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Международный Комитет по коллекциям и деятельности Музеев Городов, сокращенно - КАМОК, является самым молодым Международным Комитетом ICOM.

Это - форум для людей, которые работают в музеях городов или интересуются городскими музеями, планированием города, его историей, экономикой, архитектурой или географией, всеми аспектами городской жизни для того,чтобы вместе разделить знание и опыт, обменяться идеиями и
распространять накопленный опыт по всему миру.

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。

Das Internationale Komitee fűr die Sammlungen und Tätigkeiten der stadtspezifischen Museen, CAMOC genannt, ist das jűngste internationale Komitee des ICOM

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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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.

Le Comité International d'ICOM pour les Collections et les Activités des Musées de Ville, CAMOC, est le comité d'ICOM le plus récent.

Ce comité constitue une tribune pour les personnes qui travaillent dans les musées consacrés aux villes dans lesquelles ils se situent, ainsi que pour les personnes qui s'y intéressent, historiens, urbanistes, économistes, architectes ou géographes ayant connaissances et expertise à échanger à ce sujet, et qui sont en mesure de créer des liens sur un plan international.

O Comité Internacional para as Colecções e Actividades dos Museus de Cidade (CAMOC, em sigla) é o mais recent Comité Internacional do Conselho Internacional de Museus (ICOM).

Este Comité pretende ser um forum de encontro tanto para aqueles que trabalham em museus de cidade como os que se interessam pelas suas actividades, especialistas em planeamento urbano, economistas, arquitectos or geógrafos, tendo assim a possibilidade de disseminar conhecimento e experiência, trocar impressões e ideas e explorar possibilidades de trabalho conjunto com institutições congéneres além fronteiras.

El Comité Internacional de Colecciones y Actividades de Muesos de Ciudades, CAMOC en abreviación, es el más reciente Comité Internacional de ICOM.

Es un foro para la gente que trabaja en los museos dedicados a ciudades o se interesa en ellos, así como para planificadores urbanos, historiadores, economistas, arquitectos o geógrafos, pudiendo todos ellos compartir conjuntamente conocimientos y experiencia, intercambiar ideas y explorar asociaciones o colaboraciones a través de las fronteras internacionales.

Museums of cities
Музеи городов
Musées de ville
Museos de ciudades
Museus de cidade
Museen der Städte
国际博物馆协会城市博物馆专业委员会简介

국제도시박물관위원회

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is a non-governmental organisation of museums and museum professionals based in Paris which is, to put it briefly, concerned with museums and their contribution to society.

ICOM has formal relations with UNESCO and it carries out part of UNESCO's programme for museums. It also has a consultative status with the United Nations' Economic and Social Council. ICOM’s activities revolve around 116 National Committees in countries across the world and 30 International Committees.

The latest International Committee to be set up is CAMOC: the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities. It owes its origins to the initiative of Moscow City Museum and museum professionals in other countries who felt the need for a Committee which would focus on museums of the city.

The Committee also reflects the growing focus world wide on cites: their economic importance, their spectacular growth and the problems and possibilities they present. The matters for debate on the city are almost endless: pollution, regeneration, the private car, public transport, the flight to the suburbs, the destruction of heritage, insensitive development. The Committee aims to be at the centre of this debate, not least through supporting and encouraging museums of cities in their work of collecting, preserving and presenting original material on the city’s past, present and future, work which can reinforce the city’s identity and contribute to its development.

The Committee was approved by ICOM’s Executive Council during the ICOM General Conference held in Seoul in October 2004. Then, at a meeting in Moscow in April 2005 organised by Irina Smagina and her colleagues at Moscow City Museum delegates from 13 countries drafte

CAMOC's next conference will be held at the Museum of Vancouver which is the largest urban history

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What exactly is a smarter city? What can we expect to see in 10 years time? The thinking behind

IBM's smarter cities project can be seen on S635caEgkl8 It's already in operation in Rio de Janiero

where an IBM Smarter Cities Unit was opened in 2010. Rio is the venue for our 2013 conference.

What's it like to live in Delhi, New York, Ottawa, Portland or Cardiff? Local people get their say on these

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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.

"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

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

Summary proceedings of the CAMOC conference in Shanghai. Shanghai History Museum

projects and, among many other things, urbanism. It's activities are based in two

iconic districts of Istanbul:Beyoğlu and Galata. One of its latest ventures has been

The Making Of Beyoğlu, a series of workshops examining case studies in Beyoğlu.

You can check it out on a first rate web site: www.saltonline.org SALT's related

web site is more or less a virtual museum of Istanbul and is of exceptional flair and

