The SIMP Commission on Museums: a network for sharing and promoting museum activities

The Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP) established the “Commissione Musei” (SIMP- MuseiCom) in 2019 with the aim of networking the mineralogical component of the Italian Natural History Museums and Universities and other public mineralogical collections. SIMP-MuseiCom aims to be a place for discussions and promotion of joint initiatives for the valorisation of the public mineralogical and lithological collections. Up to now, the SIMP-MuseiCom network has about 40 members. SIMP-MuseiCom’s activities started with on-line meetings to present the situation of the public mineralogical collections from the network members and discuss problems and opportunities.