In Italy museum educators demand legal and regulatory recognition
The situation of educators in the art world is one of the most fragile from a legal point of view. While carrying out fundamental work for the dissemination of the art and activities of the institutions, they are mostly freelance, precarious, intermittent, without any guarantee regarding their work. At the beginning of the pandemic, with the first closings of the museums, the news that the New York MoMA had fired the entire curatorial department was enormously disconcerted. Although protests have not been lacking, it does not seem that much has been done in recent months to meet the demands of this sector.
Now the museum educators of the Italian group Profession: museum educator sign a document to ask for the legal recognition of their profession.
The request is intended to frame their activity, listing the responsibilities, areas and tasks of this profession. The intent is to create a trade association with strict and necessary requirements for access. In the face of a better definition of skills and functions, the aim is to obtain more safety and economic safeguards for those who carry out this fundamental job.
