Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Key Concepts of Museology

Mouthing before the publication of the Dictionary ofMuseology, this booklet identifies 21 key concepts of themuseum: museum, museum, exhibition design, communication, preservation, management, etc.. Thedictionary, due out in May 2011, will feature over 500 pages.Published jointly by Armand Colin and ICOM, this booklet wasdistributed at the 22nd General Conference of ICOM. Thisproject is old and has been implemented by the ICOM International Committee for Museology-ICOFOM since 1993. The booklet is available for sale, but can be downloaded from the site of ICOM. It is available in four languages ​​(English, French, Spanish and Mandarin), and already severalmuseum curators from different countries expressed their wish to translate.

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