Benefits for ICOM-CC’s Members
Benefits of becoming an ICOM member
As a member of ICOM, you are already entitled to a number of benefits, an important one being the ICOM card which grants free entry or entry at a reduced rate to many museums across the world (for a complete list of benefits see icom.museum/individual.html and icom.museum/institutional.html).
Benefits of becoming an ICOM-CC member
By joining the ICOM Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC), one of ICOM’s 30 International Committees, you become part of one of the largest international networks of conservation professionals, which aims to promote the investigation, analysis and conservation of culturally and historically significant works of our cultural past and to further the goals of the conservation profession.
In addition to the benefits for ICOM members, ICOM-CC members are entitled to:
- the ICOM-CC Newsletter.
- Membership of Working Group(s) including subscription to Working Group Newsletters.
- Reduced registration fees at the ICOM-CC Triennial Meetings and Interim Meetings of Working Groups.
- Priority to have papers/posters accepted at the ICOM-CC Triennial Meetings (in case of papers/poster of equal merits).
- Second level access to the ICOM-CC website, providing all-time access to documents such as newsletters and Working Group membership lists, and participation in discussion lists.
- Voting rights for matters such as the election of the Directory Board members and Working Group Coordinators.
- Eligibility to stand for office within the ICOM-CC structure as a Directory Board member or Working Group Coordinator.
ICOM members who have chosen another International Committee to vote in but also want to be part of ICOM-CC are entitled to the above benefits, except the last two.
Becoming a (student)friend of ICOM-CC
People who cannot join ICOM can join ICOM-CC by becoming a Friend of ICOM-CC or a Student-Friend of ICOM-CC. These members are also entitled to the benefits for ICOM-CC members, except the last two. They are not entitled to any of the benefits of ICOM members.