In and around the streets of Catania: new choices for Sicilian heritage

This article briefly presents and discusses some examples in Catania and the surrounding area that could be intended as practices within the framework of New Museology, and the social function of museums, in a Southern European city that suffers a gap compared with other cities in the so-called Global North. The presented cases are very diverse from each other, and they are exemplar of three more general categories. Specifically, they are here briefly recalled as examples of storytelling and street art, public art, and ecomusems: means and practices that can link multiple reflections upon the past (both ancient and recent past), with the tensions of present and future transformation. The article is written from the perspective of an urban planner who is conducting transdisciplinary research at the intersection with museology –– moving from the assumption that the latter has a potential role to catalyze social changes, in the search for the just city.