Giovanni Pinna – personalitate marcantă a muzeologiei contemporane
Giovanni Pinna – leading figure of contemporary museology

Summary/Abstract: Born in Turin on March 3, 1939, Giovanni Pinna begins his career at the University of Parma, as an assistant in the Department of Paleontology, then curator at Parma Paleontological Museum (Museo Paleontologico Parmense) and from 1964 for 32 years makes part of the scientific staff of the Civic Museum of Natural History in Milan. Initially curator of this prestigious institution, then as Deputy Director and Director for 15 years (1981–1996), he reorganized the museum in all its aspects, so inserting it in the context of the international scientific community and developing extensive collaborations with similar institutions abroad. Besides hundreds of papers of Paleontology, Giovanni Pinna published over one hundred articles and more books of Museology in addressing issues of social and cultural role of museums, exhibition techniques, communication theory, didactic museum, organizing scientific, technical and administrative museums etc. In 1996 Giovanni Pinna resigns and is dedicated himself exclusively to museology. Currently, Professor Giovanni Pinna is working for several years on an extensive study Museum as public space for the representation of history, a study in Poland, Bulgaria, China and Romania too.

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