1. ICOM turns 70: ethics and the value creation role of museums / Hans-Martin Hinz. -- 2. The role of museums in the twenty-first century / Anne Catherine Robert-Hauglustaine. -- 3. The work of the ICOM Ethics Committee / Martin R. Schärer. -- 4. Charting the ethics landscape for museums in a changing world / Bernice L Murphy. -- 5. The ICOM's ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums: background and objectives / Geoffrey Lewis. -- 6. Ethical issues and standards for natural history museums / Eric Dorfman. -- 7. Reversing the de-realisation of natural and social phenomena: ethical issues for museums in a multidisciplinary context / Michel Van-Praët. -- 8. Dances with intellectual property: museums, monetization and digitization / Rina Elster Pantalony. -- 9. UNESCO's actions and international standards concerning museums / Mechtild Rossler and Nao Hayashi. -- 10. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Protection and Promotion of Museums and Collections, their Diversity and Role in Society / François Mairesse. -- 11. Protecting cultural heritage at risk: an international public service mission for ICOM / France Desmarais. -- 12. Stolen and illegally exported artifacts in collections: key issues for museums within a legal framework / Marilyn Phelan. -- 13. Advice and support in the recovery of lost art: The German Lost Art Foundation (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste) / Michael M. Franz. -- 14. Unchanging ethics in a changing world / Gary Edson. -- 15. Remodelling shared heritage and collection access: The Museum Island Constellation and Humboldt Forum Project in Berlin / Herman Parzinger. -- 16. A museum triangle: ethics, standards of care and the pleasure of perception / Dorota Folga-Januszewska. -- 17. The Chinese museum: transformation and change through ethics construction / An Laishun. -- 18. Ethics, museology and professional training in Japan / Eiji Mizushima. -- 19. Advocating for international collaborations: WWII-era provenance research in museums / Jane Milosch. -- 20. 'Definitely stolen?': why there is no alternative to provenance research in archaeological museums / Markus Hilgert. -- 21. Deaccessioning: some reflections / François Mairesse. -- 22. From Apollo into the anthropocene: the odyssey of nature and science museums in an external responsibility context / Emlyn Koster. -- 23. Ethics in a changing social landscape: community engagement and public participation in museums / Sally Yerkovitch. -- 24. Conservation: how ethics work in practice / Stephanie de Roemer. -- 25. Exhibiting contentious and difficult histories: ethics, emotions and reflexivity / Sharon Macdonald. -- 26. Native America in the twenty-first century: journeys in cultural governance and museum interpretation / W. Richard West, Jr. -- 27. Using the past to forge a future: challenges of uniting a nation against skeletal odds / Bongani Ndhlovu. -- 28. Afro-descendent heritage and its unacknowledged legacy in Latin American museum representation / Monica Gorgas. -- 29. In search of the inclusive museum / Amareswar Galla. -- 30. The Lombroso Museum in Turin: a reflection on the exhibition and scientific study of human remains / Alberto Garlandini and Stefano Montaldo. -- 31. The Auschwitz-Birkenow State Museum and an artist's claim to portraits of Holocaust victims made in Auschwitz for Josef Mengele / Vojtěch Blodig. -- 32. The mask of Ka-nefer-nefer: the complex history of an Egyptian object / Regine Schulz. -- 33. Ethics versus law: the restitution of The Miracle of St Anthony by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Aedín Mac Devitt. -- 34. Ethics in action: situational scenarios turning the keys to the Code of Ethics / Eva Maehre Lauritzen. -- Appendix I: ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. -- Appendix II: ICOM Code of Ethics for Natural History Museums. -- Appendix III: CIMAM: Principles of deaccession. -- Appendix IV: UNESCO recommendation concerning the protection and promotion of museums and collections, their diversity and their role in society.