(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 26 - Ilaria Ester Bonacossa for the new Museum of Digital Art in Milan, Andrea Viliani at the Museum of Civilization in Rome, Tiziana D'Angelo at the Paestum and Velia Park, Enrico Rinaldi for the Sepino park, Vincenzo Belelli for the Archaeological Park of Cerveteri and Tarquinia, Axel Hemery at the Pinacoteca of Siena.
They are the 6 new directors of autonomous museums appointed at the end of the international competition.
This was announced by the Minister of Culture Franceschini.
The commission, which evaluated 156 candidates, was chaired by Stefano Baia Curioni, associate professor of economic history at the "Luigi Bocconi" University of Milan and expert in cultural economics, and composed of: Nadia Barella, full professor of museology at the university of studies from Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"; Valérie Huet, professor of ancient history at the University of Western Brittany and the "Jean Bérard" Center;
José MaríaLuzón Nogué, Real Academia de Belòlas Artes de San Fernando, former director of the Prado Museum;
Antonia Pasqua Recchia, former secretary general of the Ministry of Culture.
According to the public selection procedure, the Director General of Museums, Massimo Osanna,
chose the six new directors among the three candidates indicated by the Commission for each institute.
"Italian museums have profoundly changed in these years and are today an excellence recognized in the world, because the right people went to guide them through rigorous international selections", comments Minister Franceschini.
"The intersection between autonomy and the quality of directors has allowed us to take important steps forward in the modernization of the museum system and in strengthening the protection and scientific production. I thank the commission for the careful work carried out in recent months which led to the appointment by the general director of museums , Massimo Osanna, of six new directors, five Italians and one French ".
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