Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency, Iran
March 25 2006

Museum & the Youth, Iran’s Slogan in the Year 1385

Members of Iran’s ICOM selected `Museum & the Youth’ as the slogan
of the new Persian year (1385 based on the solar calendar).
Tehran, 25 March 2006 (CHN) — `Museum and the Youth’ was chosen as
the slogan of Iranian New Year 1385, by the executive committee of
Iran’s International Council of Museums (ICOM) in their last meeting
of this year. In addition, the programmes of the Museums World Day
were approved.

Promoting the attitude of running museums in Iran with the
cooperation of related organizations such as Iran’s Cultural Heritage
and Tourism Organization and holding sessions to introduce the
statute of cultural properties and promoting the sense of preserving
the cultural heritage were also discussed in this meeting.

Then Seyed Mohammad Beheshti, director of Iran’s ICOM, gave the
report of establishing a national ICOM in Armenia with the
cooperation of Iran. Establishment an ICOM in Kyrgyzstan was also on
the agenda in this meeting.

In the last meeting of ICOM national committee in the year 1384
(Iranian calendar), the presence of Iranian ICOM experts in the
international committee was also discussed.