Culture → Museums
UN Sustainable Development Goals
Description
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the arts, science, natural history or local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually.
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Organizations relating to Museums
International Planetarium Society / Alexandria VA, USA / Est. 1970
European/Mediterranean Planetarium Association / Athens, Greece
Association of European Jewish Museums / Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Coronelli Society for the Study of Globes / Vienna, Austria / Est. 1952
Museum of Europe / Brussels, Belgium / Est. 1997
International Network of Museums for Peace / Kyoto, Japan / Est. 1992
Asia-Europe Museum Network / Gothenburg, Sweden / Est. 2000
Network of European Museum Organizations / Berlin, Germany / Est. 1993
Southern African Museums Association / Port Elizabeth, South Africa / Est. 1936
Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos / San José, Costa Rica / Est. 1997
Give Peace a Chance Trust / Hertford, UK / Est. 1986
World Methodist Museum / Lake Junaluska NC, USA
International Museums Office / Est. 1926
Latin American Museological Association / Est. 1972
Asociación Sudamericana de Museos
Association of Museums of the Indian Ocean
Union of Latin American and Caribbean Museums
ASEAN Association of Museums / Est. 1975
ICOM International Committee for Marketing and Public Relations / Chicago IL, USA
ICOM Latin American and Caribbean Regional Alliance / Santiago, Chile
ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Glass / London, UK / Est. 1959
Art Museum of the Americas, OAS / Washington DC, USA / Est. 1976
ICOM International Committee for Money and Banking Museums / Paris, France / Est. 1992
ICOM International Committee for Documentation / Lausanne, Switzerland / Est. 1965
ICOM International Committee for Literary Museums / Rietz-Neuendorf, Germany / Est. 1977
ICOM Regional Alliance for Arab Countries / Rabat, Morocco
ICOM International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques / London, UK
ICOM International Committee for Museums and Collections of Natural History
ICOM Regional Alliance for South East Europe / Gornja Stubica, Croatia
Asia and Pacific Museum, Warsaw / Warsaw, Poland / Est. 1973
Swift Museum Foundation / Athens TN, USA / Est. 1968
Colloquium of European Planetaria
International Museum of Peace and Solidarity, Samarkand / Est. 1986
Musée international des droits de l'homme et du souvenir, Sénégal
International Esperanto Museum, Vienna / Vienna, Austria / Est. 1927
Central European ICOM Group / Est. 1993
Comité de coordination ICOM Afrique de l'Ouest
AFRICOM Programme
ICOM Maghreb Regional Organization
Museo de las Américas, Puerto Rico
Comité international des grands musées
Organisation régionale de l'Afrique centrale
British Empire and Commonwealth Museum / Est. 2002
Balkan Museum Network / Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina / Est. 2006
International Museum Membership Conference
Mouvement international pour une nouvelle muséologie / Est. 1985
Hands On ! International Association of Children's Museums / Graz, Austria / Est. 1998
Association of European Open Air Museums / Östersund, Sweden / Est. 1966
Pacific Island Museums Association / Hagatna, Guam / Est. 1991
Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church / Vatican City, Vatican / Est. 1988
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Action Strategies relating to Museums
From the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human PotentialNetworking museum professionals
Encouraging development of museums
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