Nicole Crescenzi receives the Barbati Foundation award

Published on 2026 JANUARY 13 AT 2:53pm

IMT School student Nicole Crescenzi is among the winners of the Professor Carla Barbati Foundation Award for the study of cultural heritage 2025. The award was conferred for her doctoral thesis in Analysis and Management in Cultural Heritage entitled "Exhibition of human remains: a question at the crossroads between ethics, museology, archaeology and law".

"The display of human remains in a museum setting raises not only archaeological issues, but also legal and ethical ones. These issues have been debated and analysed many times by scholars and experts in the field, but always in a partial way. For the first time, this thesis addresses the phenomenon in its entirety and seeks, as far as possible, to resolve the critical issues that arise on a scientific, museological, ethical, legal, historical and sociological level with appreciable, original and convincing arguments. The doctoral thesis also presents the invaluable results of field research, obtained through the creation of a legislative database and the collection of opinions from museum users" is the motivation for the award given to Crescenzi.