Report on the ICOM ICEE conference in Cape Town can be found in the ICOM-SA December 2015 newsletter. 

Proceedings of the ICMAH-COMCOL 2012 Annual Congress in Cape Town, entitled  “Museums and the idea of Historical Progress” can be downloaded from here. 

 

See ICOM SA CONFERENCE REPORT, DURBAN, 26 and 27 August 2014, Museum Research in South Africa – Relevance and Future

 

SEE LIST OF UPCOMING ICOM CONFERENCES AND OTHER EVENTS. 

 

Highlights:

Museology exploring the concept of MLA (Museums – Libraries – Archives)

13 – 18 September 2015, Tsukuba, Japan

38th Annual ICOFOM Symposium

In a world where social relations and knowledge are more and more mediated by data, institutions like museums, libraries and archives recognized for conveying information and sometimes transforming it have been confronted with the role of enabling individuals’ access to information and information literacy. Museums, libraries and archives are institutions that create, maintain and alter different kinds of information systems for their specific purposes.