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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.

To join CAMOC and take part in its activities click on Introduction at the top of this page, then on Joining the Committee. Otherwise go directly to www.icom

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

This year the triennial conferences of ICOM and its International Committees takes place in Rio.

Rio is living through the biggest urban transformation in its history. The ICOM conference is one

of a string of international events which Rio is host to. In 2012 it was the venue for the United

Nations conference on sustainable development. In 2014 it will be one of Brazil's host cities for

the World Football Cup and in 2016 it will be the home of the Olympics and Paralympics. The

consequence is adramaticdaily transformation of the city. It is a unique moment in the city's

ICOM's conference will take place on 10-17 August 2013. Our Brazilian partners are well

advanced in their planning and the full programme will be provided very soon on this site:

Cidade das Artes, the ICOM conference venue, under construction. The architect is the Paris based Christian de

Portzamparc. The building opened on January 3 with Rock in Rio,the Musical. The official opening is in May. It

covers 97,000 sq metres in Barra da Tijuca in the western section of Rio, where the Olympic Park is now being

The Cidade das Artes from another angle. It is situated at the junction of Av. das Americas with Av.Ayrton Senna

and near the Alvorado bus station. ©Andre_VIERA_9510retouch. See also www.portzamparc.com

2. The CAMOC conference with ICLAM, MINOM, the Favela Museum and the Municipality

To make the best of the opportunities that the ICOM Triennial Conference presents,CAMOC will

Museums (memory + creativity) = social change and The Role of Urban Revitalisation in

Generating Social Capital. Both relate to CAMOC's other joint projects: "Insight Favela - Museum

of the Favela" and "Live from Rio: Revitalisation as an Engine of Growth". Then a joint session -

Confêrencia do CAMOC. as TEXTuras da CIDADE: a cidade na literature e no museu

The theme has been chosen in conjunction with ICLM, ICOM's international committee for

Literary Museums. Both committees will be looking for proposals for papers, presentations and

workshops that deal with the relationship between writers and the city. We will have joint

With MINOM (the Movement for a New Museology) and the Favela Museum we will be collaborating

on our joint project "Insight Favela - Museum of the Favela". This is an exciting development which

started last year. It consists of a day of observations, interviews and recordings in the Pavãozinho

Favela. There will have to be a limit on the number of participants for this day in the favela.

CAMOC will collaborate with the Municipality for the project we’ve called “Live from Rio:

Revitalisation as an Engine of Growth”. The project involves a tour of the Porto Maravilha urba

regeneration site with contributions from urban architects who have developed the official plan

3. Chamada de trabalhos | Convocatoria de Ponencias |Требования к докладам | Call for Papers

It will be a full programme and we look forward to your papers and presentations on any of these

We have expanded on the themes in our Call for Papers and explained what we'd like from you.

Corcovado, the pavement by Roberto Burle Marx on Copacabana, Rio Branco, the Botanic Gardens ©Ian Jones

Never been there? Rio de Janeiro is one of the world's most spectacular, vivid and rewarding

cities and we aim to create a memorable conference,not least because cities are a city museum's

The city is plastered with icons: Copacabana, Ipanema, Corcovado, the Botanic Gardens, the

favelas, bossa nova, Tom Jobim, Zico, the Maracanã stadium (now being prepared for the 2014

World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympics) - and best of all the people, the Cariocas.

In 2012, Rio and its setting were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To understand why,

take the ferry across Guanabara Bay to Niterói and walk up to the contemporary art gallery by the

late Oscar Niemeyer. It's a very long walk, but at the end you are rewarded with one of the most

dramatic urban and natural landscapes on the planet. This next video is a memorial to Oscar

Niemeyer, whose buildings are all over Rio. Towards the end (1:13:55) there are shots of the inside

and exterior of this remarkable gallery, as well as views over the Bay: watch?v=X078KFCFLsM

At the Niterói end of the ferry terminal is Niemeyer's arts centre, now finally completed.

Yet, at the same time Rio is a vast working city, the headquarters Petrobras and home to a string

of Brazilian and international companies, and the second largest city in one of the world's fastest

developing economies. Rio Branco in Centro gives a flavour of this other Rio- a commercial centre,

but with Belle Epoque masterpieces scattered around like the Confeitaria Colombo in Rua Gonçalves

Each area of Rio is different and each has its own character - Centro, Zona Norte, Zona Sul, and

districts like Leblon, Barra da Tijuca, Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, and the favelas. It has extremes of

It is almost impossible to sum up the city and its 11 million + inhabitants, but one of the best

accounts is by Roy Castro.The English edition is titled:Rio de Janeiro:Carnival under Fire (London:

Bloomsbury 2003). See also our latest Newsletter where we describe our city museum project, a

project which is being carried out in partnership with the municipality of Rio and ICOM Brazil.

We should also mention the many museum projects underway: for example,the Museu do Amanhã/

Museum of Tomorrow designed by Santiago Calatrava and the Museu da Imagem e do Som/

Museum of Image and Sound by Diller Scofidio + Renfro on Copacabana - all part of the build up

A postcript: Rio has an energetic young Mayor, Eduardo Paes who was elected in 2008. Among his

many new programmes are Morar Carioca the favela regeneration project; the Bus Rapid Transit

system, and the IBM smart cities project, Rio's nerve centre, which co-ordinates city services

from transport to weather forecasts making Rio one of the world's first "smart" cities. You can hear

his views on Rio and the city of the future on www.ted.com Click his name in the search box.

Rio rapidly modernising its transport system and it is now becoming a cycling city with a bike hire

scheme as in London and Paris. Cycling in Rio is easy- apart from the favelas it is flat. See bikerio

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

In Rio we will have a new Executive Board. We look forward to new members and if you would like

There is also a full report in the February issue of the CAMOC newsletter - see below.

Our previous newsletter is at CAMOC Newsletter 2013_01 This is where you get more information about

An accout of the first meeting to launch CAMOC's city museum/urban centre project in Rio de Janeiro

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Our latest book has now been published as a 184 page illustrated ebook. It is a

collection of essays on cities and museums about them, drawn from our conferences

"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

"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

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

The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics is an international centre

dedicated to the understanding of urban life. Much of its work is of direct relevance to

the interests of CAMOC and its range of publications on cities and city life is exceptional.

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

University,Director emeritus Orgeon Historical Society,former CAMOC Board member

Vienna 2007. Irina Smagina,Burkhard von Roda,Director of the Basel History Museum,

London: Olympic City 2012. Near the Olympic Park. An opinion not necessarily shared