Presumed values and organizational systems
The profound uncertainties affecting the governance of our cultural heritage do not stem from legal issues.
They stem from a protection system based on the principle of “assumed cultural value”. A principle that
made the functioning of the entire organizational structure, the MIBACT, particularly uncertain.
A large part of our cultural heritage is protected not because it was identified, recognized and classified, but
because it belongs to a particular category of goods (such as being owned by someone rather than someone
else) or it represents a particular territorial morphology.
Therefore the possibility of making the governance of our cultural heritage more effective falls almost exclusively on the organizational structure, which constantly finds it difficult to translate its duties into
coherent and informed policies.
