Have you noticed our editorial stroke of genius? We’ve placed a link to this unmissable column right at the top of the main page of the site (for English speakers: the homepage)! It might just be the most striking novelty of this seventh season of ours—and if you keep reading the site, we’ll repeat it so often that you’ll surely get sick of it: how to lose visitors in three easy steps!

Jokes aside, this section is truly essential for fully engaging with our content, for participating, and for sharing both our proposals and those submitted by our visitors, which our site hosts.

It is the direct channel through which we, the editorial team, can speak to you. It is the only way, aside from the video inserts curated by the skilled team at Network Museum TV, to weave that direct thread, that dialectic, that communicative continuum which allows us to convey not only the ratio behind what we publish, but also the intent with which we build our schedule day by day. More prosaically, unless repeated a thousand times (and even that may not suffice), people tend to understand, due to natural causes and congenital laziness, only what they want to understand, what they wish to hear, what requires no effort to grasp and demands no qualities such as humility, attentive listening, or intellectual ignition. We’ve just shared with you: how to lose the remaining visitors in three more easy steps!

If you have the kindness to continue reading this phantasmagorical editorial, you’ll quickly realize its usefulness.

First of all, Network Museum is not a newspaper: it is a scientific publication on the Internet, expressing the research process of our proprietary institute, INFOGESTIONE, concerning the management of heritage, how it is preserved, protected, shared, narrated, and explained; in other words, what museums are for and how they are “used.”

You may have noticed that we host no advertisements and have no sponsors. This allows us not to say or do things merely to keep the site running, which is funded by INFOGESTIONE through the revenue generated from the sale of scientific research results. We receive no public funding, and we are nonpartisan, apolitical, and non-denominational. No one is truly free or entirely independent on this Earth, but here at INFOGESTIONE Network Museum, we strive to be sincere, objective, and to work according to the Galilean scientific method.

All of this enables us to publish only when there is suitable material, and in the most appropriate and free manner, always and in any case, in the most scrupulous observance of laws, regulations, and the dignity of others.

All that has been stated allows us to share our spaces and our commitment with anyone wishing to propose research topics or museum-related experiences—especially if they are colleagues from the field.

Twenty years ago, this was the very first purpose of our presence on the web. We had realized that there were few scientific publications, particularly those specialized in museum management and education, while the fields of restoration and heritage protection were certainly more developed—thanks to the expertise of our specialists, distributed across restoration centers throughout the country, which allow Italy to represent true excellence in the sector.

Just a few lines are enough to show how Network Museum is a very particular site, quite different from the many corporate, commercial, or institutional websites.

A colleague may find in our pages the ideal place to publish theories and experiences. That would be the case if we were a journal. In reality, we aim to do much more: we can help present the results of their work—online and in person—in multiple ways.

The same applies to those who wish to explore topics related to work in the museum sector, studies, or career paths.

Museums themselves—the very reason for our commitment—can find in Network Museum a space to more precisely present their communities of professionals and visitors, and to seek partners for shared activities in research, training, experimentation, and funding.

Wasn’t it worth spending a few minutes reading us… always?

Further information about the program can be requested at: info@networkmuseum.com