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Patrick Cardon is the creator and CEO of The Museum in the Streets, a Registered and Protected Trademark.

The creation of The Museum in the Streets results from a life-time interest in history and cultural heritage. Surrounded by antiquities while growing up in Egypt, Patrick developed early on an interest in ancient mediterranean civilizations and went on to obtain degrees in Egyptology and Art History, and direct museums.

In 1985, Patrick was appointed Secretary General of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), an NGO affilitated with UNESCO, and, in 1991, he helped launch the swiss Arch Foundation on whose board he served until 1994. Both organizations focused on the protection and promotion of cultural heritage. His experience in the management and development in museums, in the organization of international exhibitions, in fundraising and negotiation with cultural agents all the over the world, prepared him in unique ways to be sensitive to the requirements of smaller institutions rich in collections but operating on modest budgets.

He thus conceived the operating philosophy of The Museum in the Streets. Each installation benefits small towns by generating social activity, economic growth and civic inter-connections between their essential collections of historic material and living memories. At a regional level, The Museum in the Streets has fostered links between towns that have an aspect of history in common (shipping, agriculture, industry, river-related growth, etc.)

As required by the museological profession, The Museum in the Streets staff offers the best advice in the management of visitors, works with the best quality materials and creates attractive but unobtrusive installations. The low-cost, high-quality Museum in the Streets installations become a cooperative adventure for a town, from the creation of the panels to their installation in the city streets.

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