DEMHIST, ICOM's International Committee for Historic House Museums, addresses exactly these issues, and many more, which are pertinent to the special area of historic house museums. We hope you join as a voting member, and participate actively in order to enrich us all. Please contact your national ICOM headquarters for membership. If you do not have this information already, you may find it on ICOM's central web site: http://www.icom.org The Acts of the Genova (2000) DEMHIST conference are available, and would be of great help to you. The Acts of the Barcelona conference (2001) will be coming out in the next couple of months. The upcoming conference (14-16 October 2002) in Amsterdam will be about this very topic from a number of points of view (presentation, methodology, practical): "Historic House Museums as a Witness of National and Local Identities." Information about the final program and travel details will be available shortly. Please contact DEMHIST for further information: [log in to unmask] By the way, there also is a discussion list dedicated to historic house museums which might be of help. Please contact Heather Parmenter: [log in to unmask] Hope this has been helpful, best regards, Star home: [log in to unmask] DEMHIST: [log in to unmask] work: [log in to unmask] BAGATTI VALSECCHI MUSEUM http://www.museobagattivalsecchi.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).