Learning for cultural citizenship, territorial identity and museum’s institutional social responsbility.

Abstract

If we want to question the role of museums in relation to the social and economic change processes we need to question both new modalities for valorising and producing cultural heritage and new forms of participation in order to meet social needs that may not be met in any other form. This leads us to wonder how to build a “museum for the public” more than a “museum for the objects” that are kept, saved and maintained therein. Museums for the public would support the so called “pre-public” and “non-public” in building up innovative pathways for their inclusion into the labour market. Museums are required to take action and to participate to the value creation processes that may be replicable, measurable, sustainable. Through the transformative action-research conducted, museums showed to be capable to play the role of change agent via the targeted, intentional and individualised use of their own networks aimed at defining concrete projects and actions that may support young NEETs in their transitions’ management.