Italy, a long-standing crossroads of cultures, exploration, and travel, officially launches MIPAM – Italian Museums with World Heritage: a new national museum network bringing together 26 institutions committed to the preservation and promotion of collections from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific.
MIPAM is born, a synergy between museums
The project was formalized in Florence, in the suggestive context of the Stibbert Museum, after two years of preparatory meetings between Milan, Parma, Turin and Florence.
Promoted by MUDEC – Museum of Cultures of MilanMIPAM was born with a clear mission: to create synergies between public, private, university, and missionary museums to make a vast, often overlooked, non-European heritage visible and accessible.
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The network's main objectives include scientific collaboration, the exchange of best practices, specialized training, and the development of shared thematic exhibitions. This initiative is designed to strengthen the ethical and participatory dimension of Italian museums.
From the Uffizi Gallery in Florence to the Egyptian Museum in Turin, passing through the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice, MIPAM brings together museums of great cultural importance. Each institution contributes its own expertise and collections that recount centuries of exchange between Italy and continents beyond Europe.
26 Italian museums united to tell the world
In Turin, the city most represented in the network, there are five participating museums. In Milan, in addition to the MUDEC, the Museum of Peoples and Cultures of PIMEThe Veneto region is represented by the Museum of Oriental Art in Venice—with valuable Japanese, Chinese, and Southeast Asian works—and the University of Padua Museum Center, home to scientific and historical collections with a strong international influence.
MIPAM aims to improve These collections, often born in colonial or missionary eras, are reinterpreted in the light of a modern, transparent and shared museum approach.
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At the helm of MIPAM we find a steering committee composed of prominent figures in the Italian museum scene: Marina Pugliese (MUDEC), Davide Quadrio (MAO Turin), Andrea Viliani (MUCIV Rome), Enrico Colle (Stibbert Museum) and Father Enzo Verzeletti (Missionary Museum of Parma).
The network is obviously also open to other museums interested in participating: the aim is build a national and international dialogue that connects experts, researchers, and cultural institutions. Thematic meetings, joint projects, educational programs, and scientific publications are planned, starting in 2025.
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