Posts Tagged ‘heritage’

Managing the cultural heritage

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

I think that everybody heard about what happened in Pompei- just the last of a long series of cultural heritage losses due to mismanagement.

As I wrote before, I think that the Italian cultural heritage is a shared heritage- and Italy lacks the resources to manage everything: what you find inside the UNESCO list (45 sites) is just the tip of the iceberg.

But I read over the last few days too many articles talking about principles, not practicalities.

Therefore, I would like to share some considerations derived from data (on the actual costs involved in protecting cultural heritage) and experience (on project/programme and service management).

Who owns cultural heritage?

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

In this article, my examples will focus only on Europe- anyway, I think that the principles described in the last two sections are universally applicable.
Recently, I was reading some articles about what I could define “a family feud”, as this has been a recurring item on newspapers in Italy.
Admittedly- during the Summer, and mainly in [...]