Museums and cultural heritage are powerful assets for local development. They can help attract tourists, bring revenue, regenerate local economies, promote inclusion, boost cultural diversity and reinvent territorial identity.

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The OECD-ICOM Guide for Local Governments, Communities and Museums is a learning, self-assessment and development tool that can be used: By local and regional governments to assess and improve their approaches to maximising the social and economic value of cultural heritage. By museums to assess and strengthen their existing and potential linkages with the local economy and social fabric. To identify concrete ways for museums, local governments and other stakeholders to partner. As a learning tool for everybody interested in culture and heritage as lever for local development. The Guide was developed by the OECD’s Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED) and the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to inform and support policy makers and the museum community in maximising the impact of culture and heritage on local development.   Learn more about the project and how to join   En savoir plus sur le projet et comment adhérer   Aprenda más sobre el proyecto y cómo unirse

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The power of museums

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THE GUIDE AND YOU

Cities, regions and countries, as well as museums can:

• Request to engage in a case study on Museums and Local Development 
• Invite the OECD and ICOM to present key findings at conferences and workshops
• Support the translation of the Guide into country language

 

ContactS

OECD - Ekaterina.Travkina@oecd.org, Coordinator, Cultural and Creative Industries & Local Development, CFE 

ICOM - Afsin.Altayli@icom.museum, Museums and Society Coordinator, ICOM Secretariat