May 18th marks International Museum Day. The theme for this year is Museums in a changing
world: New Challenges, new inspirations. The Vatican Museums are home to some of the
worlds greatest works of art. Lydia O’Kane spoke to a Chief Curator at the Vatican
Museums, Arnold Nesselrath about the challenges of new media for them
He says,
“We shall have in the future to get involved with new media as far as presentation
goes but also as far as conservation goes, how we store are objects, we have to develop
an archive online on our restoration on our inventory”.
Mr Nesselrath also
stresses the importance of educational aspect of museums which he says are always
present and are the basis of conservation and restoration work.Listen to full interview
with Lydia O'Kane