Every year since 1977 International Museum Day is organised worldwide around May 18.
International Museum Day
This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society.
ICOM Advisory Committee organises the theme of this
event that, given the high number of countries involved, lasts a day, a
weekend, a week or even a month.
From America to Oceania including Africa, Europe and Asia, this international event has confirmed its popularity.
These recent years, International Museum Day has
been experiencing its highest involution with almost 30,000 museums that
organised activities in more than 120 countries.
The museum community decided to celebrate IMD 2013 around the theme:
Museums (Memory + Creativity) = Social Change
The richness of our historical heritage, preserved
and displayed by museums, together with the inventiveness and vitality
that have characterised the museum sector’s action in recent years, are
where the strength of museum institutions lies today. Reconciling their
traditional mission of conservation with the creativity necessary for
their revival and the development of their audiences – this is the
evolution that museums are trying to undertake, with the strong belief
that their presence and actions can transform society constructively.
This truly optimistic theme in the form of an
equation dynamically gathers several concepts that are essential to
defining what a museum is today, highlighting the universal nature of
those institutions and their positive influence on society. It
summarises the complexity of museum tasks and recalls that they are
meant to contribute to community development and gathering together
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