Planning for conservation: accessibility and management of cultural heritage
Abstract
Cultural Heritage must today be the new centers of associated life, emotional spaces in which to feel part of a community that includes everyone. In Italy, the "Cultural Heritage and Landscape Code" defines the valorization of cultural heritage as those actions aimed at facilitating the use, knowledge, and conservation of the heritage. It is about creating a virtuous network of relationships that places cultural heritage at the center of a conservation circuit based on fruition and valorization. We are talking about a conservative model based on increasing visitor flows and not just on protection as an end in itself. The cultural and tourism industries intertwine, developing interactively: the former enhances the creativity of the latter while the latter provides a support platform and a catchment area for the former. The identification of a new user figure who can vary in age, geographical and social origin, cultural background, and physical or mental abilities is fundamental. Today, we can consider assimilating the concept that accessibility constitutes an integral part of the protection project in the broadest sense of "integrated conservation," which adds planning and management tools to conservation. If the decisive step from a legislative point of view was to review the concept of exemption from accessibility requests for historic buildings with the enactment of Law 13 of 1989, another significant watershed is undoubtedly the activation of the National Museum System, which places accessibility as an indispensable objective.
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Accetta, C. (2024). Planning for conservation: accessibility and management of cultural heritage. International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin, 269–277. https://doi.org/10.12681/monubasin.8333
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- Part VI - Decorative Architecture Design, Planning and Cultural Heritage Management
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