Cultural heritage represents a strategic resource for development. The classic definition of cultural heritage is "material testimony of value relating to civilisation". Hence the sector cannot be clearly distinguished from the rest of the world, and indeed in the specific case of Italy there is the inextricable link between its cultural heritage and its context, both of which are the results of millennia-old stratification.

The growing demand from institutions and businesses for technological support and for innovation has met with a response through the involvement of many scientific and technical areas, which now make up a varied framework of skills and expertise.

At the Politecnico di Milano there are laboratories that are 100% devoted to the complexity of cultural heritage, other laboratories that conduct scientific research in specific fields, applied to cultural heritage with great success, others that address construction systems, environmental systems and their components, and still others which give technical support for data management, and provide essential support for cataloguing, planning, decision-making and communication.


For more information visit the website of the Politecnico di Milano.