The museum has traditionally been a space in which material treasures of the past is collected and displayed. This view on the role of museums have been changing over the years and in 1974, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) with endorsement from UNESCO devised a definition of a museum as:

“A non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits for purposes of study, education and enjoyment material evidence of humankind and its environment’.

Thus, museums in general are still known as keeper in safeguarding invaluable national treasures that are irreplaceable. Respectively museums are also center of learning in an informal way. Resources and museum objects educate and enlighten the human spirit through various genres of museums that include history, art, science or natural history.

When discussing museums, it should be seen from a wider scope and transcends artifacts on display only. The existence of museums on principal feed the needs on education, conservation, and preservation of history, culture and natural history as well as tourism. Certain ethics and policies regarding museum functions such as Acquisition, Research, Exhibition Technique and Concept, Conservation Methods and Education and Enrichment should be drafted and became cores to museum professionals.

The management of a certain museum is driven base on these principals and should be in line with the museum’s mission, objectives and functions. There are no specific rules on the formation of the organization but it must follow the museum’s needs such as management, financial, publication, editorial, training, records, archives, public relations, marketing and information technology. Organization is essential and should be flexible and adaptable to changes and specialization of the museum.

Conservation methods and concepts is another important aspect in collection management. As keeper in safeguarding national treasures, the existence of museums is void without its collection. Collection provides identity and enhanced popularity to the museums. A reputation of a museum depends largely on its vital collection and methods use to disseminate them through exhibition techniques, interpretation programs, marketing and publication on various mediums.

Museology is a vast field that engaged a diffusion of knowledge interacting with one another in developing and establishing a resource center as well as a learning center that focused on national heritage. Museum as a whole is bridging the past for the future.