ICOM NEWS Volume 52 - Issue No. 4/1999 (November)

CONTENTS

Museums News:
 - The Berlin Gemäldegalerie, more light!
 - The Centre Georges Pompidou, an even wider range of educational and arts
facilities

Portrait:
 - Peggy Loar, Vice Chair of the US National Committee of ICOM (AAM/ICOM)

Ethics and Human Remains
 - Comments on Ethical Responsibility: stewardship of human remains,  by
Gary Edson, member of the ICOM Ethics Committee
 - Is it Ethical? by Geoffrey Lewis, Chair ICOM Ethics Committee

International Committee Reports
 - ICFA Conference in Stockholm
 - CIMICIM Annual meeting in Paris
 - DEMHIST First Scientific Meeting in St. Petersburg

ICOM 2001
- The next General Conference will be held in Barcelona from 1st to 8th July
2001, by Rafael Feria y Pérez, Chair ICOM-Spain

International Museum Day
 - Pleasures of Discovery in Plenty!, Report on 18th May 1999

Executive Council 
 - New Working System. 

Museum Partners
 - IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
by Ross Shimmon, Secretary General, IFLA

and also,.... the Calendar of Events, the International Directory, the
Committee Publications ,Thefts Reported to ICOM, and more ...


ICOM NEWS is the quarterly Newsletter published by ICOM in English, French
and Spanish and distributed free of charges to all ICOM Members.

With this issue, members will receive their free copy of the new 36-page
Study Series, No. 7, devoted to Natural History Museums and co-published
with the NATHIST Committee.


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