国际博物馆协会城市博物馆专业委员会是国际博协中最年轻的一个国际委员会。它为城市博物馆从业人员或对城市博物馆感兴趣的人员，城市规划者，历史学者，经济学者，建筑师或地理学者提供一个交流平台。通过这个平台，所有这些人可以在国际范围内分享知识、经验，交流思想，寻求合作伙伴。

Our history is to a substantial degree the description of the triumph of cities and city life.

J.John Palen

Cities are about blue people turning red people purple.

Constantinos Doxiadis

 

 

The International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities is one of ICOM's youngest International Committees.

It is a forum for people who work in or are interested in museums about cities, urban planners, historians, economists, architects or geographers, all of whom can share knowledge and experience, exchange ideas and explore partnerships across national boundaries.  In short, CAMOC is about cities and the people who live in them.

 

 

      Current newsletter: CAMOC Newsletter 03

      Other issues:

      CAMOC Newsletter 1  CAMOC Newsletter 2    

      Our Chinese branch is at www.camoc-china.com 

     See also www.museumofthecity.org

           

      

     CAMOC'S Conference in Berlin November 2011

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    In der Asphaltstadt bin ich daheim   Bertolt Brecht     

    

     Photo: Hans Peter Merten © German National Tourist Board

    

     "I am at home in the asphalt city" -a sentiment those of us in CAMOC would share:

     life in the city, asphalt, concrete or glass, is what we are about.

       Our conference in Berlin ended on Thursday evening 3 November.  It was organised

      with COMCOL, ICOM's international committee for collecting and with ICOM-Europe.

     

       The theme of the joint conference was: Partizipative Strategien/Participative Strategies

      - that is, the how and why of involving people in the museum's work of documenting

      the present.

      On the final two days we ourselves concentrated on the ways city museums

      engage people in documenting their city, in relating their own experiences of city

      living and in bearing witness to change around them. We also reflected on urban

      policies and regeneration projects and the role of city museums in shaping the city

      today and in the future.    

     

      We met in four locations across Berlin. Firstly at the impressive Museen Dahlem -

      Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/the Dahlem museums complex www.smb.  Then we

      had our own meeting in the delightful Kreuzberg Museum www.kreuzbergmuseum

     in the heart of one of Berlin's most interesting districts.

      Finally we went outside the museum walls - to the Pro qm bookshop in Kreuzberg

      www.pro-qm,and the Institut für Angewandte Urbanistik (IFAU) www.berlin.heimat

      the home of a group of pioneering, visionary urban architects.   They aim to

      translate urban difference and diversity into architectural and urban space and

      they gave us a tour of their projects in the working class district of Wedding: see

     www.exrotaprint and www.uferhallen

     

      Each location was in a different part of Berlin and we all made our own way by

      U-Bahn, S-Bahn or by bus, or on foot - which is the way to get the feel of a

      great city. 

      There were receptions at the Dahlem Museums complex, the Deutsches

      Historisches Museum/German Historical Museum on Unter den Linden and finally

      at the Rotes Rathaus/Berlin City Hall - a red brick building designed by

      Hermann Friedrich Waesemann in the 1860s and about as different a building

      from the neo-classical architecture of 19th century Berlin as you could imagine.

        Unsere deutschen Gastgeber waren alle einfach einmalig. Wir sind ihnen -

       sowie auch der Bundeshauptstadt Berlin - so dankbar/Our German hosts were

       all marvellous and we owe them a very considerable debt, as we do the city of

       Berlin.

      A report on the conference by two of our members is at Conference report 

    

     Du hast ja keine Ahnung wie shön du bist Berlin.

     Marlene Dietrich

       Ian Jones, 4 November 2011  

       A few photos:     

      

      The excellent Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin/Museum of Berlin working in the city

      www.stadtmuseum

     

      The Potsdamer Platz development covers 600,000 sq. metres and fills in the gap

      left by bombing in WW2 and the Wall.  It is made up of 18 new buildings, eight of

      which are by the architect Renzo Piano. This is a small part designed by Piano

      and on a human scale 

    

     Another part of the Potsdamer Platz development. This time forbidding - pull

      down one wall then build another in its place

    

     Kreuzberg, where we spent a day at the museum - one of Berlin's 19 district

     museums: www.regionalmuseen-berlin 

      "In comparison with London or Paris it is pitifully poor.  Yet the city sparkles with life. 

