Profile

Operator in the Cultural Heritage sector in the public and private sectors

Functions

Operators, in collaboration or assistance roles, in the field of cultural heritage in the broadest sense of the term, with particular attention to archaeological, historical-artistic and landscape assets, the diagnostic sector and that of new technologies for Cultural Heritage.
More specifically, graduates will be able to operate with the following functions:
- At the Ministry of Culture (MiC), local and territorial bodies, museums, associations and private companies of an entrepreneurial nature in the Cultural Heritage sector: expert operators who collaborate in the conception, organization, management and promotion of events related to Cultural Heritage; expert operators involved in cultural dissemination, able to use, also in English, different communication registers suitable for every type of audience; expert operators able to collaborate in the inventory, cataloguing and restoration of cultural heritage; expert operators able to collaborate in the organisation of exhibitions and museum displays; qualified personnel for guiding activities in museums and during exhibitions; expert collaborators in the field of conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage; expert collaborators in the field of diagnostics and digital technologies for Cultural Heritage.
In particular, Ministerial Decree 244 of 20 May 2019 establishes that archaeologists registered in the third band of the ministerial lists (see, below, employment opportunities) can: carry out support activities for the execution of appraisals, expertise, evaluations, authentications of archaeological assets, both individual and in their context; collaborate in the evaluation and identification activities of archaeological contexts and sites; collaborate in topographical and ancient landscape research activities, also with the aid of applied technologies, and the contribution of related sciences, aimed at their identification, reconstruction and evaluation in a diachronic sense and aimed at the reconstruction of ancient landscapes and the identification of archaeological contexts and sites; collaborate in archaeological excavation activities, prospecting, field documentation of archaeological assets, contexts and sites, including underwater; collaborate in inventorying, cataloging, documentation and management of databases relating to archaeological assets; collaborate in conservation activities of landscapes, monuments, contexts, sites and archaeological assets; collaborate in conservation, maintenance, restoration, protection, transfer and movement interventions of movable archaeological assets; collaborate in the care of the exhibition and conservation of museum collections of archaeological assets; collaborate in the creation of exhibitions and fruition routes of and on archaeological assets, contexts and sites; collaborate in study, research and education activities in the field of archaeology and related and connected disciplines; collaborate in the educational services of museums, archaeological areas and parks, widespread museums and/or other institutions that exhibit or deal with archaeological assets, contexts or sites in state superintendencies or within public or private cultural institutions or at territorial bodies operating in the archaeological field.
As regards art historians, Ministerial Decree 244 of 20 May 2019 establishes that those registered in the third band of the ministerial lists (see, below, employment opportunities) can: collaborate in the management and loan procedures for exhibitions and the process of moving historical-artistic assets outside and inside museums and in public and private structures; collaborate in study and research activities, drafting and publishing scientific texts in relevant disciplines, collaborate in the preparation and management of laboratory activities and other educational initiatives, adapting the specifics of the contents to the historical-artistic assets and the categories of visitors of reference.
- In private companies and organizations active in the cultural tourism sector and in the organization of artistic and cultural events: experts able to organize cultural itineraries as well as cultural dissemination and promotion events whose realization requires historical, archaeological, historical-artistic knowledge as well as management skills - including economic - of cultural assets and IT, technological-digital and linguistic skills (English).
- In the publishing, television and multimedia fields: journalists and communication experts as well as those responsible for providing content for the cultural industry.

Skills

The graduate in Cultural Heritage:
- knows archaeological, architectural, historical-artistic artefacts; has the ability to chronologically frame the different productions as well as to contextualize and interpret both the artefacts and the related historical phenomena and events;
- has adequate technical-scientific knowledge, including operational, on the morphological-structural characteristics of the artefacts, on the properties of the materials that compose them, on archaeometry and diagnostics;
- knows how to use historical sources, paper and digital archives, autoptic analysis tools, iconographic and stylistic recognition methods of archaeological and/or artistic artefacts;
- has the skills to collaborate in the census, cataloguing and filing - also through IT skills - of archaeological and/or historical-artistic assets;
- has the skills to collaborate in the activities of both evaluation, identification and excavation of archaeological contexts and sites and topographic research and ancient landscapes, also making use of applied technologies and the contribution of similar sciences,
- has the skills to collaborate in the activities of management, care, restoration and protection of cultural heritage and is able to study, enhance, communicate, promote and disseminate archaeological and/or historical-artistic documentation correctly; knows the techniques used in restoration interventions;
- has the skills to collaborate in the activities of inventory, cataloguing, documentation and management of databases relating to archaeological and historical-artistic assets;
- is able to collaborate in the organisation of an exhibition event of archaeological and/or historical-artistic assets, also using digital technologies;
- is able to draft informative and/or specialist texts in the archaeological and/or historical-artistic field aimed at an audience of different ages and cultures and suitable for different purposes and contexts;
- knows how to communicate a cultural event, also using IT support and adapting the content to different types of audience, and is able to identify the most suitable communication techniques to promote tangible and intangible cultural heritage;
- is able to develop historical-artistic itineraries also for tourism purposes;
- knows the main fields and methods of application of digital technologies to cultural heritage;
- is able to integrate forms and aspects of scientific and humanistic knowledge, also using the main IT data management tools;
- has historical-artistic and/or archaeological, linguistic (English), IT, legislation and management of cultural heritage skills suitable for use in the field of cultural publishing as well as in the television and multimedia sector;
- interacts with a multidisciplinary work group, but always operating with defined degrees of autonomy as well as managing and rationally organizing working hours;
- is able to find calls for activities and funding, including international ones, and to find the documentation required to participate;
- knows the management procedures of cultural assets and activities and knows how to identify the most suitable development strategies.

Sbocco

-Sectors of the Public Administration relating to Cultural Heritage: MiC, Superintendencies, Museums, Libraries, Theaters;
-Local authorities that operate for the enhancement of cultural heritage, material or intangible;
-Associations, companies and cultural businesses, private foundations and antiques businesses, private museums linked to the world of Cultural Heritage in the broadest sense of the term; companies that offer cultural services for institutions and businesses;
-Tourism promotion bodies; travel companies and agencies, tour operators;
-Newspapers, periodicals, television companies, online sites for cultural information and dissemination; companies operating in the digital publishing sector.
The Course also allows for inclusion in the "National lists of professionals competent to carry out interventions on cultural heritage" provided for by the recent definition of cultural heritage professions by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (DM 244 of 20 May 2019) and in particular allows you to request (after having completed 12 months, even non-continuously, of documented professional experience) registration in the following profiles: a) archaeologist - III band; b) art historian - III band.
Finally, the Course allows access to the master's degree courses in Archaeology (Class LM-2), in History of Art (Class LM-89) and in Digital Heritage/Digital technologies for cultural heritage (Class LM-43).