About Cultural Heritage Online
Cultural Heritage Online (CHO) is an editorial platform dedicated to Italian cultural heritage. It catalogues museums, archaeological sites, libraries, archives, theatres, historic gardens and significant private collections across Italy, and publishes a magazine of original editorial coverage around them.
The project was founded in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has run continuously since. Across nearly three decades it has built one of the longest-standing online indexes of Italian heritage in English and Italian, with an editorial archive of articles, institutional profiles and event coverage dating back to the late 1990s.
What we do
- Listings. We maintain structured records of cultural institutions and significant heritage sites in Italy, with location, opening hours, contact details, fact-checked descriptions and editorial context.
- Magazine. We publish editorial coverage of exhibitions, restoration projects, openings, awards, and discoveries in Italian heritage. Articles are written or commissioned by our editorial team and verified against primary sources.
- Founding Partner programme. Institutions, foundations and cultural businesses can join the directory as Founding Partners, with extended profile and editorial coverage. Details on the Founding Partner page.
- Guest contributions. Researchers, curators, museums and cultural professionals can pitch guest articles for the magazine. See the Guest Post page.
Community and reach
Over its history the CHO community has grown to more than 800,000 members and subscribers (legacy mailing list plus social audience). The platform has been quoted, linked or referenced by institutional bodies, regional cultural authorities and specialist press across Italy.
Editorial standards
Every published item passes through a fact-check pass against primary sources. Preferred references are institutional (Treccani, ICCD, Beni Culturali, regional authorities, museum and foundation primary pages, peer-reviewed academic press). Wikipedia is consulted but not accepted as confirming evidence. Image rights are observed: photos are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY / CC-BY-SA / Public Domain, from institutional press kits, or from the contributors themselves with clear attribution. Full editorial standards are published on the Editorial Guidelines page.
Entity and governance
Cultural Heritage Online is operated by OASIS Tech LLC, a Wyoming, USA limited-liability company. The same entity issues invoices for Founding Partner subscriptions, banner placements and editorial collaborations. The platform retains full editorial independence from its commercial partners: paid placements are clearly labelled as such and never affect editorial judgement on unrelated coverage.
Contact
Pitches, partnership enquiries, press, corrections and image-rights questions: see the Contact page or write to editorial@culturalheritageonline.com.