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From May 10, 2024, Stefano Bruno Galli is the new president of MUSE – Trento Science Museum. Yesterday, during the presentation, the president outlined the contours of his work at the museum, his desires for the future and the vision that will characterize his mandate.
President Stefano Bruno Galli he then entered into the matter with a reflection on the general role of museums: “The world of culture must have the ability to seize opportunities, change, pointing the way on current and fundamental issues such as sustainability and artificial intelligence. Museums are factors of development, not products of development. Today, they must define a new culture that starts from the territory, where their roots are rooted, to project itself into the world. The Muse is a very prestigious cultural institution, an outpost to intercept the complexity of the present, which has the task of expressing and offering to the territory. Hence, the ties to be strengthened with Trentino society.”
Galli’s vision is therefore that of a territorial museumof and in the territory, which however embraces the universal culture of science and is also positioned in the international context.
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At a time when sociologists argue that territorial communities no longer exist, President Galli proposes his vision of museums as a privileged lever to rebuild disintegrated socialitygenerators of a “thought” that can give meaning to communities. A direction towards which the Trentino institution intends to steer.
A direction, the one proposed by the president, which will need to be synthesized between scientific knowledge and humanistic culture, also thanks to an enhancement of conference activity, scientific dissemination and editorial production. An intense work that will benefit from the precious collaboration of the MUSE Scientific Committee, soon to be appointed.
Attentive to research and dissemination, President Galli also has an eye for the economic-financial dimension. In this context, the Muse is a prestigious museum that enjoys excellent health.
Approximately 55% of its resources come from the autonomous Province of Trento, the remainder from its own revenue.
“The pandemic has shown that cultural institutions and places cannot survive without public intervention, but also that they must give virtuous responses to collective investment. In short, the profitability of public investment in culture must no longer be viewed with horror, because it is reprehensible. Among the objectives that Muse must set itself, the expansion of the share of its own resources is a priority, while remaining aware of its “public function” and the fundamental links with the provincial institution, which must always be put before everything” – concluded Galli
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