Le musée diffuse: stratégie pour valoriser les villages à risque d'abandon. L'étude de cas de Pitigliano entre patrimoine matériel et immatériel

The diffuse museum represents a model for enhancing the tangible and intangible heritage of a place that finds its fortune in the quality of being able to overcome the classic idea of a museum by projecting itself into a dynamic system of participatory experiences on the territory. This model allows to trigger the processes of revitalization of the social and economic fabric that produced it, overcoming the action induced by its constitution and pro-actively branching its effects to the whole community that preserves and constitutes it. So, this model becomes a strategy to counter the phenomenon of depopulation of the smaller towns which are slowly becoming depopulated since the Second World War onwards. The text presents the case study of the “Widespread Museum” project of Pitigliano started through a scientific collaboration between the local Diocese and the University of Florence. The revitalization of the village is developed through three university missions structured in the project: the study, the research and the cultural enhancement. Overall, the entire action contributed to rekindling the scientific debate on some issues related to the enhancement of the village’s historic monuments and the enhancement of some services (important steps in the proposed reorganization of the new museum model). This action was also able to address the important issue of cultural dialogue in the Mediterranean area and that was a fruitful opportunity to feed the process of awareness of the premises themselves.