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4 unusual facts about International Council of Museums


Anthony Roland

Developed in partnership with ICOM for International Museum Day from 12 May to 31 May 2013, two sets of free films from the Roland Collection are freely available.

Philip K. Lundeberg

He was also the organizing chairman for International Congress of Maritime Museums at London in 1972, and a secretary of the International Committee on Museum Security of the International Council of Museums.

Richard Kurin

29 He was a keynote speaker at the 2004 meeting of the International Council of Museums in Seoul, Korea and in 2007 gave the Founder’s Lecture at Harvard University's Peabody Museum.

Rosa Tavarez

She is a member of the Dominican School of Artists, the International Association of Artists AIAAP, and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).


Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

This Convention was the first international treaty aimed at protecting cultural heritage in the context of war, and which highlighted the concept of common heritage and led to the creation of the International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS), whose Director General is currently Mr Julien Anfruns from the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Yvonne Oddon

After the war, Yvonne Oddon, while continuing her work at the Musée de l'Homme, took part in numerous missions under the aegis of UNESCO (Haïti, 1949) and took part in the organisation of education conferences based in Malmö in 1950 and in Ibadan in 1954; then the creation of the International Council of Museums, for which she made a classification system; and she took part, after her retirement, in numerous missions, particularly to the Museum centre in Jos, Nigeria.


see also

Julien Anfruns

It brings together the knowledge, experience and international networks of the following non-governmental organisations dealing with cultural heritage: ICA, International Council on Archives, ICOM, International Council of Museums, IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, ICOMOS, International Council on Monuments and Sites and CCAAA, Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations.