Local Development and Sustainable Development Goals: A Museum Experience

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank: Xavier Greffe, Lucie Morisset, Chiara Dalle Nogare Monika Murzynn-Kupisz, Ekaterina Trevinka - OECD Coordinator Culture, Creative Industries and Local Development, Alessandra Proto– Head of OECD Trento Center – Italy, Peter Keller – Director General of ICOM, Afsin Altayli, ICOM Museums and Society Coordinator, Raul Del Santo – Parabiago’s Ecomuseo del Paesaggio, Italy, Alberta Giovannini and Alessandro Zen MUSE – Trento’s MUSE Museo delle Scienze, Italy, Daniela Palomba (English revision).

Notes

1 For further information, see: http://www.agenda21culture.net/documents/agenda-21-for-culture [Accessed 1 August 2019]

2 United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is an umbrella organisation for cities, local and regional governments among UN Member States

3 See https://icom.museum/en/activities/standards-guidelines/museum-definition/ and https://icom.museum/en/news/the-extraordinary-general-conference-pospones-the-vote-on-a-new-museum-definition/ [Accessed 1 October 2019].

4 See the Knowledge Platform of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; in https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs [Accessed 1 August 2019].

5 Chaired by Morien Rees (Varanger Museum, Oslo, Norway), the working group is composed of members from various regions of the world who have been actively committed to addressing sustainability in the museum and cultural heritage sector. One of the authors, Michele Lanzinger, participates to the working group. For further information, see: https://icom.museum/en/news/icom-establishes-new-working-group-on-sustainability [Accessed 1 August 2019].

6 For further information, see: https://icom.museum/en/news/icom-establishes-new-working-group-on-sustainability [Accessed on 1 August 2019].

7 ‘Think global, act local’ urges people to consider the health of the entire planet and to take action in their own communities and cities. The first use of the phrase in an environmental context is attributed to David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth in 1971.

8 See: https://muse.it/il-muse/Amministrazione-trasparente/Performance/relazione_sulla_performance/Pagine/Relazione-sulla-Performance.aspx [Accessed 1 August 2019].

9 As stated on the dedicated European Portal for Energy Efficiency in Building webpage, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is ‘the most widely used green building rating system in the world. Available for virtually all building, community and home project types, LEED provides a framework to create healthy, highly efficient and cost – saving green buildings. LEED certification is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievements. Projects pursuing LEED certification earn points across several categories: Location &Transportation, Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, Innovation and more. Based on the number of points achieved, a project then earns one of four LEED rating levels: Certified, Silver, Gold or Platinum’. See https://new.usgbc.org [Accessed 11 December 2019]. Muse is a Gold Level LEED building.

10 The final Declaration of the 1972 Santiago de Chile Round Table defined museums as institutions working in close cooperation with local communities and committed to improve their social and economic development.

11 The national network of the 209 Italian ecomuseums was founded in 2014 and since then it has paid special attention to the issues dealt with in this article.

12 See the text of the Manifesto in http://www.ecomusei.eu/ecomusei/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Strategic-document.pdf [Accessed on 1 August 2019].

13 The Aalborg commitments is a declaration signed in 2004 by over 700 cities expressing their commitment to a sustainable future: it states a list of qualitative goals in 10 themes, from ‘local management towards sustainability’ to ‘vibrant and sustainable local economy’ and ‘local to global. See the text at: http://www.sustainablecities.eu/the-aalborg-commitments/ [Accessed 11 December 2019].

14 For further detail, see: https://sites.google.com/view/olonagreenway/altri-progetti/la-valle-ti-richiama [Accessed 1 August 2019].

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Notes on contributors

Michele Lanzinger

Michele Lanzinger graduated in Geology and holds a PhD in Paleoanthropology. From 1988 to 1992 he worked as a curator at, and then as Director of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (formerly, MUSE museum). He is the promoter of the idea and project leader of MUSE, the Museo delle Scienze, a new concept of a museum devoted to science, nature and society housed in a landmark architectural building by Renzo Piano. MUSE was inaugurated in 2013. During his directorate, the staff increased from 24 to 240 people, the visitors from 65.000 to 620.000 per year and the satellite museums sites from 2 to 9. President for two mandates for ANMS (Italian Association of Scientific Museums), he was a member of the Board of Ecsite (European Network of Science Centres and Museums) from 2011 to 2016. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of the national Italian committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums) and a member of ICOM working group on sustainability. He promoted the participation of MUSE at the Italian ASViS (Alleanza per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile). He is museum consultant and lecturer at universities and international conferences.

Alberto Garlandini

Alberto Garlandini is a museologist and expert in the management of cultural heritage. He is Vice-President of ICOM and a member of ICOM’s Executive Board and Working Group on Sustainability. He has been Chair of ICOM Italy and sat on the Board of ICOM’s International Committee for Regional Museums (ICR). He is a speaker at the UNESCO High Level Forum on Museums. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Museum of Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, President of the Scientific Committee of Trento’s MUSE – Museo delle Scienze and member of the Scientific Committee of Brescia Musei Foundation. He has been appointed by the Italian Ministries of Cultural Heritage and of Foreign Affairs to national commissions such as the Commission for the Reform of State Museums and National Museum System, the Commission for the definition of national standards for the management of museums and the Commission for the Promotion of Italian Culture Abroad. He lectures at universities and international conferences, and has been widely published in Italian, English and French.