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Associations operate at regional, national, and international levels. The International Council of Museums (ICOM), based in Paris, France, serves museums and museum professionals worldwide.
Founded in 1946, it publishes a variety of documents, guidelines, and policy statements related to museums, including a general code of ethics. It also holds an international conference, called a General Assembly, every three years.
ICOM’s main organizational units are its national committees, which represent more than 100 countries, and its international committees, which are professional groups on topics of special interest to the museum community.
The organization maintains formal relations with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and advises the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council on museum issues.
ICOM strives to educate the public about the role of museums in society, and it actively promotes the interests of the world’s museums.
For example, ICOM successfully lobbied the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to create a new top-level Internet domain name, .museum, reserved exclusively for museums. It also created International Museum Day, held on May 18 of each year since 1977.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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