The conference will also help to support and enhance the various projects developed by UNESCO in South-East Europe to promote quality museum management, intercultural dialogue and sustainable development.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN DHAKA

The museum's management said it had already asked for more assistance from police to deal with the problem.

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One of main qualities of the Seminar was the combination of theoretic speeches, devoted to issues of the museum security sphere management, practical lectures, which described existent technologies, and equipment demonstration.

UNESCO: The Second International Seminar on Museum Security and Methods of the 1970 UNESCO Convention Implementation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The Tuol Sleng Museum personnel lack capacity and management skills, which is the case of many Cambodian institutions.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

"There are those of us who genuinely love these things and see something in them that a lot of people don't see, but it doesn't really convert to a commercial reality, " says Donald Kelly, the former executive director of the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, who now runs Intellectual Asset Management Associates, a Washington, D.

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The participants are to re-scope the mission of the World Heritage-related site museums in the contemporary world, by means of collective reflection and practical exercise for the enhanced and holistic interpretation of collections, collection management, development of participative approach for local communities, and museum visitor studies.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Speaking of her responsibilities as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal National Museum, Princess Sumaya raised the need to develop a regulatory framework that would enhance the overall responsibility of national museums in the long term preservation and management of national cultural heritage landmarks, stressing the moral obligation each national museum holds with respect to its national heritage.

UNESCO: The Director-General met with HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization