History & Heritage
ICOM Croatia was founded in 1991 and was admitted to ICOM membership at General Assembly in Quebec City in 1992. The headquarters of the ICOM Croatia is currently in Zagreb at the Ethnographic Museum. Program activities are financially supported by Croatian Ministry of Culture and the Zagreb City Department of Education, Culture and Sport and since 2012 by The Istrian Region.
Croatian National Committee of ICOM is governed by Assembly as a decision-making organ that meets every year. It elects four members of the Executive Board and the President for a period of three years.
Past Presidents:
1991 – 1996. Damodar Frlan
1996 – 2002. Željko Koščević
2002 – 2005. Željka Kolveshi
2005 – 2011. Damodar Frlan
Current president
2011 – Lidija Nikočević
