Welcome to Danish ICOM

Danish ICOM is the Danish national committee of ICOM, the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS: http://icom.museum

In the menu to the left you will find links to a number of documents in Danish that may perhaps not be very useful for you unless you are able to read Danish. Some of the files may ultimately be translated for your convenience so come back to this page from time to time to watch the progress.

For now we offer two services.

Danish ICOM Directory Board contact information
The menu item "Directory Board/contact" to the left has already been translated. It gives you the present composition of the Directory Board of the Danish National committee with names and contact information in case you need or wish to get in touch with members of the Danish national committee of ICOM.

Danish ICOM Ethics conference May 2010 postprints in English
Danish ICOM held a very succesful conference on the theme of Ethics in museums in May 2010 with contributions from among others President of ICOM Alissandra Cummins, Chair if ICOM Ethics committee Bernice Murphy, Eva Mæhre Lauritzen from the University of Oslo and from ICOM Norway, as well as the previous and present chairs of Danish ICOM, Merete Ipsen and Vinnie Nørskov. These contributions have already been printed in Danish versions in ‘Danske Museer’, vol. 23, no. 4, September 2010 and are now available in English as four pdf-files:

Alissandra Cummins: ICOM's ethical principles

Bernice Murphy: Museum ethics today - from grey-area problems to vibrant chromatic complexity

Eva Mæhre Lauritzen: Ethical discussions and programmes in Norway

Merete Ipsen and Vinnie Nørskov: Ethics in Danish museums up for debate

NEWS from the ICOM 2010 General Assembly in Shanghai 7-12 November 2010:
Merete Ipsen (Danish ICOM chair 2004-2009) was elected member of the ICOM Execuive Committee at the General Assembly in Shanghai November 2010 for the  period 2010-2013.