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




How to contact CAMOC Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla faci Introduction - Venice - Volos - Cardiff - São Paulo - Copenhagen Museum of the month - Previous features CAMOC publications Международный Комитет по коллекциям и деятельности Музеев Городов, сокращенно - КАМОК, является самым молодым Международным Комитетом ICOM. Это - форум для людей, которые работают в музеях городов или интересуются городскими музеями, планированием города, его историей, экономикой, архитектурой или географией, всеми аспектами городской жизни для того,чтобы вместе разделить знание и опыт, обменяться идеиями и распространять накопленный опыт по всему миру. 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。 Das Internationale Komitee fűr die Sammlungen und Tätigkeiten der stadtspezifischen Museen, CAMOC genannt, ist das jűngste internationale Komitee des ICOM 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. More about CAMOC and ICOM - Joining the Committee - Executive Board - List of Members introduction - Next Conference - Conference Reports 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. Le Comité International d'ICOM pour les Collections et les Activités des Musées de Ville, CAMOC, est le comité d'ICOM le plus récent. Ce comité constitue une tribune pour les personnes qui travaillent dans les musées consacrés aux villes dans lesquelles ils se situent, ainsi que pour les personnes qui s'y intéressent, historiens, urbanistes, économistes, architectes ou géographes ayant connaissances et expertise à échanger à ce sujet, et qui sont en mesure de créer des liens sur un plan international. O Comité Internacional para as Colecções e Actividades dos Museus de Cidade (CAMOC, em sigla) é o mais recent Comité Internacional do Conselho Internacional de Museus (ICOM). Este Comité pretende ser um forum de encontro tanto para aqueles que trabalham em museus de cidade como os que se interessam pelas suas actividades, especialistas em planeamento urbano, economistas, arquitectos or geógrafos, tendo assim a possibilidade de disseminar conhecimento e experiência, trocar impressões e ideas e explorar possibilidades de trabalho conjunto com institutições congéneres além fronteiras. El Comité Internacional de Colecciones y Actividades de Muesos de Ciudades, CAMOC en abreviación, es el más reciente Comité Internacional de ICOM. Es un foro para la gente que trabaja en los museos dedicados a ciudades o se interesa en ellos, así como para planificadores urbanos, historiadores, economistas, arquitectos o geógrafos, pudiendo todos ellos compartir conjuntamente conocimientos y experiencia, intercambiar ideas y explorar asociaciones o colaboraciones a través de las fronteras internacionales. Museums of cities Музеи городов Musées de ville Museos de ciudades Museus de cidade Museen der Städte 国际博物馆协会城市博物馆专业委员会简介 국제도시박물관위원회 The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is a non-governmental organisation of museums and museum professionals based in Paris which is, to put it briefly, concerned with museums and their contribution to society. ICOM has formal relations with UNESCO and it carries out part of UNESCO's programme for museums. It also has a consultative status with the United Nations' Economic and Social Council. ICOM’s activities revolve around 116 National Committees in countries across the world and 30 International Committees. The latest International Committee to be set up is CAMOC: the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities. It owes its origins to the initiative of Moscow City Museum and museum professionals in other countries who felt the need for a Committee which would focus on museums of the city. The Committee also reflects the growing focus world wide on cites: their economic importance, their spectacular growth and the problems and possibilities they present. The matters for debate on the city are almost endless: pollution, regeneration, the private car, public transport, the flight to the suburbs, the destruction of heritage, insensitive development. The Committee aims to be at the centre of this debate, not least through supporting and encouraging museums of cities in their work of collecting, preserving and presenting original material on the city’s past, present and future, work which can reinforce the city’s identity and contribute to its development. The Committee was approved by ICOM’s Executive Council during the ICOM General Conference held in Seoul in October 2004. Then, at a meeting in Moscow in April 2005 organised by Irina Smagina and her colleagues at Moscow City Museum delegates from 13 countries drafte *City Museums: Collections\|Connections Vancouver 24-26 October 2012* Photo courtesy Tourism Vancouver A conference on city museums and their engagement with city life CAMOC's next conference will be held at the Museum of Vancouver which is the largest urban history museum in Canada. www.museumofvancouver Click here for details: Call for Papers April ______________________________________________________________________ Newsletters Current newsletter: Previous newsletters: CAMOC 2012 01 CAMOC Newsletter 03 CAMOC Newsletter July 2011 CAMOC Newsletter 2011 ______________________________________________________________________ Museum of the City www.museumofthecity.org The web site created by our member, Professor Chet Orloff. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Smarter cities What exactly is a smarter city? What can we expect to see in 10 years time? The thinking behind IBM's smarter cities project can be seen on S635caEgkl8 It's already in operation in Rio de Janiero where an IBM Smarter Cities Unit was opened in 2010. Rio is the venue for our 2013 conference. ______________________________________________________________________ The lives of others What's it like to live in Delhi, New York, Ottawa, Portland or Cardiff? Local people get their say on these sites: www.thedelhiwalla.com www.everypersoninnewyork.blogspot.com www.helloottawa www.iliveherepdx.com www.wearecardiff.wordpress.com ______________________________________________________________________ CAMOC'S Conference in Berlin November 2011 _________________________________________________ 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. The programme is on Programme Berlin pfd 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 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 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. _____________________________________________________ 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 History Museum 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. ______________________________________________________ SALT, Istanbul SALT is a centre for exhibitions, conferences, public programmes, research projects and, among many other things, urbanism. It's activities are based in two iconic districts of Istanbul:Beyoğlu and Galata. One of its latest ventures has been The Making Of Beyoğlu, a series of workshops examining case studies in Beyoğlu. You can check it out on a first rate web site: www.saltonline.org SALT's related web site is more or less a virtual museum of Istanbul and is of exceptional flair and imagination: www.becomingistanbul.org ______________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________ Some previous meetings: Shanghai 2010 Shanghai city centre Our conference organiser Zhang Lan Shanghai - the conference One of our Shanghai conference excursions was to Tongli, a water town in the Yangtse basin. It has been regenerated by our keynote speaker, Professor Ruan Ysan.He has been recognised by UNESCO for his urban regeneration work in China Istanbul 2009 Istanbul 2009 Board meeting in Bolgar, Tatarstan 2008 Seoul 2008 Seoul 2008 Delegates from Malaysia, Korea and India Some of us on an excursion to Klosterneuburg, Vienna 2007 Boston 2006 Moscow 2005. CAMOC's first meeting To join CAMOC click on Introduction at the top of this page, then click on Joining the Committee. You can also go directly to www.icom ____________________________________________________________________