New Goals For The Sapienza University of Rome Museums

Abstract

New technologies allow scientific museums to partecipate in a more general development nowadays characterizing both science and society. New technological devices have been studied to reduce the ‘physical distance’ between culture and the public and to create innovative patterns of cooperation, useful to traditionally non-related scientific fields. In this perspective, Italian university museums are organizing their work aiming to create a ‘system’. Recently, La Sapienza University of Rome build a ‘Museological Pole’ gathering twenty-one university museums, so to supply a valid example of museological coordination and management to all those who are interested in developing integrated museological systems. Some of these Roman University Museums, such as the Museum of History of Medicine, are involved in a project of renewal and re-arrangement of spaces and contents. “La Sapienza – Museological Pole” could be a first step towards constructing an international integrated system of University Museums.