NETWORKING AND PROMOTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND COMMODITY SCIENCE HERITAGE

The Museums the “Sapienza University” of Rome (Polo Museale Sapienza - PMS) has set up a network consisting of twelve universities in total, namely, Bari, Cagliari, Chieti-Pescara, Ferrara, Firenze, Modena-Reggio Emilia, Parma, Perugia, Roma, Salento, Siena and Tuscia in an effort intended to revitalize the role played by academic museums. Consensus was reached on a project bearing the title of Information Technology and New Entities for the Knowing, Networking and Exploitation of the Cultural Scientific Heritage: the Role of the Network of Academic Museums. The key target of this project is the establishment of a bilingual web portal intended to represent the first Italian network of academic museums thus allowing them to be easily and globally accessed from the web and their quality contents to be boosted and harmonized on the basis of an innovative approach which takes into account the distinctive features of the collections and experiences of the participating academic museums, t