Although representing a quarter of the national cultural heritage, Sicily manages to attract only 10% of visitors who fill sites and places of interest on the peninsula each year. The data show how much the origin of this phenomenon resides both in the lack of development and promotion policies, as in the poor management of the tourist-cultural facilities, which make these places more and more distant from the new needs of the users.

Yet, in the rest of the world, cultural spaces - museums, libraries, parks - keep pace with the times, hybridize new services and aim at innovation as a guarantee of success.
Around them are born communities, projects, moving from the role of the promotion of culture to the promotion of new synergies for the territory, intercepting increasingly younger targets and becoming new magnets of development. Today's museums speak to an audience that has in the meantime evolved into languages, interactions and lifestyles. No longer passive containers of information, but museums open to their surroundings of territories, contextsand users.

From these considerations comes the fifth edition of the festival of Periferica, more than ever linked to the functional regeneration of a space. With the support of Urban Lungs and Unipolis Foundation, a part of the Periferica quarry will be converted into a museum-exhibition space able to bringout the aspects of the hypogeal Mazara: a system of over 100 thousand square meters divided into galleries, caverns, parks and gardens.
Through co-creation processes and training paths, we want to bring this heritage - made up of places and people - at the center of new development dynamics linked to a vision of community.
Starting from a question: what should a museum open up to?