Dear ICOM MUSIC Community,

As announced, and following the vote, our IC’s short name is now ICOM MUSIC. Until the transition from CIMCIM to ICOM MUSIC is completed, you will find some inconsistencies that are also reflected in our activities as listed below.

Please, find a summary of our IC’s ongoing activities in October 2024:

1 October: CIMCIM 2024 Business Meeting, online 15:00–17:00 Paris time (CEST/UTC+2). Please, find the minutes of the meeting here!

1 October: CIMCIM membership voted successfully to revise its acronym to the short name ICOM MUSIC (official announcement forthcoming)

1 October: Launch of the International Directory of Musical Instrument Collections

8 October: Executive Board meeting (online)

8 October: Board meeting (online)

10 October: CIMCIM August / September 2024 News (CIMCIM-L, Facebook, website)

11 October: ICOM Call for Applications for the ICOM Resolutions Committee (CIMCIM-L)

18 October: CIMCIM 2023 Netherlands Proceedings, editorial team meeting (online)

29 October: ICOM webinar: Finance of the International Committees: Good practices (Board attendance)

31 October: Q&A session for the ICOM 2025 Special Projects and Solidarity Projects (Board attendance)

The ICOM MUSIC Board will meet every month, and if you have matters that you would like the Board to take up, please let us know.

To receive important information and news from ICOM, we kindly urge you to subscribe to ICOM’s Newsletter. Please, visit https://icom.museum/en/ , scroll down to “Sign up to our Newsletter”, and fill in your email address.

Have you changed your email address recently? Log in the ICOM Database and update your information – and please see the CIMCIM webpage for instructions on how to subscribe to the CIMCIM-L to receive important information and news from ICOM MUSIC.

Thank you and best wishes on behalf of the ICOM MUSIC Board,
Marie Martens
ICOM MUSIC Secretary