The website for a hospital museum: the Santa Maria Nuova case study

Governance models for historical hospitals: evidence from Italy

“…The cultural heritage owned by hospitals and health care organizations is, in fact, investigated mainly from the perspective of the history of medicine [ 55 – 57 ] or as a collection of artifacts, which can be used in art therapy programs [ 12 , 13 , 58 ] or for humanisation of care [ 14 , 59 ]. Only few studies are devoted to the study of management disputes [ 60 ], conservation and enhancement problems [ 61 ] or corporate governance issues related to the ownership of corporate collections by hospitals and health care organizations. This is particularly relevant in a context, like the Italian one, where historically “cultural policy has focused more on the preservation of heritage sites and less on the access to them” [ 35 , 36 ].…”