International Council Of Museums

Created in 1946, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is a non-governmental organisation maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having a consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. ICOM also partners with entities such as the World Intellectual Property Organization, Interpol, and the World Customs Organization in order to carry out its international public service missions, which include fighting illicit traffic in cultural goods and promoting risk management and emergency preparedness to protect world cultural heritage in the event of natural or man-made disasters. Members of the ICOM get the ICOM membership card, which provides free entry, or entry at a reduced rate, to many museums all over the world. ICOM traces it roots back to the defunct International Museums Office (OIM), created in 1926 by the League of Nations. Like many of the League's initiatives, the OIM was dissolved during WWII, and its activties later reassumed by ICOM.
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Council_of_Museums
== References: ==
-https://icom.museum/en/
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