The contention for the ministry’s five major autonomous museums that are currently without a director enters the mainstream: the Royal Museums in Turin, the Galleria dell’Accademia-Musei del Bargello complex in Florence, the Colosseum Archaeological Park, the National Roman Museum and the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The international public call for bids was published in February and is aimed at finding leadership for the five museums that have been directed on an interim basis for several months now: the appointments will be for four years.
There are no big surprises: almost all the candidates come from the ministerial structure, or were directors until recently, and thus aspire to return. Moreover, although the call for applications was international, among the candidates who will compete for the five places at the interviews, there is not a single foreigner. Let’s see who are the professionals vying for the director’s position who will begin interviews in July.
For the Royal Museums of Turin, the fight is between Martina Bagnoli, who has directed the Gallerie Estensi in Modena and Ferrara for two terms, and after a stint at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo therefore aims to return to the helm of a major state museum; Benedetto Luigi Compagnoni, current director of theState Archives of Ascoli Piceno; Andreina Contessa, director of the Castello di Miramare in Trieste, whose term in the Julian capital has just ended; Paola D’Agostino, formerly director of the Bargello Museum in Florence for two terms, and returned to work in the academic sphere when her term expired; Mario Epifani, current director of the Royal Palace in Naples; Flaminia Gennari Santori, who served two terms as director of the National Galleries of Ancient Art, before her term then passed to Xavier Francesco Salomon; Tiziana Maffei, director of the Royal Palace of Caserta, and for three years (2016-2019) president of ICOM Italy; Filippo Masino, currently director of the Royal Residences of Savoy and of the Regional Directorate of National Museums of Piedmont; and Marta Giuseppina Ragozzino, currently leading the Regional Directorate of National Museums of Piedmont.
For Turin, therefore, all candidates who are, or have recently been, in the ministerial ranks and in several cases have, or have already had, experience leading autonomous museums. The competition for the Galleria dell’Accademia-Musei del Bargello complex involves, again, Bagnoli, Contessa, Epifani and Gennari Santori, who will have to contend with other leading names. The batch of candidates, in addition to them, consists of Beatrice Maria Bentivoglio-Ravasio, current superintendent of Novara; Serena Bertolucci, director of the M9 museum in Mestre and for several years director of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, among the few who come out of the Ministry; Cristina Collettini, superintendent of L’Aquila; Luigi Gallo, director of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino; Giulia Silvia Ghia, art historian and restorer, current councillor for culture and schools of Rome’s Municipality I, another outsider; Lorenzo Sbaraglio, currently working in Tuscany where he heads Villa Medicea in Poggio a Caiano, Villa Il Ventaglio Park and Villa Carducci Pandolfini in Legnaia.
Infornate archaeologists, however, for the remaining three sites. Let’s start with the Colosseum, with Paolo Carafa, full professor of classical archaeology and pro-rector for archaeological heritage at La Sapienza in Rome; Simona Carosi, director of the Vulci Archaeological Park; Filippo Demma, at the head of the Regional Directorate of National Museums of Basilicata; and Luca Mercuri, current deputy director of the Pantheon and Castel Sant’Angelo Institute, in the running; Marco Edoardo Maria Minoja, cultural manager, current director of the culture directorate of the City of Milan; Fabio Pagano, director of the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park; Pia Petrangeli, architect, director of Service I of the General Directorate for Tourism; Simone Quilici, director of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park; Federica Rinaldi, archaeological officer of the Colosseum Archaeological Park; and Francesco Sirano, director of the Archaeological Park of Herculaneum.
Challenging for the National Roman Museum are, in addition to Demma, Mercuri, Minoja, Pagano, Quilici, Rinaldi and Sirano, who are also in the running for the Colosseum, Alessandro D’Alessio, director of the Ostia Antica Archaeological Park; Eva Degl’Innocenti, formerly director of the National Archaeological Museum of Taranto, and until last June 1 director of the Civic Museums Sector of the Municipality of Bologna; and Vincenzo Tinè, superintendent of Venice. Finally, for the Naples MANN, the names of D’Agostino, D’Alessio, Demma, Mercuri, Minoja and Sirano are joined by Giorgio Cozzolino, currently head of the Regional Directorate of Museums of Emilia Romagna; Carmelo Malacrino, director of the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria; Marta Novello, director of the Paleo-Christian Museum and the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia; and Luana Toniolo, who has been directing the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome for about a year.
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