Albuquerque – Thieves on Tuesday stole more than $30,000 worth of gear from the Albuquerque Astronomical Society, including a highly-prized inflatable planetarium used to show how the sky looks at any place, any time in history to any culture. The planetarium travels around the state for the club’s presentations at schools and other functions. It…
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, USA. – Reported on September 15, 2016 “Ender Darling”, whose legal name is Devon Marie Machuca, is charged with several counts of trafficking in human parts and burglary of a cemetery. The charges come after a January raid on Darling’s home yielded human bones. Darling, a practicing Witch, caught the attention of…
ICOM NATHIST and ICOM Greece are extremely pleased to announce publication of a translation of the ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums into Greek. The translation was undertaken by two members of the Board of the Hellenic Committee of ICOM, Dr. Zoitsa Ginni and Ms Politimi Loukopoulou. They collaborated with colleagues from the…
The ICOM NATHIST Ethics working group is delighted to announce that the National Taiwan has created a Traditional Chinese version of The ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums, making the seventh language for the document. National Taiwan Museum, the oldest museum in Taiwan, was established in 1908. Its collection and research focus…
On July 11 the Istanbul Declaration on the Protection of World Heritage was unanimously adopted. World Heritage Committee Member States adopted the Istanbul Declaration on the Protection of World Heritage during the 40th Session of the UNESCO Committee, being organised in Istanbul under the chairmanship of Turkey. The Declaration, prepared with the initiative of…
Although it has now only recently become available through our website, Slovenia was one of the first countries whose ICOM National Committee has organized the translation into its language of ICOM Code of Ethic for Natural History Museums, approved at the 28th ICOM General Assembly in 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. The Slovene version of…
ICOM NATHIST is extremely happy to announce the newest addition to translations of the ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museum. We are very grateful to Dr. Daisuke Sakuma, Senior Curator with the Osaka Museum of Natural History, who did the translation. It is the first Asian language translation of the Code and brings…
The Chair of ICOM Czech, at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, has announced the publication of the official Czech translation of the ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums, as part of their translation of all of ICOM’s ethical documentation. We are delighted to be included in this important work. The full…
We are delighted to announce the Russian translation of the the ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums. It was undertaken by personnel at the State Darwin Museum in Moscow, led by their Director, Dr Anna Klukina. This is an important step in disseminating our best practice standard to another part of the world.…
We are currently undertaking a number of translations to the ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums. Drafts currently underway are: French (one of the three official languages of ICOM) Japanese Mandarin Portuguese We will shortly be posting online completed versions in South American Spanish and Czech. An update on this work will be…
The Museum of Zoology at the University of São Paulo, with the the generous support of ICOM Brazil are engaging in a translation of the ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums. The project, part of a program to make the Code as accessible as possible through translation into a number of languages, is…
The American Alliance of Museums is conducting an online survey to gather opinions from museum professionals about the definition of deaccessioning. The Alliance’s Direct Care Task Force will use these data to provide guidance to the field on generally accepted uses of proceeds shared by all disciplines and those specific to each discipline. Take the survey…
