Culture is a travail that unites the world

Today in Rome, the G20 culture ministers are committed to a new humanism and, in their inaugural address, celebrate museums as “theatres of memory where local and global identities are defined, and where different visions of the past and present meet the future…”.

In places of culture we can learn to put communities at the centre and study their relationship with the environment, with history, with orality and writing, with various forms of expression, with technology…. In these institutions, the humanities play a fundamental role because they help us to investigate what effect evolution and change have had on the organisation of life…

… ‘Research, scientific and technical innovation, heritage and society are inextricably linked, and from this relationship must spring the collective rebirth which, starting from solid cultural roots, knows how to steer the path to a sustainable future’ (Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, approved on 10 December 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly).