International
Council of African Museums
International
Council of African Museums
AFRICOM is a non-governmental, autonomous and pan-African organization of museums (NGO) created in october 1999 in Lusaka, Zambia.
AFRICOM headquarters is based in Nairobi:
Museum Hill, P.O. Box 38706,
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel. 254 - 2 - 3748668
Fax. 254 - 2 -3748928
E-mail: africom@museums.or.ke
Executive Director: Mrs.
Lorna Abungu
AFRICOM promote the participation of museums in the context of global and sustainable development, strengthen networks for collaboration and cooperation among museum professionals in Africa and abroad, and lastly, involve all components of society in the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage.
The basis for AFRICOM has been established through an ICOM programme for Africa implemented by museums in Africa and coordinated by ICOM under the supervision of an African Coordinating Committee. The initiative grew out of the Encounters What Museums for Africa? Heritage in the Future organised, in 1991, by ICOM in Lomé (Togo).
More about the International Council of African Museums:
Objectives
and MissionAFRICOM
Board of Directors 1999 - 2002Programme
and ActivitiesICOM
and AFRICOM : from ICOM's programme for Africa to the International Council
of African Museums AFRICOM
activities 1991-1999 Books
published by ICOM within the framework of the AFRICOM programmeArticles
published by Museums International on the museums in Africa
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