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Description
As part of its cultural protection activities, the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Genoa and the province of La Spezia intends to advance a project to inventory and study the collections of assets pertaining to the Scientific and Technological Heritage present in its territory.
This inventory aims to involve different institutional entities and different collections, with the goal of extending cataloguing actions of cultural assets through the ICCD path of the PST (Scientific and Technological Heritage) card, preparing its entry into the National General Catalogue System, through the new CLIO platform.
Several stakeholders will participate in the overall design of the project: the University of Genoa, with the Physics Museum, among other scientific museums under various departments, and several high schools equipped with Physics laboratories with historically significant collections. In partnership with the University of Genoa and the Archival and Library Superintendency of Liguria, the scientific collections of the University Museum System will be cataloged, so that the instruments, artifacts, archival materials, and library heritage - entities that are closely interrelated - do not become dispersed and do not lose the cognitive connection and intimate provenance that events such as closures or relocations may cause over time. The project also has a strong didactic-educational intent: the cataloging of the collections from the Physics Departments of secondary schools - for which a pilot project with the Costa High School in La Spezia is under consideration - will involve teachers, former students, and students under the supervision of Superintendency.
