Editing Museum (section)

===Protection===
The [[cultural property]] stored in museums is threatened in many countries by [[natural disaster]], [[war]], terrorist attacks or other emergencies. To this end, an internationally important aspect is a strong bundling of existing resources and the networking of existing specialist competencies in order to prevent any loss or damage to cultural property or to keep damage as low as possible. International partner for museums is [[UNESCO]] and [[Blue Shield International]] in accordance with the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property from 1954 and its 2nd Protocol from 1999. For legal reasons, there are many international collaborations between museums, and the local Blue Shield organizations.<ref>Cf., e.g., Marilyn E. Phelan: '' Museum Law: A Guide for Officers, Directors, and Counsel. '' 2014, p. 419 ff.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archives.icom.museum/emergency.html|title=ICOM and the International Committee of the Blue Shield|website=ICOM|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200323142530/http://archives.icom.museum/emergency.html |archive-date = 23 March 2020}}</ref>

Blue Shield has conducted extensive missions to protect museums and cultural assets in armed conflict, such as 2011 in Egypt and Libya, 2013 in Syria and 2014 in Mali and Iraq. During these operations, the looting of the collection is to be prevented in particular.<ref>Peter Stone ''Inquiry: Monuments Men.'' In: ''Apollo – The International Art Magazine.'' 2 February 2015; Mehroz Baig: ''When War Destroys Identity.'' In: ''Worldpost.'' 12 May 2014; Fabian von Posser: ''Welterbe-Stätten zerbombt, Kulturschätze verhökert.'' (German) In: ''Die Welt.'' 5 November 2013.</ref>