Autonomies: Veneto, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna push to run museums and superintendencies instead of the state

There are also sights on museums and superintendencies in the requests for greater autonomy that three northern regions, Lombardy, Veneto andEmilia Romagna, have sent to the Ministry of Regional Affairs, under Article 116 of the Constitution, which, in addition to regulating regions with special statutes, provides that ordinary regions may be granted additional special forms and conditions of autonomy, by state law and at the initiative of the region concerned, after consultation with local authorities.

The three regions requesting greater autonomy, in the text sent to the ministry (drafts were published online by some newspapers) also made requests regarding cultural heritage. Lombardy, in particular, requested that the region be given “legislative power and administrative functions regarding the enhancement” of some museums and cultural places: Palazzo Litta, the Pinacoteca di Brera, the Palazzo Ducale and the National Archaeological Museum in Mantua, the Cenacolo Vinciano, the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, the Mediateca di Santa Teresa, the Cappella Espiatoria, the Castello Scaligero, the Grotte di Catullo and the Museo Archeologico di Sirmione, the Museo Archeologico della Val Camonica, the Museo Nazionale della Preistoria della Val Camonica, the Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di Cemmo, the National Park of Rock Carvings, the Roman Villa of Desenzano sul Garda, the State Library of Cremona, the University Library of Pavia, the Charterhouse Museum of Pavia, the Archaeological Museum of Lomellina, the Besta Palace of Teglio, the Archaeological Park of Castelseprio, the Archaeological Area of Monsorino in Golasecca, the Roman Villa of Toscolano Maderno, the Sanctuary of Minerva in Breno, and the Roman Villa of Palazzo Pignano. Lombardy then called for the functions exercised by the superintendencies to be transferred to the region.

Veneto, too, is aiming for greater autonomy: in particular, the region has requested for itself legislative competence over the enhancement of cultural and environmental heritage and the promotion and organization of cultural activities for all cultural places in the region’s territory, as well as administrative competence over the enhancement of all assets, including landscape assets, on regional soil, administrative competence for the promotion and organization of cultural and entertainment activities (including the management of the Single Fund for Entertainment), and, like Lombardy, the transfer of the functions exercised by the superintendencies.

The same requests as Veneto also apply to Emilia Romagna: in the case in point, the latter calls for the recomposition of the system of competencies in the area of protection and enhancement of the library heritage, the establishment of an integrated regional museum system, of which it will manage research, training, education, enhancement, communication, promotion, management and fruition activities. Emilia Romagna has also requested management of the Single Fund for the Performing Arts.

Autonomies: Veneto, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna push to run museums and superintendencies instead of the state

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