MiC social campaign launches to digitalize Italy’s cultural heritage

MiC social campaign: spotlight on cultural heritage digitalization

The Italian Ministry of Culture has launched a social campaign to document and publicize the digitalization efforts underway in museums, archives and libraries nationwide, highlighting the technical work and technologies used.

The initiative will feature the active digitalization sites and methods such as high-quality scanning and 3D capture for manuscripts, archival documents, museum objects and photographic collections.

• Total investment: €200 million
• Allocated to the Digital Library: €130 million
• Allocated to Regions and Autonomous Provinces: €70 million
• Planned sites (cantieri): 540 (466 active, 16 completed, 58 being activated)
• Production target: 75 million new digital resources by 30 June 2026
• Technologies and infrastructure: High Quality scanning, 3D systems, and platforms D.PaC, I.PaC and DPaaS
• Social output: 40 weekly posts telling the stories of individual digitalization projects

The materials will feed into the digital ecosystem named Ecomic, intended to support digital services and access to cultural data. The campaign also seeks to raise public awareness about the value of digital preservation and broader access to Italy’s cultural heritage through modern digital tools.

Follow the Ministry’s channels to discover weekly posts that take the public inside the most significant digitalization sites across Italy.