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The International Committee for Museum Security ICMS was founded by the 10th General Assembly of ICOM on June 1974 in Kobenhavn, Denmark. It has been playing a leading role in activities throughout its many years of meetings. Its Rules have changed to conform with the Model Rules of ICOM, dated 1991, declaring ICMS original and unchanging aims:
01 - 07 September 2019
ICMS 44th annual meeting
in Kyoto, Japan
in conjunction with the
25th ICOM General Conference
Museums as cultural hubs:
The Future of Tradition
2018 ICMS Annual meeting - registration is open now
ICMS annual conference will be held in the period 16th to 19th September 2018.
The theme will be ‘Disaster planning’.
The venue is Nairobi,
National Museum.
The meeting is open to ICOM members worldwide.
We are working on the program details.
The ICMS meeting will be followed by an ICMS workshop on 20th / 21st September. The venue for the workshop is CORAT Africa.
KNK Germany (Konferenz Nationaler Kultureinrichtungen) has published online an English issue of the project
SiLK-Guideline for the protection of cultural property
which is useful, especially for smaller museums without specialized security staff to find suitable measures for enhancing the security in their museums.