The Lazio National Museums Regional Directorate coordinates and promotes state museums at the regional level by fostering collaboration with other territorial entities to improve the quality of services.
The Lazio National Museums Regional Directorate (formerly Polo Museale, formerly Lazio Regional Museums Directorate) was established in 2014 with the reform of the Ministry of Culture, with the aim of enhancing the enhancement activities of Italian museums.
Coordinated by the General Directorate of Museums, the Regional Directorate is responsible for coordinating state cultural venues in the local area to ensure the implementation of the public service of enjoyment and appreciation of museums, monuments and archaeological areas, guaranteeing uniform levels of quality.
In collaboration with the ministerial Superintendencies, and both regional and local bodies, it encourages the expansion of the museums’ permanent collections, the organisation of temporary exhibitions and the cataloguing, study and restoration of the objects to be displayed, as well as explaining and promoting the region’s cultural heritage.
By defining common strategies and goals, collaboration with the region’s other cultural bodies is encouraged, with the aim of creating cultural and tourist itineraries, and for educational and technological creativity.
It works to encourage the active participation of visitors and maximise access to the museums that house the archaeological, artistic and historical heritage of Lazio.
Functions
What the Regional Directorate of National Museums Latium does.
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Coordinates the state museums and places of culture in Lazio
The major museum sites of the region, in close contact with the museum directors, are involved/united in a single common plan, for their management, development, communication and promotion of any activities of Lazio’s museum system.
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Ensures public access to the region’s cultural heritage
The Regional Directorate guarantees the public community’s satisfaction, using Lazio’s state run museums to organise and manage the services offered to the public.
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Collaborates with the Superintendencies, local authorities, Municipalities and local cultural associations
The network that unites the region’s state museums and places of culture reaches out to local and territorial bodies in a communal process of cultural corroboration and expansion.
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Develop the region's cultural heritage
It promotes the cultural expansion of the region through strategic plans for the cultural development of the area in collaboration with state and local bodies.
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Organizes exhibitions and cultural events
It encourages and organises exhibitions and events of cultural interest.
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Guarantees the quality and uniformity of services
It ensures high standards of quality in management and communication, in didactic and technological innovations in museums and places of culture under its wing.
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Promotes study and research
It stimulates the involvement and contributions to scientific research as part of a program of cultural initiatives carried out by Lazio’s state museums.
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Promotes cultural itineraries
Working with local bodies and institutions to piece together a sequence of sites and services on tourist/cultural itineraries.
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Works to connect urban centres with their outskirts
Bringing together the region’s major state run museums in a network that encourages the correlation between centres and their suburbs, open to all those who love the beauty and culture of Lazio.
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Encourage active participation
Promotes and manages awareness projects and public fundraising campaigns in support of cultural heritage.
