The Foundation

Objectives

The Fondazione Musei Senesi works every day alongside the network’s museums, playing an active role in the development, enhancement and promotion of the territory. To this end, we conceive and carry out cultural projects in collaboration with municipal administrations, local communities and other partners, fostering a system-based approach; we propose dissemination and informational initiatives; we support museums in obtaining funds and activating collaborations; we develop information systems and technological applications; we carry out educational, research and training activities and support cultural accessibility and citizen participation.
Our network-based approach allows us to optimize resources and strengthen the institution’s collaborative interdisciplinary vocation.

Mission

Fondazione Musei Senesi aims to be a space for dialogue, sharing and exchange in which museum professionals, administrators, local communities and museum visitors participate. Our objective is to assist museums to help them increasingly develop as spaces of learning and receptivity, where cultural heritage and the stories of the people who have contributed to its creation and conservation are highlighted, where active citizenship is put into practice, and where people can “feel at home.”

Vision

In the pursuit of its identified aims, the Fondazione is committed to:

• optimizing the use of resources, generating economies of scale, purpose and specialization;
• raising the quality level and standards of museums, archives and libraries and of all the services they provide;
• promoting the heritage, collections and activities of its associated museums;
• augmenting the cultural, social and economic impact of the territory’s cultural and environmental heritage, incentivizing forms of joint management and citizen participation.