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 ...

A near-unanimous vote by members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has officially replaced its standing definition of a “museum” with a more contemporary one. The new definition ...

After seven years of at times fractious debate, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) finally has a new definition of “museum.” Throughout the process, ICOM painstakingly analyzed each word in ...

When you visit a museum, chances are you think more about the items you’re there to see than about the museum itself — much less about the meaning of museums in general. But while art and antiquities ...

Museum directors and professionals from more than 100 countries have decided to postpone a decision whether to adopt a radical redefinition of the role of museums. After a week of debate in Kyoto, and ...

One critic of the proposed redefinition says, "It would be hard for most French museums—starting with the Louvre—to correspond to this definition, considering themselves as ‘polyphonic spaces'" Hteink ...

Museums haven’t been shy about wading into the politics of the day, but a new definition of “museum,” which the membership of the nearly 75-year-old International Council of Museums will vote upon in ...

By Olawuni Rebecca ToyinTHIS piece will be incomplete discussing Museum Education without the definition of museum. Therefore, a museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of ...

ICOM, the International Council of Museums, will hold a vote in September 2019 over proposed changes to the accepted global definition of what exactly a ‘museum’ is. The new definition would include ...