi Galleries) speaks.

"Digitization of the collections not as an appendix but as an essential tool of research and enhancement" and making the visitor experience "memorable": these are the two distinctive traits Martina Bagnoli claims in her direction of the Estense Galle...
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Inquiry into museum reform, part 2. Paolo Giulierini speaks

"We can say that MANN has never been so great." This was stated by the director of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Paolo Giulierini. The reference, out of metaphor, is precisely to the construction sites, from the "historic opening" on ...
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Inquiry into museum reform, part 1. Cecilie Hollberg and James Bradburne speak

"Human resource management is the biggest weakness of the reform," per James Bradburne. "The director of an autonomous museum is a 'pseudo-employer' who, however, does not make decisions": who is convinced of this is Cecilie Hollberg. With the double...
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