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LYNX is the Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage. It is a research unit of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, connected to the Curriculum in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS) within the PhD in Cultural Systems. Moreover, LYNX participates in the Phd program in Management of Digital Transformation (MDT) and contributes to the National PhD in Heritage Science.
LYNX promotes and carries out case study based research projects concerning the mechanisms of image production and their contextually specific reception and use. It does privilege projects that adopt multidisciplinary strategies of analysis.
EVENTS
EVENTS
4 June 2026
Presente e futuro delle pubbliche amministrazioni
Paolo Vicchiarello (Department for Public Administration), Gaetano Scognamiglio (PROMO P.A. Foundation), Cristina Favilli (Prefect of Lucca), Mario Pardini (Mayor of Lucca), Lorenzo Casini (IMT School), Maria Giusti (IMT School)
12 June 2026
LYNX Seminar
Mara Cerquetti (Università di Macerata)
Towards Participatory Governance in Cultural Heritage Management: Paradigm Shift or Path-Dependence?
15 June 2026
Joint Advanced Seminar
Diletta Ceccarelli and Lucrezia Palmieri (CHMS)
Presentation of the PhD projects
NEWS
NEWS
Happy Birthday IMT!
IMT celebrates its first twenty years!
Discover IMT's mission in 10 keywords by Treccani
OUR RESEARCH THEMES
OUR RESEARCH THEMES
Role of Images, Objects and Spaces (Production, Contextual Reception, Uses, Tangible and Intangible Dimensions, from Antiquity onwards);
Image Tradition and Perception, Media (from Antiquity onwards, including Film Studies, Photography);
Difficult Heritage: Analysis, Management, Organization;
Digitization of Cultural Heritage;
Cultural Heritage Law and Globalization;
East and West (from Antiquity onwards).
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