International committee for museums and collections of science and technology – CIMUSET ICOM : past activities and prospects for future direction (including in the context of Czech technical museums and activities)

Abstract

The article summarizes information about the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology CIMUSET, which is one of the oldest independent professional units within the organizational structure of ICOM. It focuses on changes in the concept and goals of CIMUSET in the past, specific activities and projects, but also the vision of further development. The aim of the authors of the contribution is also to draw attention to the possibility of getting involved in the activities of this committee, because the issue of preserving and using the cultural heritage of science and technology is a matter of a much wider spectrum of museum and memory institutions, not only specialized museums and science centres.