Description of organisation

The Province is the intermediate local government that promotes the development of local
communities, and represents the interests expressed by its 930.000 inhabitants.
Among others, it promotes the internationalization of schools, not for profit organization and
municipalities, participating to the debate about EU policies for culture, sports, economic
development.
The Province of Padova government has responsibilities related to environment, transport, technical
assistance to local governments and equal opportunities.
In addition to these tasks the Province has responsibilities concerning cultural heritage. It is the
owner of six provincial museums whose management has been outsourced to two private
companies.
Butterfly Arc s.r.l. manages the the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology, the Bacchiglione River
Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Living Insects, the Museum
of Industrial Machines.
The Museum of Medical History is managed by the company Palazzo della Salute s.r.l..
Both are cultural and creative companies with a background in cultural projects and audience
development.
The Province manages a museum portal and Reteventi, a website that advertises the cultural events
of 104 cities of the Province. It runs special programmes on cultural heritage awareness, it finances
libraries promoting reading projects, it coordinates the provincial library network system and is
responsible for the technical development and the staff training.
From 2020 Provincia di Padova is also coordinator of the European KA2 project Musent (https://www.mus-net.eu/) to create a strategic partnership of interactive and innovative museums. The project involve partners from Italy, Polland, Spain and Slovania, one of the objective of the network is also to exchenge ESC volunteers among the different strutures to share and exchange competences and experience.