ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the importance of the ICOM International Committee for Museology - ICOFOM for founding, disseminating, and consolidating Museology as a scientific discipline. This exploratory and descriptive research was carried out based on a bibliographic and documentary review, and content data analysis. The history of ICOFOM was divided into three periods, based on three of its key publications: the Museological Working Papers (MuWoP) period, which laid down the theoretical bases for Museology as a scientific;discipline; the ICOFOM Study Series (ISS), ICOFOM’s most important journal, published still today, enhancing the breadth and scope of discussions worldwide, and disseminating the idea of Museology as a relevant - discipline to museums; and finally, the Dictionnaire, fruit of an old idea within ICOM of creating a controlled glossary of specific terms for Museology. The latter participated in the consolidation of a discipline first introduced in the twentieth century, based on a hegemonic group within this committee, which claimed for itself the protagonism of such action.
KEYWORDS:
Museology; ICOM; ICOFOM; Scientific discipline