VAenezia, 11 set. (askanews) – Thinking culture also from the point of view of the economy and management. The Civic Museums Foundation of Venice has promoted a cycle of conferences that reason on these aspects. “We thought two years ago – explained the organizational secretary of the Foundation to askanews Mattia Agnetti – to start this cycle of meetings around the management of culture Because we think that culture should be shared, even by those who manage it, by those who promote it. And therefore in the museum sector It is important to speak not only of the collections scientific, ancient, modern and contemporary art collections that are the heart and remain the heart, but also of how these are managed and enhanced And therefore the cycle of meetings aims to involve professionals and specialists and to deal with these issues from different observations and different points of view “.
Culture is of all
The protagonists of the last meeting The teacher of Bocconi Paola Dubini and the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Christian Greco, who together wrote the book Culture is of all, who reason about the real possibility for people to access places and cultural events. Even starting from economic considerations.
“What is becoming more evident and is increasingly shared – said Paola Dubini – is the fact that in reality all activities and therefore also cultural activities have an expression of an economic nature and the thing that is relevant is not so much to keep the economic dimension from the social, cultural, artistic dimension separately separately depending on the case, but rather Really develop a management that is at the service of culture and arts “.
The social function of museums
And continue to imagine that culture and market are separate worlds, after all, would end up reducing the possibilities for institutions such as i museums to fully perform their own social function. “Nothing can be born without research – added Christian Greco – a museum does not exist without research, from research derives content, publications, enhancement of the collection and research today in a museum must be considered on two levels. There is one vertical search. So the museum that I have the honor and the burden of directing will always do research in archeology and philology, in papyrology, in the archine in art history. But at the same time the museum is not a suspended company, it is inserted in society and therefore We must do sociological, anthropological, philological, economic sustainability research within the society in which we are inserted “.
Thinking about doing culture as a part of the world in which we live is also the starting point of the meetings organized by the Civic Museums Foundation, with the intent of further widen the audience of culture users, involving people who, until today, have remained on the margins.
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