ICOM General Conference 2007
21st General Conference and 22nd General Assembly of the International Council of
Museums
August, 19th to 24th 2007, Vienna, Austria
Museums and Universal Heritage
Universal Heritage / Individual Responsibility – Individual Heritage / Universal Responsibilit
From August 19th – 24th, 2007, the
ICOM General Conference was
held in Vienna. ICOM – International Council of Museums is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of museums and museum
professionals maintaining formal relations with UNESCO and having a consultative status with the United Nations'
Economic and Social Council. For the first time since ICOM was founded in 1946, this most important international
museums’ conference was hosted by ICOM Austria.
Museums, their self-consciousness, educational mission, and their future was at the focus of the interested
public and the press. The numerous contributions to the conference looked into the wide range of individual as well as
universal responsibility for the cultural heritage of mankind.
Aspects of the conference:
- The Visitor as Teacher, the Museum as Facilitator
- Museum: Object, Memory and Historiography
- Museums. Values between Heritage and Future
- Heritage and the Politics of Nationalist Discourse
- Museums as Places of Cultural Politics
Further details about the conference can be found in the Conference Brochure and the website:
http://www.icom-oesterreich.at. The
next conference will be held in Shanghai
2010.
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