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 ...

If you’ve always casually defined museum as “a place to see art or historical objects,” you’re not necessarily wrong. But the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has a more specific, official ...

The definition of a museum has significantly changed for the first time in 50 years after an unanimous vote by members of the International Council of Museums (Icom) in Prague today. Representatives ...

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 ...

PRAGUE, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Council of Museums (ICOM) on Thursday announced a new definition of a museum during its 26th general conference which has been running in Prague since Aug ...

A Costa Rican woman was key in the process of building a new definition of museums in the world , which was approved by the Extraordinary General Assembly of the International Council of Museums (ICOM ...