Florence, Italy manager Roberto Ferrari, 40, is the new director of Museo Galileo

Museo Galileo - Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence has a new director as of today: he is Roberto Ferrari. A Sicilian from Taormina, born in 1981, he has followed an educational path of excellence: he graduated from Bocconi University in Milan and received a PhD in Management from LUISS G. Carli University in Rome.

From 2015 to 2020, he was director of the Culture and Research Directorate of the Tuscany Region: as part of this experience, he oversaw major initiatives such as the creation of the regional university student charter, the 100 researchers for culture project, theacquisition of the Alinari heritage, the establishment of the Ginori Museum-Archive Foundation of the Doccia Factory and the Alinari Foundation for Photography, as well as the reorganization of policies for museums, archives, and libraries, the opening of La Compagnia Cinema (Florence), and the creation of Toscana Open Research - the research portal, whose ontology has been taken by AgID as a national reference, and whose national and international research mapping system has been taken as a reference by the Ministry of University and Research as the basis for the construction of the new National Research Program (PNR) 2021-2027. Ferrari is also a member of the Commission for the National Museum System and the Board of Directors of the National Galleries of Ancient Art in Rome. Before that, from 2011 to 2015, he was managing director and partner of Struttura srl, dealing with the company’s administration and responsibility for the coordination of consulting and research projects in the culture sector (in Struttura he worked on numerous projects, including also the management plan for Palazzo Citterio for the Grande Brera project, the revitalization plan for Cinecittà, the accreditation and quality standards monitoring system for Sicilian cultural venues, the enhancement plan for the Valley of the Temples Park in Agrigento, and more).

Ferrari’s appointment will give further development to the Museo Galileo’s growth and presence on the national and international stage. “I am truly honored by this important appointment, which I accepted with enthusiasm, in the knowledge that the issues the museum addresses are central to a fruitful relationship between scientific knowledge and the challenges of contemporary society,” says the newly appointed director. “The Museo Galileo is for many reasons a virtuous example in which research and popularization activities on the history of science are combined, a point of reference at the international level whose results are the fruit of careful work, the merit of which undoubtedly goes to those who have imprinted on it a recognizable and unanimously appreciated physiognomy. I warmly thank the President and the members of the Board of Directors for the trust placed in me.”

Florence, Italy manager Roberto Ferrari, 40, is the new director of Museo Galileo

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