One year after the signing of the agreement between the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Suburbs of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, AMACI and MiBACT present RAAM – AMACI Archive Research Museums, the online catalog of the heritage and public collections of the museums associated with AMACI.
After an initial one-year phase of cataloging the heritage and public collections of the AMACI museums, RAAM – Research Archive AMACI Museums is now online at www.archivioraam.org.
Created by the General Directorate of Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries of MiBACT and AMACI, RAAM – Research Archive AMACI Musei is an online archive aimed at making known the consistency and quality of the contemporary art heritage, from 1966 to today, of 23 of the 24 museums associated with AMACI (excluding museums without collections), all of a public nature - state, regional, provincial and municipal - albeit with a different legal nature and governance model: the network of Italian public museums which preserve works from the last fifty he years (since 1966) is in fact extremely heterogeneous in terms of quantity and typology of works, which all together form a huge basin of national and international interest which today is finally being put online and made known.
There are 13.488 contemporary works of art surveyed (78% of the total 17.257, including loans and private deposits), of which 9.719 are currently filed within RAAM, signed by 3.301 artists and all belonging to the public heritage. RAAM is in fact an archive in progress, continuously updated and integrated with new records from museums that contribute to the increase of public heritage, according to their own acquisition policies. Within the site it is possible to carry out advanced searches and view the data sheets of each artistic product, containing the images and information relating to the author, the work, the museum or the institution to which it belongs. RAAM is not only an agile research system, but also a tool that allows users, whether they are professionals in the sector, scholars, museum visitors or simple web users, to take note of the quality, consistency and distribution of contemporary public heritage: the various search filters and the different possible combinations of the list arrangements, in fact, facilitate the overall analysis of the heritage from a chronological, museographic, typological, etc. point of view. To this end, both pages have been developed dedicated to the results of the cross-researches, and pages dedicated to the individual institutions in which the relative catalog is published with different sorting methods together with a brief description of the museum, and pages dedicated to each artist which allow previews of the corpus of works represented in the museum collections
