ICOM Portugal and ICOM Europe are jointly organising on 5 and 6 April, at the Museu Nacional de Etnologia in Lisbon, a Conference to promote the exchange of knowledge related to the diversity of public policies towards museums and its relations with the financial and economic, but most of all, social and cultural crisis currently developing in Europe, as well as to reflect on possible ways to overpass it, anticipating the emerging framework.. President of the Croatian National Committee dr. Lidija Nikočević will discuss national policy towards museums in Croatia.