Duration: 01/09/2025– 31/08/2026
Funding: Cascade funding within the Horizon Europe CoARA project (call HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ERA-01)
The Museo Galileo, as both a museum and a research centre actively engaged in Open Science, has long worked to ensure that its outputs are recognized as genuine research products. Although research is already an integral part of museum practice—often interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intertwined with curatorial, educational, and design activities—it is still rarely assessed according to criteria comparable to those applied in the academic domain.
In this context, MUSEVAL emerges as a project aimed at addressing this gap, operating within the broader framework of CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment), an international initiative dedicated to reforming research assessment systems for researchers and institutions. CoARA promotes a structural change, seeking to move beyond models focused almost exclusively on publications and citations, and to introduce more balanced and inclusive criteria. Within this framework, MUSEVAL focuses on the specificities of museums, bringing a novel perspective to the CoARA movement.
The project will initiate a process of institutional change at the Museo Galileo and develop a modular and scalable framework for assessing museum-based research. This framework will identify the unique features of research conducted in museums and define appropriate metrics to recognize its value and impact. The goal is to create a tool that can also be adopted by other museums and similar institutions, enhancing the visibility and credibility of research in the sector and promoting closer integration with academic and societal partners.
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