The cornerstone of ICOM is its ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. It sets minimum standards of professional practice and performance for museums and their staff. In joining the organisation, ICOM members undertake to abide by this Code.
The Keynote Speakers Materials from the 2012 ICOFOM Annual Meeting are available here!

The 22nd ICOM General Conference. Where ICOFOM elected its new Board.
The booklet, distributed during the 22nd ICOM General Conference, presents 21 fundamental concepts of museology.

ICOFOM Study Series (ISS 41) part 1
ICOFOM Study Series (ISS 41) part 2
Empowering the visitor: process, progress, protest

Next ICOFOM meeting:
Rio de Janeiro, 12-14 August 2013.
The Special Visitor: Each and Every One of Us
Click here for the Call for papers (New!)
New deadline: April 08. This is the last extension!

The next ICOM General Conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Date: August 10-17th, 2013.
The Dictionnaire encyclopédique de muséologie, produced by the members of ICOFOM and supported by ICOM, is a momentous publication with a long, ambitious history. (Cont.)

I am very pleased to welcome you to the ICOFOM website, and to ICOFOM if you have not been with us before. We are an active group of museologists and scholars who enjoy probing the theoretical basis of museology, exploring museums and having fun as well. (continue)
Ann Davis
President ICOFOM