Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos (ILAM), known in English as the Latin American Institute of Museums or the ILAM Foundation
is a
web portal that provides a wide variety of information relating to
museums and
park
A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are urban green space, green spaces set aside for recreation inside t ...
s in countries within
Latin America. It was founded in 1997, is based in
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
and the Director is Georgina DeCarli.
The organization's role is to improve best practices around cultural heritage within the region and serves more than 7000 organizations within the region who are not otherwise able to priorize that.
References
External links
ILAM website
Latin American culture
Museum organizations
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