Fabio Roversi Monaco to coordinate Bologna's metropolitan museums

During the opening ceremony of the medical science festival in Bologna, Mayor Virginio Merola surprised attendees by asking Fabio Roversi Monaco to coordinate a working group for integrating the city's museums into a metropolitan system. Roversi Monaco, born in 1938, former rector of the University of Bologna, president of Fondazione Carisbo and Genus Bononiae, immediately accepted. He created the Museo del IX Centenario in the mid-1990s, one of Italy's first interactive virtual museums, and later introduced a stereoscopic 3D documentary at Genus Bononiae. Both have since been dismantled or closed due to lack of maintenance. The article also recalls a controversial exhibition at Palazzo Fava that drew 128 expert signatures against Vittorio Sgarbi, criticized as lacking historical design and scientific motivation. Questions arise about why Merola did not choose a more innovative direction, as was done for MAMbo.