This text is a popular reworking of the keynote presented at the ICOM Italy national assembly and annual conference with the theme - Mediterranean Heritage: communities, alliances and horizons (Bari, April 17-19, 2026), an expanded version…
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In December 1968, Italian cinemas screened the film 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time. A film in four chapters that chronicles an evolutionary leap in human consciousness and technological capability, set against the backdrop of an…
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News Focus Museums New set-up Rearrangement
The stereotypical version of the museum or art gallery, the one often recognized by the public, would be about a permanent chronologicaldisplay, with an exhibition itinerary matching a timeline, often not all-encompassing, made up of…
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Imagine a museum that is easy to understand, engaging for you and yours, requiring no specialized skills to interact with objects and content. Imagine a museum where you would feel comfortable, where you could find answers to varied…
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The pandemic of COVID-19 now seems to be a thing of the past, but if there is one thing museums can safely take as a moral of those unprecedented times, it is the fact that digital matters. Indeed, we might add that the potential that…
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Last week ICOM announced a new definition of museum to replace the one in place since 2007. The process was no stranger to controversy, not to mention resignation, with a definition with a dual purpose proposed in 2019 and sent backto the…
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Let's get straight to the point. Linguistically, the word phygital is a combination of the words physical ("physical") and digital ("digital") to indicate the ever-increasing experiential intersection and fusion between these two worlds…
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Not surprisingly, the editorial in the latest issue of The Burlington Magazine (March 2022) is devoted to art in the age of digital reproduction. Taking a cue from Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical…
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