Conference “Preventive conservation in major museums. Comparing strategies”
New Wing, Vatican Museums
The directors of the most important museums in the world will meet on Friday 12 October at the conference sponsored and organised by the Vatican Museums on the theme of preventive conservation in large museum contexts. The Vatican Museums are pleased to host the directors of the great universal museums, visited by millions of people every year. Their daily challenge: to find new ways for the management and material conservation of such an important and strongly displayed heritage. I hope that this conference, by promoting a real and direct exchange, will contribute to the development of common strategies that may be a concrete help for all museums. These are the words with which Barbara Jatta, Director of the Pope’s Museums, announces and presents the significant moment of exchange and reflection on what is presented as one of the most urgent questions of the third millennium: the management of mass tourism and planned heritage conservation.
The participants in the meeting will describe the working strategies or specific cases faced in their role, and analogies and differences, critical issues and opportunities will emerge from the exchange between various demands and situations: a synthesis of points of observation and concrete activities, useful for defining what may be the future guidelines for museum institutions.