It would be highly beneficial to all local and foreign researchers to have available online documents, photographs, material available in public deposits, museums etc. Understandably this is a huge undertaking, as it entails digitizing and database input but it is a way to increase appreciation, knowledge and networking of what our public collections contain. Starting it and working slowly on such a project would start putting us in line with international museums and entities.
Great idea. The way researchers can access such information makes our heritage , artistic, literary and cultural, available to the entire world.
A stand-alone Parliamentary Secretary or Minister for Culture should be re-instated. Culture is one of our best resources, which alas, has not really been exploited enough. A cultural portfolio should not be relegated as part of a Ministry but should be given the importance it is due. Furthermore, as a note on cultural budgets, increasing the amount of curators, assistant curators etc; at Heritage Malta has only given rise to red-tape and confusion.
Great idea. The UK have something similar - https://artuk.org
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