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Museums and Galleries

Virtual Library - Museum Pages Worldwide Guide to Web Sites of Museums, Galleries and related institutions
Development Gateway - Culture and Development (managed by Patrick Boylan for the World Bank)
Global Museum - a major source of worldwide news, information, jobs and links relating to museums and galleries
Culture & Development on the Development Gateway: Major global information service with nearly 900 selected resources, each with an abstract, covering all aspects of the relationship between culture and development, including Arts, Craft & Media, Cultural Management, Cultural Policy, Heritage Preservation, Heritage in Peril, and the Economics of Culture
Museum International journal (UNESCO)
Defining Museums and Galleries: a compilation of key, or particularly interesting or provoking, definitions - collected by Patrick Boylan and City University MA in Museum Management students
Definitions of "cultural property" in different International Treaties etc.
ICOM - International Council of Museums
- Code of Ethics of ICOM (The International Council of Museums - ICOM)
- ICTOP - International Committee for the Training of Personnel ICOM at Fifty - by Patrick J. Boylan
- Report of ICOM Cultural Diversity Working Group
ICCROM - The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome
CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network: - major site for museums, heritage and conservation information world-wide
Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums: "An Organization of People who bring History to Life"
Children's Museums Web Sites
COOL - Conservation OnLine
Museums On Line: data on and links to museum Web sites, plus a catalogue of over 200,000 on-line cultural images, a "museum shop" and an on-line cultural magazine focusing on major European exhibitions
Museum Information Standards, 1996 by Andrew Roberts for the ICOM International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC)
Standardization of collections inventories in Africa. Handbook of Standards, 1995. - Prepared originally for the ICOM AFRICOM Programme, hence the title, but of general application
ICOM-AFRICOM Handbook of Standards for museum documentation (N.B. This site requires Frames-enabled browser such as Netscape 3+/Explorer 3+)
Registration step by step: when an object enters the museum (ICOM-CIDOC)
Labelling and marking objects (ICOM-CIDOC)
Europe's Built Environment and Movable Heritage: - by Patrick J. Boylan (Research Paper for Council of Europe's Task Force on Culture and Development, 1994-95)
The Heritage Dimension in late 20th century Culture: - by Patrick J. Boylan (Research Paper for Council of Europe's Task Force on Culture and Development, 1994-95)
ITEM - Image Technology in Museums and Galleries Knowledge Base: - international resource of information about planned and implemented uses of image databases and hypermedia media
Museum Documentation Association (MDA)
Global Museum - a compendium site for museum news, views and job vacancies
Museums for the New Millennium Symposium of Smithsonian Institution, September 1996 - on-line transcripts of contributions
National Association for Interpretation: areas covered include Council for Interpretation of Native Peoples, African - American Experience, Cultural Interpretation and Living History, Environmental Education and Heritage interpretation and tourism
Nordisk Museologi: joint on-line museums and heritage journal of the five Nordic countries (NB. many contributions are in English)
Is yours a "classic" museum or an "ecomuseum"/"new museum"? - a self-test analysis by Patrick Boylan
How $5 million collection of modern art disappeared from one museum and reappeared in another - case study by Antony Anderson
Bilbao's new Guggenheim Museum
CIMCIM (International Committee for Musical Museums) image database with more than 7,000 online images
Policy Statements etc. of Individual Museum, Gallery and related Services
- Smithsonian Guidelines on Accessible Exhibition Design: prepared by Jan Majewski, Smithsonian Institution Accessibility Coordinator, 1998
- Indianapolis Art Center: Position Papers on Multiculturalism, 1991 and on Under-Served Audiences, 1996
- Leicestershire Museums, Arts and Records Service: Statement of Objectives and Terms of Reference
- Horniman Museum, London: 1999 - 2000 Funding Agreement with Department of Culture, Media and Support
The Museum Bookstore: joint Internet bookshop service of Museum Services International, Washington D.C., and Barnes & Noble Bookstores
Full text of US Federal Court Decision and Order against City of New York & Mayor Guiliani banning threatened reprisals against the Brooklyn Museum of Art over controversial November 1999 "Sensations" exhibition.