In this world we live in, marked by the impoverishment of bodies and minds, wars, exclusions, insecurity and threats, welcome to everyone who believes and wishes, each in their own way, to contribute for a museology that is more attentive to the challenges of contemporary society.

The International Committee of Social Museology (SOMUS-IC) was born from three founding reasons:

• Desire to integrate community-based museums and museological processes within ICOM, as equal partners within the world of museology.
• Justice to promote recognition of the work and commitment of people and communities who often put their freedom and lives in danger, in many places around the world, in favor of Social Museology expressed in community museums, ecomuseums, local museums, favela museums, LGBTQI+ museums , neighborhood museums, intersectional museums among other forms of museological expressions;
• Determination, because we believe that it is possible to extend the idea and power of Social Museology to territories that do not benefit from this tool to serve Citizenship and Human Dignity.

As Alma Wittlin asked decades ago, What can museums do with regard to the unmet needs of people? (Museums: in search of a usable future. Wittlin A., 1970, p.204). Welcome to all those who believe they can contribute to responding to this challenge.