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This year the Blue Shield is 25!

About our Anniversary! On 6 June 1996, Patrick Boylan (International Council of Museums – ICOM), Dinu Bumbaru (International Council on Monuments and Sites – ICOMOS), George Mackenzie (International Council on Archives —ICA) and Marie-Therese Varlamoff (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions — IFLA) concluded and signed a permanent cooperation agreement on behalf of their [...]

What is the Blue Shield?

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The blue shield is an emblem and an association. The emblem is a protective emblem specified in the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, to be used to indicate protected cultural property, and personnel engaged in the protection of cultural property in armed conflict. Emblem of [...]

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