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- Brings professional counterparts together from all over the world
for regular conferences, creating a strong network of maritime museum
professionals.
- Organizes a week-long International Congress every three years, at
maritime sites around the world. Lectures, workshops, discussions, and
site visits cover a variety of issues of concern to maritime museums.
Companionable after-hours sessions and excursions add to the strength
of contacts formed at the conferences.
- Offers an Interim Congress, focused on the maritime heritage of the
host region, each year between Triennial Congresses.
- Provides a focal point of contact and professional help for museums,
large and small. ICMM offers technical assistance on ship and boat preservation;
opportunities to exchange collections or staff; loan exhibitions; planning,
research, educational programming, and public relations; and procurement
of supplies for maritime preservation projects.
- Publishes a regular newsletter and posts a website to support the
flourishing international network of maritime museums. These media inform
members and the public of maritime museum events and developments worldwide
- By developing guidelines for the documentation and preservation of
historic ships and boats.
- By providing standards and guidelines for underwater archaeology.
- By monitoring and nurturing maritime museums and maritime preservation
activities on an international scale.
- By providing formal and informal networks of communication, information
and advice for more than 300 member organizations and individuals.
- By developing strategies to ensure long-term public awareness and
appreciation of the significance of maritime preservation.
ICMM is a self-supporting membersí organization. Each Full Member
museum has one vote in any matter that may come before the general assembly.
ICMM is governed by a President, Vice-President, Secretary General, Treasurer
and an Executive Committee. These officers serve three-year terms; they
are nominated and elected by delegates representing the Full Member museums.
Standing Committees address specific issues of administration and international
affairs, such as membership, ship preservation and archaeology. All Full
Member museums are equally eligible to be represented on committees and
to hold executive office.
Full Member museums appoint their own delegates, with no specific limit
to the number of representatives that an institution may send to triennial
or interim congresses. Most Full Members choose to be represented by their
director or senior curator, but also send staff specialists to meetings
where their particular field of expertise is being discussed.
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