The government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (Silvio Berlusconi) has appointed a former head of the Italian unit McDonald's Reske Mario (Mario Resca) the head of all state museums in the country.

62-year-old Mario Reske for 12 years remained the top-manager of the American chain of restaurants fast Fouda, a year ago moved to the position of director of a large public casino Casino di Campione. The authorities hope that he will be able to make a more profitable field of culture and art, which is now experiencing great difficulties with the financing.

This appointment has caused a wave of discontent among the opposition politicians and representatives of organizations involved in the protection of cultural heritage. A member of the parliamentary opposition Gitstsoni Manuel (Manuel Ghizzoni) stated that he does not understand, «What do hamburger, and an outstanding cultural heritage of Italy». Alice Antonello (Antonello Alici), general secretary of the group Italia Nostra ( «Our Italy»), a non-profit organization for the protection and preservation of historical and cultural monuments, argues: «Reske, perhaps, and understands how to keep a balance, but he did not aware of the culture. I am afraid that our museums make to replenish state coffers ».

In his defense, Mario Reske said in an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica, that knew nothing about chizburgerah when started work at McDonald's, however, safely guided the company for 12 years and not understand the gambling, and now manages the casino. «I have been told that there were 4 000 museums. And they all have exceptional qualities, but in most cases they remain unclaimed », - he said.

Mario Reske convinced that works of art stored in the storerooms of Italian museums, you can profitably use, they can pass on lucrative temporary exhibitions throughout the world. In addition, he plans to deal with marketing to develop the art-tourism in Italy, to strengthen the positive image of the country.

His Government hoped that the appointment of Mario Reske would improve the situation in the sphere of culture and art, very complicated because of reduced funding . As recently reported in the newspaper La Repubblica, the new excavations appear only when start digging for the construction of railways and underground garages.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: artinfo.com , guardian.co.uk , artinvestment.ru