Save the art - Legambiente

MAIN ACTIVITIES CAMPAIGNING
The most important campaigns are:
Goletta Verde (Green Schooner)
Cento Strade per Giocare (One hundred streets to play)
Mal’aria (Sick Air)
Operazione Fiumi (Operation Rivers)
Piccola Grande Italia (Little Big Italy)
Puliamo il Mondo (Clean up the World)
Salvalarte (Save the Art)
Treno Verde (Green Train)
Why Legambiente is involved
in the cultural heritage sector?
ÖThe cultural heritage is a key element of the
quality of a region and contribute to create
social cohesion of both local and national
identity.
ÖThe cultural heritage in a specific territory
creates a widespread social awareness and
become an important factor of cultural growth
of the area.
In Italy the support of cultural heritage
and the promotion and organization of
cultural activities is stated in the
National Constitution
The authorities responsible for the
vertical subsidiary are
the State
Ö the Regions
Ö the Provinces
Ö the Municipalities
Ö
But the vertical subsidiary is assisted
by the horizontal one
The citizens individually or in partnership can
contribute to the pursuit of public interests,
including the promotion of cultural heritage.
When we are in partnership, we became an
associations for the promotion of cultural
heritage.
Legambiente national activities in the
cultural heritage sector
National awareness campaign
Salvalarte & Salvailmuseo
National awareness campaign
Piccola Grande Italia
Legambiente Civil Protection Department
Volontariambiente – the national
groupworking on theworkcamps and
volunteer activities
‘SAVE THE ART’
OBJECTIVES ARE:
Ö
To give back to the people an appreciation of parts of cultural
history, represented by works of art and architecture, that have
been forgotten
Ö
To demonstrate how enhancing and promoting forgotten areas
of cultural heritage can be a way to create new jobs
Ö
To promote a unified and environmentally sustainable
approach to development where cultural interest is stressed
APPROACH ALL PEOPLE
Discovering and
understanding the
meaning of forgotten
works of art is a way of
learning about your
own cultural heritage.
TO DEMONSTRATE THE POOR STATE OF
CONSERVATION OF MUCH OF OUR
CULTURAL HERITAGE.
THREATS INCLUDE:
Ö Neglect and careless
protection or restoration
Ö Vandalism
Ö Air
pollution
NEGLECT AND CARELESS
PROTECTION OR RESTORATION
VANDALISM
‘SAVE THE MUSEUM’
In Italy there are than more
4700 museums
allocate in the whole country
Just 10% of them are national
the others are regional,
provincial, municipal,
private and ecclesiastical
In the last 60 years the slow, but natural process
of monument’s aging, is become faster because
of the environmental pollution.
The air pollution negatively impacts the
monuments that are en plein air, but it enters also
in the schools, in the hospital and in the
museums, because we are not able to stop the
circulation air and the pollution too.
Most of the Italian’s museums are built in the end of
the XIX century and at the time the architects didnt’
think about modern pollution problems.
So in this time
the damages of
air pollution on
the art craft as
painting, arazzo,
textiles, are
many and
diversified like
erosion, dirty,
discolours etc.
In the 2001 the Italian
legislation
promulgates a law to
fix the limits of the
polluting substances
that are allowed in the
museum and other
guidelines.
But one year before Legambiente, with a new
campaing named Salvalilmuseo (Save the museum),
starts to do the analysis of air quality in few public
museums and the result was not so encouraging.
