ICOM Guidelines and Standards for Museums

ICOM Guidelines for Loans (1974)
Documentation (CIDOC) :

CIDOC Core Data Standard for Archaeological Objects (1992)
Registration step by step: when an object enters the museum (CIDOC Fact Sheet 1, 1993)

Labelling and Marking Objects (CIDOC Fact Sheet 2, 1994)

International Guidelines for Museum Object Information: the CIDOC Information Categories (1995)

Data Standard for Ethnology/Ethnography (1996)
The AFRICOM Handbook of Standards (1996)

Introduction to CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM, 2001)

Musical Instruments (CIMCIM) :

Recommendations for Regulating the Access to Musical Instruments in Public Collections (1985)

CIMENT: Uniform Procedures for Data Element Description in CIMCIM Database Systems (1991)

Recommendations for the Application of Accession Numbers (1995)

Interpreting Musical Instruments in Museum Collections: Guidelines (1998)

Costume: Guidelines for Costume (1998)

Conservation (ICOM-CC) : The Conservator-Restorer: a Definition of the Profession (1984)

Training of Personnel (ICTOP) : Curricula Guidelines for Museum Professional Development (2000)
Museum Security (ICMS) : Guidelines for Disaster Preparedness in Museums (1993)