Mission

ICOM Australia promotes and supports:

• international collaboration between museums and museum workers championing acceptance, understanding, sharing and exchange of ideas and resources
• understanding of global museum values and issues
• the work of colleagues in Australasia, Asia and the Indo-Pacific region
• the recognition and rewarding of good international museum practice and innovation
• the interests of members.

Values

ICOM Australia recognises and acts upon the following core values:

• the power of  human creativity and its contribution to understanding the past, shaping the present, and mapping the future
• the importance of global dialogue based on cultural and social diversity
• transparent dialogue about cross-cultural understanding and human rights
• the need for engagement with public issues of social change.

We are a not-for-profit member organisation.