This year has been one of reckoning for museums, as they face unprecedented economic hardship as well as pressure to improve their treatment of workers and to diversify their programming and staffs.

The theme of this year’s 27th ICOM General Conference—the triennial event which brings together museum professionals from across the world—is “The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities”.

For almost 50 years, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has defined the museum as “a nonprofit institution” that “acquires, conserves, researches, communicates, and exhibits the tangible and ...

Far from being mere repositories for arts and artefacts, museums are society’s looking glass. They are a reflection of its collective memory and, at times, even its conscience. Now, as the world is in ...

The definition of a museum has significantly changed for the first time in 50 years after an unanimous vote by members of the International Council of Museums (Icom) in Prague today. Representatives ...

In the wake of calls for Russia to be ejected from the International Council of Museums (ICOM) for violating the organization's code of ethics, ICOM Russia's president, Vasilij Pankratov, has slammed ...

The International Council of Museums Arab Countries Alliance (ICOM-ARAB) has elected Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed al-Thani, vice-chairman of the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) board of trustees, as the ...