EDITORIAL

pondering over this matter dates back for thirty years, both as a university professor and as someone interested in Museology, especially museology of sciences. Through these years I tried to demonstrate- by thoughts and practice- the reciprocal interest of the integration of museums in universities. University museums therefore acquire a certain specificity within the general museum panorama that entirely justifies the creation of this new international committee of ICOM, the 'University Museum and Collections' (UMAC), aimed at uniting these museums and reflecting on their common problems. It is true that each university museum can join the particular ICOM's committee that better corresponds to its speciality; however, considered altogether, university museums transversely 'cross ' all committees. We can try to answer the question above, 'what is a university museum? ' by stating the obvious an