Call for nominations – IC Ethics 2022
Stand for election to the IC Ethics Board (2023–25)
International Committee on Ethical Dilemmas
The ICOM International Committee on Ethical Dilemmas (IC Ethics) is an open forum on practical challenges regarding ethical dilemmas in the museum profession. IC Ethics is a space where museum professionals can reflect, share and discuss ethical dilemmas, helping them to make more informed choices. It is one of ICOM’s 32 International Committees. IC Ethics
- offers a channel of communication between ICOM members facing similiar ethical dilemmas in their every day practice;
- shares professional approaches to ethical dilemmas;
- gathers, in cooperation with all other committees in ICOM, experiences on museum ethics to foster the dissemination of good practices;
- provides input to ethical debates through different forms of knowledge dissemination; and
- does not pass formal judgements about right or wrong.
IC Ethics Rules, including those for elections, can be found here:
Please note that IC Ethics and ETHCOM are not the same!
More information about what distinguishes IC Ethics from ETHCOM can be found here: https://www.ic-ethics.museum/about-us/
We welcome your candidacy!
The IC Ethics Board has today 8 members that serve voluntarily to represent the interests of IC Ethics, the International Committee on Ethical Dilemmas. The committee is the youngest om ICOMs 32 international committees. It exists since September 2019 and has already over 110 members from 19 countries. Board meetings are held once a month, and the activities include regular Meeting Room Events, conferences and other events, focusing on current ethical challenges as experienced by ICOM members. Please note that active contributions to the committees work and mission are required!
The first term of the committee is now ending, and all members are hereby invited to send us a nomination for a board position. If you are interested in becoming a board member, please send the following information to
icom@ic-ethics.museum by the 30th of September 2022:
- a motivation statement on how you can contribute to IC Ethics ́ mission, and your motivation to get involved in the IC Ethics Board (maximum 250 words)
- a short bio/resume (maximum 250 words) and a portrait photo
Your candidacy will be announced to all members in the beginning of October 2022. You will also have the possibility to present yourself at IC Ethics Annual Meeting 2022, 29th of November. The elections will be held at the same meeting.
Any questions can be sent to icom@ic-ethics.museum. You are also welcome to contact any board member for further questions about the day-to-day work of the committee.
Norway, 29th of July 2022
Kathrin Pabst
Chair IC-Ethics
Vest-Agder-museet IKS//Identity on the Line
Odderøyveien 21, 4610 Kristiansand
Tlf: +47 932 46 157
www.ic-ethics.museum
LET US MEET IN PRAGUE 2022
OFF-SITE MEETING AT MUSEUM KAMPA, WERICH VILLA
25 August 2022, 09:00 – 17:00
Preliminary program:
Call for short text- or video messages
The Power of Museums
demands reflections on pressing ethical challenges
After two years of travel restrictions due to the pandemic, we are looking forward to meeting museum colleagues from all over the world again. We have decided to dedicate our Off-Site meeting at Museum Kampa, Werich Villa, on 25 August 2022 to connect and reflect in- depth together.
The discussions will take their starting point in the topics and challenges our members and other colleagues experience in their everyday life or find most relevant for today’s museums.
We hereby invite you to send us a short email or video message with the challenge you would like to discuss at Werich Villa. Even if you can not be present, we encourage you to send your experiences and challenges to contribute to the reflection of the group.
Read more here:
We, museum professionals, want to express our full solidarity with our Ukrainian colleagues.
The International Council of Museums – ICOM International – called, on Thursday 24 February, in a clear
statement, for respect for the 1954 Hague Convention and its first protocol to protect cultural heritage in this
armed conflict.
All actions contrary to the maintenance of good relations and peace, maximally, the armed invasion of a
country, must be resolutely condemned and the museums, which are the guardians of our common cultural
heritage, also preserving the testimonies of the dark periods in our history, must be the first to proclaim the
hope that they will not be repeated.
Nous, professionnels de musées, voulons exprimer notre entière solidarité à l’égard de nos collègues
ukrainiens.
Le Conseil international des musées – ICOM International – a appelé, le jeudi 24 février, dans une déclaration
claire, au respect de la Convention de La Haye de 1954 et de son premier protocole pour protéger le patrimoine
culturel dans ce conflit armé.
Toutes actions contraires au maintien de bonnes relations et de la paix, et plus encore, l’invasion armée d’un
pays, doivent être résolument condamnées et les musées, qui sont les gardiens de notre patrimoine culturel
commun, en préservant également les témoignages des périodes sombres de notre histoire, doivent être les
premiers à proclamer l’espoir que celles-ci ne se répèteront pas.
Nosotros, profesionales de los museos, queremos expresar nuestra plena solidaridad con nuestros colegas
ucranianos.El Consejo Internacional de Museos – ICOM International – llamó, el jueves 24 de febrero, en un claro
comunicado, al respeto del Convenio de La Haya de 1954 y su primer protocolo para proteger el patrimonio
cultural en este conflicto armado.
Toda acción contraria al mantenimiento de las buenas relaciones y la paz, como la invasión armada de un país,
debe ser resueltamente condenada y los museos, que son los guardianes de nuestro patrimonio cultural
común, conservando también los testimonios de los períodos oscuros de nuestra historia, deben ser los
primeros en proclamar la esperanza de que no se repitan.
We / Nous / Nosotros,
ICOM Bosnia | ICOM Croatia | ICOM Georgia | ICOM Greece | ICOM Italy | ICOM Israel | ICOM France |
ICOM Luxemburg | ICOM Portugal | ICOM Romania | ICOM Spain | ICOM UK
ICOM Ethics
ICOM EUROPE | ICOM NORD | ICOM SEE
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READ MORE HERE: https://icom.museum/en/news/5-good-reasons-to-join-icom/
Call For SPEAKER(S)
Are you a museum professional interested in or dealing with an ethical dilemma? Would you like to discuss this with your colleagues? We invite you to be a speaker or speakers of our virtual open platform dicussions!
You can find all information about the IC Ethics Meeting Room and what to consider as a speaker moderating in these documents:
Please find all information below or on our IC Ethics Meeting Room page.
(French and Spanish versions are coming soon!)
More information about the IC Ethics Meeting Room series, following and previous events as well as the recordings of the introductions >> on this page.
current challenges for the management and leadership of ICOM International
IC Ethics, among many other International and National Committees of ICOM, Regional Alliances, Standing Committees and Working Groups is fully supportive of ICOMs recent work advancing transparency, inclusion, diversity, democracy and sustainability, and we encourage all ICOM members and the leadership to continue and strengthen the work.
Following worrying developments, IC Ethics issued an open letter to the President, Executive Board and General Director of ICOM in June 2020:
Information on current developments, the correspondence between the committees and the leadership, as well as a large number of documents are now gradually available to all members of ICOM in the members area https://icom-museum.force.com/.
About IC Ethics
As dedicated museum professionals and ICOM members, we see the need for a broad and open debate about ethical dilemmas. With the new importance of museums as societal actors, ethical dilemmas are among the most relevant working fields. We believe that IC Ethics will be an essential and important addition to the International Committees of ICOM.
As an International Committee, it will be an open forum on ethical dilemmas for all museum professionals, a forum for reflection, discussion and sharing, thereby helping museum professionals to make more informed choices.
IC Ethics has been officially founded in Kyoto/Japan on Tuesday, 4th of September 2019, after being approved by the ICOMs Executive Board in July 2019. The initiators have received 171 Letters of Support from 38 different countries and four continents. In addition, five National Committees have supported the initiative with written statements.
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