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- Environment/Sustainable development
The KHI is a research institute in art history founded in 1897, it studies Italian art in a Mediterranean and European context. Its library (300.000 voll.) and photographic collection (550.000 items) are among the few best in the field on a global level.
Recently a research laboratory for the history of Mediterranean cultural and artistic exchange has been founded in Genoa with the Museo del Mare and the University of Genoa (CantiMed). With other partners from different Mediterranean countries a project will be started in autumn 2006, regarding the history, monuments and art of harbour cities. The institute in Florence itself has various projects stimulating the encounter of scholars of Byzantine, Islamic and Western art and cultural history.