At Last Italy will Afford Pompeii Regular Maintenance

The Art Newspaper interviewed Massimo Osanna, the man leading the restoration work at Pompeii ("Pompeii will have regular maintenance at last") seven years after a string of collapses in 2010 left many concerned for the site’s preservation and the ability of Italy to look after its own heritage. More than a million euros has been invested in the restoration project and the Italian culture ministry created a special management structure that prevents the infiltration of organised crime into the process, which due to past mismanagement had become one of the major problems in the past.