World museum body
International Council of Museums (ICOM) has decided to celebrate IMD 2013 around the theme
Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change.
ICOM stated that the rich heritage, which museums around the
world display and protect, is associated with inventiveness and vitality, of
which have characterized the museum sector in recent years and are museums’
greatest strengths.
ICOM General Director, Julien Anfruns said: “Reconciling
their traditional mission of preservation with cultivation of the creativity
necessary for renewal and visitor growth is the evolution that museums are
striving for, with the firm conviction that their presence and their actions
can change society in a constructive manner.”
The France-based world body stressed: This truly optimistic
theme in the form of an equation dynamically gathers several concepts that are
essential to defining what a museum is today, highlighting the universal nature
of those institutions and their positive influence on society. It summarises
the complexity of museum tasks and recalls that they are meant to contribute to
community development and gathering together.
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