The museums of Sardinia have on average just under 3 thousand visitors a year: it is the lowest value among the Italian regions. Yet, with 254 sites located throughout the territory, the island offers its inhabitants twice as many points of access to the historical and cultural system as the national average.
The need to enhance the wide cultural and archaeological offer of the island is what emerges from the latest dossier of Cna Sardinia, which analyzes the Sardinian museum network, highlighting how the sites are often found in abandoned or at risk of abandonment villages on the island. This circumstance, according to the artisan association, could be exploited by using the resources of the PNRR which allocates over 13 million for the cultural, social and economic regeneration of the villages of the island.
In particular, the Cna reports a tender, which will expire on March 15, aimed precisely at promoting projects for the regeneration, enhancement and management of the heritage of history, art, culture and traditions present in small towns with less than 5,000 inhabitants. "The museum sites must become an integral part of the territorial regeneration projects that pass through the villages - comment Luigi Tomasi and Francesco Porcu, respectively president and regional secretary of the Cna -. Exploiting these opportunities would also serve to support the regional administration's project to develop territory plus cultural districts through the recovery and restoration of monuments and enhancement of historic urban centers, with their building and urban structures, thus recovering the cultural identity of the places ".
THE DATA - According to the data processed by the Cna Sardinia study center (Istat February 2022), the Sardinian museum network is among the largest in Italy. With 254 offices, Sardinia has 1.6 access points to the historical and cultural system for every 10,000 inhabitants, double the national average and more than all the regions of the South. Of these, only 47 are managed by private entities. Publicly managed sites represent the largest component compared to almost every other region of Italy and represent 81% of the total; only in Molise is this quota exceeded and reaches 91%, while the national average is 68%.
83% of the public museum sites in Sardinia are managed by local authorities (the national value stands at 68% and that of the southern regions at 58%). This peculiarity is strictly connected to the typology of sites present on the island, largely connected to archeology: 52 archaeological areas, 8 archaeological parks, 28 museums connected to the findings. In Sardinia there are 155 museums and galleries: of these 33 are dedicated to ethnography and anthropology, 28 to archeology, 19 to modern and contemporary art and as many are dedicated to other specific themes.
(Unioneonline / vl)