Destination Santa Fiora?
Destination tourism: how do you attract tourists to places that have genuine history and natural wonders, yet lie off the beaten track?...
Buried No Longer
The Ephesos Museum is in the Haus der Geschichte Österreich in Vienna. Excavations over more than a century have produced wonderful...
Claudio - delivered by Amazon Prime?
An exhibition about the Emperor Claudius with a sub-title dedicated to his women is currently on at the Ara Pacis, Rome. I tend not to go...
Small Things Not-Forgotten
Herculaneum. The unprepossessing 1970s antiquarium at Herculaneum was intended to be a museum. But this never happened and crowds of...
Rocchetta al Volturno's Museum: World War 2
Rocchetta al Volturno was in the front line in 1943-44, like all the uppermost villages of the Alto Volturno. The natural wall that is...
Foreign museum directors in Italy
One topic always arises when I am in the company of members of the Soprintenza for Beni Culturali: should foreigners be running Italy’s...
‘The Dustbin of history’ - The Bellucci collection, Perugia
We mostly live in a monotheistic world today, quite different from ancient times. Go to an archaeology museum like the national museum in...
Hurricane Xavier
Berlin had its own hurricane, christened Xavier, and with it all public transport temporarily ceased. The waters around Museum Island...
