{"id":143,"date":"2019-01-07T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icom-canada.icom.cust.oxymium.net\/who-we-are\/our-role\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:09:55","slug":"our-role","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icom-canada.mini.icom.museum\/en\/who-we-are\/our-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Our role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"RTE_CONTENT\"> <!--TYPO3SEARCH_begin--> \t<!--  CONTENT ELEMENT, uid:982\/text [begin] --> \t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"c982\"> \t\t<!--  Text: [begin] --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b>The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is an <b>international organization of museums and museum professionals<\/b> which is committed to the conservation, continuation and communication to society of the world&#8217;s natural and cultural heritage, present and future, tangible and intangible. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Created in 1946, <a href=\"http:\/\/icom.museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICOM<\/a> is a non-governmental organization maintaining formal relations with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\" target=\"_blank\">UNESCO<\/a> and having a consultative status with the United Nations&#8217; 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