Museums around the World

Founded in 1946, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) is the organization of Museums and Museum Professionals which according to its web site (http://icom.museum) “is the international organisation of museums and museum professionals which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world's natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible”. ICOM supports the Virtual Libraries Museum (VLmp) pages which according to its site is the “oldest catalogue of the web” and was started by Tim Berners Lee who was the creator of HTML.

The Museums Around the World website is part...