        Berlin is an expert in the art of living and surviving.   It attracts creative and

        unconventional people from East and West, and increasingly from all over the world.

        The growth factor in this city is creativity..."

        Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig, member of the Berlin Parliament

      

     On a pavement in Potsdamer Platz

    

     Four of us en route to IFAU via the S-Bahn

    

     At IFAU Photo Marlen Mouliou

    

     In situ with IFAU Photo Marlen Mouliou

    

    

    

     Photo Julia Bussinger    

    

     Photo Julia Bussinger

    

      At the Kreuzberg Museum, a friendly informal museum engaging with local people     

       

      The programme is on Programme Berlin Programme Berlin pfd

     CAMOC, das Internationale Komitee fűr die Sammlungen und Tätigkeiten der stadtspezifischen

       Museen. 

       Es soll als Forum dienen fűr all diejenigen, die im Bereich der stadtspezifischen Museen

       mitarbeiten oder sich fűr deren Arbeit interessieren: so Stadtplaner, Historiker, Őkonomen,

       Architekten und Geographen. Im Rahmen von CAMOC kőnnen sie ggf Wissen und Erfahrungen

       teilen, Ideen austauschen und Partnerschaften űber nationale Grenzen hinaus aufstellen.   

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     Publications    

     Urban Life and Museums

      Museum International: No. 231 (Vol. 58. No.3) UNESCO, Paris September 2006

      ISSN 1350 0775.   A special edition of the journal devoted to the proceedings

     of CAMOC's first conference in Boston, USA.  111pp

       City Museums and City Development

      Altamira Press,  Lanham,  New York, Toronto,  Plymouth 2008

      ISBN:978-0-7591-1180-6 189pp

      Paperback edition 2010    

       "A far more compelling book than others of its kind."  Museums Journal, London      

       "Cities need museums as people need memories: not as a repository of their past, but

        as a token of their identity and a guide to the future.  Here is a unique survey of city

        museums from five continents to stimulate discussion..."  Joseph Rykwert, author of

        The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century

      

        City Museums and the Future of the City

        Proceedings of the CAMOC conference in Seoul 2008. Museum of the History of Seoul

        Seoul 2010.   In Korean and English.  230pp               

        A Better City: the contribution of the city museum to the improvement of

        the urban condition

     Summary proceedings of the CAMOC conference in Shanghai. Shanghai 2010

     In Chinese and English. 333pp

     Museums of the City: a website

      CAMOC was awarded a grant by ICOM in 2009 to set up a web site devoted to

      museums of the city.  It's the brainchild of Professor Chet Orloff at Portland

      State University.  It's now up and running at www.museumofthecity.org 

     

      The site is still being developed and contributions are welcomed.

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     Museum of London

    

       The Museum of London, the world's largest museum of a city, is currently

      celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth with an exhibition

      about his relationship with London, the background to his greatest novels.  A film

      by William Raban traces London at night, with a commentary from Dickens's

      Night Walks written 150 years earlier, when unable to sleep he walked around the

      city, noting poverty, homelessness, and the extraordinary variety of life on the

      city streets. The similarities between past and present are uncanny.   At the

      entrance there are two exhibitions on contemporary London,   one on human

      trafficking and the other on poverty in the city.   One conclusion: the past is

      always with us, it just takes on different forms.

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       Conference in Weimar

      One of the keynote speakers at our Berlin conference, Professor Frank Eckhardt

      at the Bauhaus Unversity in Weimar, Germany is organising a conference in May

      2012 on the impact of information and communication technologies on urban life. 

      See Conference and www.mediacityproject.org  

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      Vancouver 2012 

     

      Our next annual conference will be held in Vancouver.  It will be at the City Museum, the largest urban

      history museum in Canada.  Details to follow.

     

      Photos courtesy Tourism Vancouver

     

     

      And then there is the next ICOM and CAMOC triennial...    

           

     Rio de Janeiro 2013

    

     Os ingredientes do Rio, sua tolerância,sua aceitação do diferente, sua vocação para o prazer

       e sua abertura de mente e espírito…

     Hans Donner

     Our Rio conference in June 2013 will be part of the ICOM's triennial meeting.

     Our Brazilian colleagues are well advanced in their planning and there is

     already preliminary information on www.icom.org  

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