University museums as digital innovation hub: the experience of Museo della Rappresentazione in Catania

The primary function of museums is to contribute to the cultural growth of society and its sense of belonging and rooting in the territory. This is all the more true in the presence of university museums whose aim is to preserve, protect, enhance and make accessible to the scientific community and the surrounding area the tools and results of research, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge. The paper deepens the results of the educational and research activities carried out within the Digital Surveying Representation and Reconstruction Lab of Museo della Rappresentazione (MuRa), pertaining to the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Catania. The socio-cultural impact of this experience has strengthened the role of MuRa as a digital innovation hub for the development of the territory