Cultural heritage - Finestre sull'Arte

Trevi Fountain for a fee? Crazy idea, impractical, and would cause negative phenomena

I am deeply opposed to the proposal, but I say right away that the problem is not in the cost, whether it is 2 euros or 5 or 10. It is not about defending tourists from a payment. The reasons are quite different. Contrary to what Councillor Onorato i...
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Putting a fee on the Trevi Fountain: a dystopian, grotesque and wrong idea, here's why

According to Rome's tourism councilor, Alessandro Onorato, visiting the Trevi Fountain should be an "experience," whatever that means: his word, he said so in a video he posted on his Instagram profile. Now, it is not important to investigate what th...
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Why it is not a good idea to send the Farnese Atlas to the Osaka Expo 2025

The Ministry of Culture statement says that the Farnese Atlas will be tasked with "representing Italian cultural heritage in our pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka," and Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano adds that putting the Farnese Atlas at the center ...
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Do state museums really not know how to organize important exhibitions anymore?

In Italy there existed a sort of golden age of exhibitions, full of events of international scope and the result of prestigious collaborations and full-bodied loan campaigns, which today is inexorably over, the accomplice of an autarchy into which ou...
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LIMEC SSML, only a few more days left to register for the new Higher Education Courses in the cultural field

There is time until Dec. 5, 2021, to enroll in the three new Higher Education Courses that LIMEC School for Linguistic Mediators, a University-Organized Institute, offers to provide theoretical, practical and technological tools for the management, c...
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LIMEC SSML, three new Advanced Training Courses for Cultural Heritage Management and Enhancement.

LIMEC School for Linguistic Mediators offers three new Advanced Training Courses: Governance, Management and Innovation for Culture and Museums, Tools for Cultural Planning. Local, national and European dimensions, and Digital transformation for cult...
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Heritage School Foundation, five webinars for professionals on digitizing cultural heritage

The Digital Library of the Ministry of Culture and the Foundation School of Cultural Heritage and Activities are offering a series of five public webinars in the period November 2021-January 2022, starting November 8, aimed at cultural heritage profe...
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