Foreword. ICOFOM’s commitment to a new museum definition

This new issue of ICOFOM Study Series was first conceived in Kyoto, Japan, after the ICOFOM plenary that discussed the museum definition prior to the ICOM Extraordinary Assembly of September 7, 2019. In that moment, we witnessed possibly the greatest dispute over a museum definition in ICOM history, and the increase of some frictions that would be both conceptual and political within this organisation. In an optimistic interpretation of the recent past, the General Conference in Kyoto represe..