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)

MAIN ACTIVITIES CAMPAIGNING

Why Legambiente is involved in the cultural heritage sector?

The cultural heritage is a key element of the quality of a region and contribute to create social cohesion of both local and national identity.

The 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 Statethe Regionsthe Provincesthe Municipalities

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.

But the vertical subsidiary is assisted by the horizontal one

National awareness campaignSalvalarte & Salvailmuseo

National awareness campaignPiccola Grande Italia

Legambiente Civil Protection Department

Volontariambiente – the nationalgroupworking on theworkcamps and

volunteer activities

Legambiente national activities in the cultural heritage sector

‘SAVE THE ART’OBJECTIVES ARE:

To give back to the people an appreciation of parts of cultural history, represented by works of art and architecture, that havebeen forgotten

To demonstrate how enhancing and promoting forgotten areasof cultural heritage can be a way to create new jobs

To promote a unified and environmentally sustainableapproach 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.

Air pollution

Neglect and carelessprotection or restoration

Vandalism

THREATS INCLUDE:

NEGLECT AND CARELESS PROTECTION OR RESTORATION

VANDALISM

‘SAVE THE MUSEUM’In Italy there are than more

4700 museumsallocate 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

ozone (O3) 2 µg/mc 10-20µg/mc

MATERIAL DAMAGE POLLUTANT

Internal muralpainted

Superficial erosionFoulingDiscolouring

Acid gases(SO2, NO2, CO2)

particulate matter

Cellulosic material& tissue

EmbrittlementDefibrationOpacificationDiscolouring

SOx, NOx, O3,

particulate matter

Leather EmbrittlementFoulingCracking Superficial powdering

SOx, NOx, O3

particulate matter

Wood Black crustsWood swelling

SOx, NOx, NH3

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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

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% the emergency plan

The distribution of the questionnaire showed that the 73% of museums are aware of the natural and anthropoid risks of territory:

Earthquake (56%) Hydro geological (25%)Industrial (5%) Forest fire (19%)

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’sfight 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 illegalitythrough an annual report and other activities.

ArcheomafiaIn the same dossier is published Archeomafiadealing 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

Place Number %

Museums 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

Number of cultural heritage stolen

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

Archeomafia business 2010

Source Carabinieri TPC 2010

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 investigationsof “Carabinieri dell’Arte”explained bycartoon forLegambiente

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 Italianmunicipalities for environmental protection

72% of Italian municipalities have lessthan 5.000 habitants19% of the Italian population lives in thesemunicipalitiesthese municipalities’ territory represents55% of the Italian land mass

LittleBigItaly’s Numbers

Small municipalities are the guardian of the largestpart 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

Training and analysis coursesExercises and training activitiesMeetings and conventions

LEGAMBIENTE CIVIL PROTECTION

Not just emergency response

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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