A review of all available codes of ethics in the field of museums and museology provides a list of seven basic responsibilities, i.e. seven entities to which museology as a profession is accountable:

• responsibility to the maker (and first users) of the object and his or her society
• responsibility to the preservation of the information value (including the aesthetic and emotional values) of the object and its physical and intellectual accessibility
• responsibility to the institute with which the official is associated, regardless of whether this association is temporary or permanent, paid or unpaid, or whether the official is employed by the institute of has volunteered his or her services
• responsibility to those who made the activities possible by financial support
• responsibility to colleagues inside and outside the institute concerned, including professionals associated with non-museum institutes such as academic researchers
• responsibility to the visitors to permanent and temporary exhibitions and to participants in other activities
• responsibility to the community as a whole, now and in the future.