WATER CULTURE AND HERITAGE: PROPOSALS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ON THE WAVE OF THE LIQUID FUTURE

New perspectives for economic and sustainable development can arise from a perfect combination of tourism and digitisation, historical knowledge and heritage valorisation in the Mediterranean. Networking to share the best existing national and international tourism experiences in the protection of liquid heritage is undoubtedly the key aspect. Within this framework of context and significance also on a scientific level, the idea of a digital museum created by the territories linked to the sea emerges. An extended and scattered museum, composed of concrete physical locations, which aims to offer the wider public a representative platform – both physical and digital – of the exemplary heritage of water civilisations and cultures in the Mediterranean. This would allow tourists to learn about the past and, at the same time, come into contact today with those institutional and entrepreneurial realities that develop water-based-tourism with sustainable practices of economic growth. It would also link the area involved and its local educational activities with the rest of the world, enabling young museum visitors to become conscious storytellers and actors of their own liquid future, whether they are in Europe or Africa or the Americas.