Yup. . . there is a Reptile museum not far from Seattle
that is run by a guy as a for profit. . .

Dave Taylor
Pacific Science Center

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> From:         lara anne taylor
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> Sent:         Wednesday, December 6, 2000 1:37 PM
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> Subject:      Re: HOT NEWS ON MUSEUM DEFINITIONS - PROPOSED NEW ICOM
> (INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS) DEFINITION
>
> Is there such a thing as a for-profit museum?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Boylan P wrote:
>
> > At its meeting in Paris yesterday (5 December) the ICOM Advisory
> Committee
> > - representing each of its more than 150 national and international
> > committees and affiliated organisations - agreed to submit the following
> > updated version of the 1974 international definition of a museum to
> ICOM's
> > next General Assembly of representatives of ICOM's 16,000+ members, to
> be
> > held in Barcelona, Spain, on 6 July 2001:
> >
> > "A museum is a non-profit making permanent institution in the service of
> > society and its development, and open to the public, which acquires,
> > conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for the purposes of
> > study, education and enjoyment, material evidence of people and their
> > environment.
> >
> > "(a)  The above definition of a museum  shall be applied without any
> > limitation arising from the nature of the governing body, the
> territorial
> > character, the functional nature or the orientation of the collections
> of
> > the institution concerned.
> >
> > "(b) In addition to institutions designated as "museums" the following
> > qualify as museums for the purposes of this definition:
> >
> > "(i)  natural, archaeological and ethnographic monuments and sites and
> > historical monuments and sites of a museum nature that acquire, conserve
> > and communicate material evidence of people and their environment;
> >  (ii) institutions holding collections of and displaying live specimens
> > of plants and animals, such as botanical and zoological gardens, aquaria
> > and vivaria;
> >  (iii) science centres and planetaria;
> >  (iv)  non-profit art exhibition galleries;
> >  (v)   non-profit institutions or organizations undertaking
> conservation,
> > research, education, training, documentation or other activities
> relating
> > to museums and museology;
> >  (vi)  cultural centres that facilitate the preservation, continuation
> > and management of tangible or intangible (living heritage) resources."
> >
> > -------------
> >
> > This definition is of great importance beyond the membership of ICOM
> > itself since it is very widely used by other official bodies at the
> > national and international level.
> >
> > Also, the proposal for a new top level Internet domain of .museum,
> > recently agreed by the official international domain-naming body, ICANN,
> > explicitly links .museum to the ICOM definition of a museum.
> >
> >
> > Patrick Boylan
> >
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