Over
the past twenty years ICOM has been fostering a broader
professional practice in heritage management that includes
tangible and intangible heritage. At the ICOM General Conference
in Barcelona, July 2001, several meetings emphasised the
need to develop a range of methods for identifying and managing
resources, both tangible and intangible. ICOM also has an
important contribution to make in the drafting of the Convention
on Intangible Heritage that UNESCO is currently preparing.
ICOM commitment to protecting intangible
heritage is shown in the fact that the theme of the General
Conference of ICOM in 2004 in Seoul, Korea, is Intangible
Heritage.
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