MANN in financial distress: Colosseum and Pompeii rescue it with 4 million euros

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is in financial distress, and to rescue the Neapolitan institution, Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has signed a decree that provides for a transfer of 4 million euros to MANN’s budget from those of the Colosseum and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, which will contribute 2 million euros each to the financial balance of their Neapolitan colleagues.

The decree was issued last June 22: the transfer “in favor of the budget of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples,” the measure reads, “would guarantee the same financial balance.” The “gift” from the Colosseum and MANN is possible thanks to Decree-Law 34 of March 31, 2011, converted by Law 75 of May 26 of the same year, which gives the minister of culture the possibility, through a decree of his own, to arrange for transfers of resources between the funds deposited in the treasury accounts of the superintendencies to meet their respective financial needs: following the Franceschini reform, the 2018 budget law specified that the reference to superintendencies is also to be understood for museums with special autonomy, such as both the MANN, the Colosseum, and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii.

And that this is a transfer linked to difficulties, and therefore not to the forthcoming promotion of MANN among the first-tier autonomous museums, was also said by the director general of state museums, Massimo Osanna, in a statement made to the Neapolitan edition of the Corriere: “The transfer of resources,” he said, “is not functional for the transition to the first tier, but serves for the functioning of the Mann, which is suffering from the reduction of revenues during the Covid phase. The operation was made possible by the fact that Colosseum and Pompeii according to the final balance had surpluses. This is basically a practice that can be combined with the 20 percent share allocated for rebalancing and has been activated before.”

Image: the Sundial Hall of the MANN. Photo: Berthold Werner

MANN in financial distress: Colosseum and Pompeii rescue it with 4 million euros

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