This Code of Ethics for Museum Friends and Volunteers was unanimously adopted at the IX International Congress of Friends of Museums in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1996. The CFFM played a great role in its creation and adoption. As members of the World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM), we promise to abide by this code.

Introduction

Friends and volunteers of museums pursue noble objectives in cultural development

Volunteers bring to museums their support, their knowledge, their experience and their competence. In so doing, they contribute to the advancement both of museums and of museology. Their commitment is the voluntary expression of a solidarity that actively engages their role as citizens in the community.

As members of the museum community, and at the heart of the museum’s public, friends and volunteers constitute a privileged audience, able to represent the public’s interests to the best advantage of museum institutions.

Moreover, the status of friends and volunteers in museums implies certain obligations toward the institution of which they bear the name and to which they declare adherence. They agree, therefore, to meet a number of requirements conducive to ensuring a fruitful collaboration.

It is important that the institution, for its part, acknowledges the value of their contribution and assists in its implementation, in that a fully productive collaboration depends on the quality of their mutual relationship.

By using this Code of Ethics, friends and volunteers of museums will establish the principles that inspire their partnership and express their expectations regarding the institutions they serve.

WFFM Code of ethics
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