POLLUTANT
MUSEUM
ARCHIVES
sulphur dioxide (SO2)
<1 µg/mc
15-25µg/mc
nitrogen dioxide (NO2)
<5 µg/mc
10-20µg/mc
2 µg/mc
10-20µg/mc
ozone (O3)
MATERIAL
Internal mural
painted
DAMAGE
POLLUTANT
Superficial erosion
Fouling
Discolouring
Acid gases
(SO2, NO2, CO2)
Cellulosic material
& tissue
Embrittlement
Defibration
Opacification
Discolouring
SOx, NOx, O3,
Leather
Embrittlement
Fouling
Cracking
Superficial powdering
SOx, NOx, O3
Black crusts
Wood swelling
SOx, NOx, NH3
Wood
particulate matter
particulate matter
particulate matter
Ge nova - SO2
5
4
3
2
1
0
1
2
3
4
Ge nova - NO2
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
2
3
4
Genova - O3
65
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
1
2
3
4
In the 2007 Legambiente, in collaboration with Italy
ICOM, has realized an investigation through a
questionnaire in 200 museums
in order to explore the position of the museums
after the publication of the guidelines
% Staff shortages
% Use of funding
The distribution of the questionnaire showed that the 73%
of museums are aware of the natural and anthropoid risks
of territory:
5%
32%
Earthquake (56%)
Hydro geological (25%)
Industrial (5%)
Forest fire (19%)
63%
si
no
non sa
% the emergency plan
The Directors of the museums (47%) know that exist a civil
Protection municipal plan; but only 32% has got a specific
emergency plan for the museum
SALVALARTE’s success
In the civil society, it’s very important
the role that of the citizen play as the
principle actors in the changing of bad
habits.
The cultural heritage is something that the citizens
have to feel like how a part fundamental, of their
life.
Every year Legambiente publish
reports and dossier:
Ecomafia (Eco-crimes): Legambiente’s
fight against the illegal traffic and
disposal of waste, illegal excavation and
unauthorised building, and the effort to
make the public opinion aware of various
phenomena of environmental illegality
through an annual report and other
activities.
Archeomafia
In the same dossier is published Archeomafia
dealing with the illegal traffic of cultural heritage.
Place where is stolen the cultural heritage
Place
Number
%
Museums
18
2,2
Local and private authorities
83
10,2
Churches
403
49,3
Private
313
38,3
Total
817
100
Source Carabinieri TPC 2010
Number of cultural heritage stolen
Place
Number
%
138
0,7
Local and private authorities
11.020
54,2
Churches
2.286
11,3
Private
6.876
33,8
Total
20.320
100
Museums
Source Carabinieri TPC 2010
Archeomafia business 2010
Estimated value
€
Cultural Heritage recovered or sequestered
69.655.251,00
Fake sequestered
123.886.340,00
Oter sequestered stuff
22.579.600,00
Total
216.121.191,00
Source Carabinieri TPC 2010
The best way to oppose the illegal traffic is to talk about
these themes, because for the thieves becomes
more difficult sale the objects.
This is why, in the 2010, Archeomfia becomes a Cartoon
exhibition, realized in cooperation with the Carabinieri TPC
History of Art &Crime
six investigations
of “Carabinieri
dell’Arte”
explained by
cartoon for
Legambiente
The artcraft and the cartoon in the
same exibition
…a good chance to learn how to love
Italian cultura heritage
LITTLE BIG ITALY
This is Legambiente’s campaign born in 2001
to promote and increase the role and
importance of the small Italian
municipalities for environmental protection
LittleBigItaly’s Numbers
Ö72% of Italian municipalities have less
than 5.000 habitants
Ö19% of the Italian population lives in these
municipalities
Öthese municipalities’ territory represents
55% of the Italian land mass
Small municipalities are the guardian of the largest
part of Italy’s extraordinary artistic, historical,
natural and even gastronomic heritage
LEGAMBIENTE CIVIL PROTECTION
It’s ready to operate in case
of disaster.
Has got a properly teams
with a high level training
course and specialization.
LEGAMBIENTE CIVIL PROTECTION
The team is able to put in safety sculptures,
paintings, historical archives, etc
LEGAMBIENTE CIVIL PROTECTION
Not just emergency response
Ö Training and analysis courses
Ö Exercises and training activities
Ö Meetings and conventions
Volunteers for Environment is aimed at
enhancing public awareness on environmental
issues such as promoting green tourism in
order to develop a sustainable economy, at
helping people to be proactive for the
conservation of our natural and cultural
heritage
The volunteers are
involved in
different kinds of
work camps as
conservation of
historical sites.
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