Savona faces an important challenge: rebuilding the links and relations between local people and cultural institutions, still often perceived as distant and closed off with respect to the needs of the community.
Today, throughout Europe, museums (together with libraries and other civic cultural centres) are becoming the most interesting cultural participation laboratories: places of active citizenship and used for co-designing public policies, under the banner of a new model of cultural and community welfare.
The new council’s willingness to move in this direction requires a strategic first step: building mutual understanding, common ground between museums and local people.