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Who will Guard Collective Memory?
by Martin R. Schärer
Director of the Alimentarium-Musée de l'alimentation, Vevey, Switzerland
Member of the ICOM Executive Council
The Real Cost of Turning Museums into Businesses
by Giovanni Pinna
Member of the ICOM Executive Council
Developments in Museum Management in Japan
by Koichi Igarashi
Vice-Chairperson of ICOM-Japan
The Growth of Museum Associations in Russia
by Vladimir Tolstoy
President of the Association of Museum Workers of Russia
Director of the State Museum and Reserve "Yasnaya Polyana"
Museums in America
by Jane Piasecki
Chair, Museum Management Committee of AAM
How to Survive: the Museum of the Book in Holland
by Marie Christine van der Sman
Director of Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum
Bibliography
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ICOM News
, Vol. 545, No. 2, 2002.
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