Commission on Museums

Strategy: The IMA-CM was established to link the mineralogical sections of museums around the world. The best specimens of minerals, and those described for the first time, are often collected in museums, and the history of mineralogy is intimately bound to the history of museum mineral collections.

The IMA Commission on Museums has officially endorsed the Society of Mineral Museum Professionals as the organization to unite mineral museum curators world-wide.

Current website: https://www.ima-cm.org/about

Officers:

Chairman: Michael RUMSEY, Mineralogical Collections Curator, Mineralogy Department, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UNITED KINGDOM

Vice-Chairman: Stuart MILLS, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne 3001, AUSTRALIA

Secretary: Kim TAIT, Mineralogy Department, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C6, CANADA

IMA commission on museum has a sub-commission dedicated to Type Minerals (IMA-CM-CTMS).

IMA-CM-CTMS chair: Nicholas MEISSER, Musée cantonal de Géologie BFSH2, CH ­ 1015 Lausanne, SWITZERLAND