Welcome to ICOFOM

The International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) is in charge of researching, studying and disseminating the theoretical basis of museology as an independent scientific discipline, critically analyzing the main trends of contemporary museology.

Created in 1977, it is made up by members from all the continents that deal with museums-related specific functions and the social role of museums. Year after year ICOFOM organizes scientific and academic meetings in different countries to ensure significant exchanges among our professionals worldwide.

Besides, ICOFOM has brought together a wide theoretical documentary corpus through an important series of publications, the ICOFOM Study Series (ISS), which along the course of more than thirty years of permanent production, has been the greatest bibliographical collection on museology so far.