Learning objectives

The course is included in the learning area on Food, fashion and cultural heritage and allows to consider the activities of cultural heritage management, mainly with reference to the promotion and enhancement in the public and private sectors. The regulatory issues are related to the business management and organization ones and with the features of the cultural heritage field.
At the end of the course, the student will have acquired the skill to formulate innovative management and institutional approaches, useful for greater efficiency in social, economic and sustainability policies of cultural heritage.
The student will be able to address and solve actual issues arising from the professional context in which he/she is going to operate, focusing his/her skills on compliance. The student will be able to verify the practical implications of the legal and regulatory framework, as well as to solve practical cases, in both oral and written form and also through team-work experiences, written-based exercises and the application of the method of Problem Based Solving (PBS), using an appropriate and specific vocabulary, developing proper reasoning and argumentation and reaching independent judgement. The teaching methodology is instrumental to continuous learning and knowledge updating.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No specific prerequisites are required

Program

The course aims to provide students with an overview of the complex organizational structure that makes up the system of management and protection of the Italian artistic and cultural heritage.
During the first part, the various aspects linked to the museum context will be analysed, starting from the meaning of "cultural heritage" and the birth and evolution of the term "museum" to arrive at the definition coined by ICOM and adopted by the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape. We will briefly retrace the origins of the different types of Italian museums, highlighting the differences in the formation of collections and their management, and we will evaluate the tasks, legal and institutional duties and marketing strategies adopted by museums.
We’ll explore the various professional figures who work within museums, and we’ll analyse which training courses are necessary to access the national list of professionals created by Mibac with Ministerial Order D.M. 244, 20th May 2019.
The second part of the course will be dedicated to the fundamental role played by private foundations and bank foundations, which have become legal entities and tools for managing cultural heritage with specificities, which often operate in synergy with the public sector.
Finally, a focus will be dedicated to the theme of temporary exhibitions, cultural initiatives which perform a priority function in the advancement of studies and the diffusion of knowledge. They’ve got a strategic importance in the short and long-term planning of each "cultural company". The student will be able to discover how an exhibition is constructed, from the idea to its practical realization, and which professionals work behind the scenes, from the curator to the registrar.
In addition to the bibliographic material (the definitive bibliography will be confirmed at the beginning of the course), the power point slides shown during the lessons and any PDFs or in-depth texts commented during the lessons will be provided. These materials will be uploaded to the teaching Moodle page.

Didactic methods

Lessons will take place in the classroom with the aid of PowerPoint projections.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will be held through an oral interview with questions relating to the program covered and with a grade expressed in thirtieths.

Evaluation criteria

In addition to knowledge of the topics covered, the final evaluation will also be influenced by exposition skills, the use of appropriate terminology, the ability to contextualize information and to critically rework the texts proposed in the bibliography. The program and exam methods will not present differences between attending and non-attending students. Erasmus Students are invited to contact the professors to arrange examination arrangements.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Single module

Exam language

Italiano