Placing the City within its Museum: The relationship between heritage, people, and territory in the Italian tradition of civic museums

The essay is part of the book "Placing Europe in the Museum", edited by Christopher Whitehead et Al. ( The International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University,United Kingdom). The collected papers developarguments concerning the cultural significance of place within museum representations for questions of contemporary European identities and notions of citizenship. The essay focuses on the italian context illustrating the very peculiar relationship existing between civic museums and their territory. The volume includes contributions of: Christopher Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason, Susannah Eckersley, Katherine Lloyd, Tomasz Maślanka, Michal Luczewski, Christine Cadot, Roxana Adina Huma, Elisabeth Tietmeyer, Barış Ülker, Kylea Little, Francesca Lanz, Michelle More, Sonja Kmec.