"The purposes of lCOMAM are on the one hand to establish and, to maintain contact between museums and institutions open to the public and mainly concerned with the conservation of artefacts in the fields of: arms and armour, artillery, fortifications, uniforms and flags and on the other hand to foster the study of such artefacts. Thus, it is the only international organisation of its kind dealing comprehensively with this particular subject matter in the field of museology." Mit einer Liste aller angegliederten Museen.