The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.
Seton Hall University, located in South Orange, NJ, is home to the Institute of Museum Ethics.
In recent years, there has been a shift in the relationship between the museum visitor and the behind-the-scenes workaday efforts of the museum professionals whose labors go mainly unnoticed by the public.
In December 2001, on a trip to New York City, my traveling companions and I visited Ground Zero.
A traveling exhbit takes on the enormous task of presenting a dialogue that summarizes the historical, scientific and cultural meanings of the concept of race. How did it do?
The IME's inaugural conference, Defining Museum Ethics brings together museum theorists, museum professionals, ethicists and legal experts to discuss what we mean by the terms transparency, accountability, and social responsibility.
This course examines how discourse and transparency can strengthen a museum’s ethical foundations
Announcing a new team-taught Museum Ethics course funded by the IMLS
The IME listserv is a forum for discussion on ethics across the spectrum of museum areas, from registration to exhibitions, education to conservation.