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The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an international organization of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible. Created in 1946, ICOM is a non-governmental organization maintaining formal relations with and having a consultative status with UNESCO. As a non-profit organization, ICOM is financed primarily by membership fees and supported by various governmental and other bodies. It carries out part of UNESCO's programme for museums. Based in Paris, France, the ICOM Headquarters houses both the ICOM Secretariat and the UNESCO-ICOM Museum Information Centre. ICOM provides the policy basis for the operation of the .museum ("dot-museum") top-level domain.
ICOM is comprised of international committees that focus on certain types of museums (e.g. history museums, military museums, ethnographic museums, art museums) and national committees that represent all the member nations. The international committees meet annually, as does the executive committee, while there is a full general conference of ICOM every three years. The first meeting was held in Paris in 1948. The most recent conference was held in Seoul in 2004, the first meeting in Asia. The next meeting will be held in Vienna in 2007.
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