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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.
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 ICOM's newest International Committee.
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 together can share knowledge and experience, exchange ideas
and
explore partnerships
across international boundaries.
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.
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
***Shanghai 上海 7-12 November 2010***
A Better City: the contribution of the city museum
to
the improvement of the urban condition
迈向更美好的城市 城市博物馆让城市生活更美好
Our fifth annual conference will be part of ICOM's 22nd
triennial conference. Registration is already open so
please check out these web sites: English: en
French: fr Spanish: es The sites have an outline
programme and details of local
hotels. Invited speakers
include Amartya Sen and Umberto Eco.
Our own outline programme is at Draft programme
We are now calling for papers - see Call for papers
Here you will also find a detailed account of the
discussions we envisage around our theme.
The Chinese version is at Call chinese
徵求论文 Call chinese
In addition, UNESCO's magazine World Heritage No. 55
contains some relevant articles. For example: Historic
Cities - back to the future by the late H. Peter Oberland,
one of the founders of UN HABITAT; historic cities and
urban growth; social inclusion in urban settings. Those of
you who were at our Vienna conference might also like to
see the article on contemporary Vienna.
See www.unesco.org
Our organiser is Dr Lan Zhang , the Director of the
Shanghai History Museum, and his colleague Baofang
Hu. There will be a full range of tours arranged by
ICOM China, but we will have our own tour to Hanzhou
and its City Museum. Hanzhaou is 150km south-west
of Shanghai. There will also be a reception at the
Oriental Pearl TV tower which dominates Shanghai's
skyline.
We have provided a short fact sheet on Shanghai
taken from The Endless City edited by Ricky Burdett
and Deyan Sudjic, Phaidon 2007 - essential reading
for anyone interested in cities. It has three chapters
on Shanghai. See Shanghai fact sheet So...
上海見
Shanghai Expo en.expo2010
CAMOC is also taking part in the Shanghai Expo during
May-October, as one of ICOM's international committees.
The theme, Better City, Better Life, is close to the
interests of CAMOC, and the global observance of World
Habitat Day will be held at the Expo, where the
UN will have its own pavillion.
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City Museums and City Development edited by Ian Jones,
Bob Macdonald and Darryl McIntyre, and published by the
AltaMira Press is now out in paperback at $24.95, with a 15%
reduction for ICOM members. It is about cities, and ways
museums of cities can contribute to city development.
There are 15 authors from the Sorbonne to Tatarstan via
the UK, Germany, Greece, USA, Canada, Taiwan and Australia.
To order on-line go to www.altamirapress.com
"A far more compelling book than others of its kind"
Museums Journal, London
"A unique survey of city museums from the five continents"
Joseph Rykwert
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Now, to our 2009 Istanbul conference -
Collecting urban history in the electronic age
CAMOC's conference in Istanbul 28-30 September 2009
伊斯坦布尔 会议主题:电子时代收集城市历史 2009年 9月28-30日

Galata Bridge at the heart of a city of 12.6m people
Istanbul is by any standard one of the world's outstanding
cities. From the top of the Marmara Pera Hotel you have a
great urban spectacle: a sea of red roofs, plastered with
satellite dishes mixed up with the Golden Horn,the Bosphorus
and the Marmara Sea, the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque
and domes and minarets everywhere. You can walk through
a UNESCO World Heritage Site or drive across a city of tower
blocks, gated communities and shopping malls: from the
sensational to the banal. Once Byzantium, then Nova Roma,
then Constantinople, and now Istanbul. How can a museum
make sense of this mass of contradictions? It’s a challenge
worth taking on, and one reason why CAMOC exists.
This remarkable city, European Capital of Culture for 2010,
was the backdrop to our conference. Organised by
Suay Aksoy, Director for Cultural Heritage and Museums for the
Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, it took
place on 28-30 September at the Pera Museum. Our
keynote speakers included Orhan Pamuk, the 2006
Nobel Prize winner for Literature and Professor İlhan Tekeli,
honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.
100 delegates came from 23 countries. The programme
is on : www.camoc2009istanbul.org and abstracts can
be read on Abstracts FV
A publication based on the presentations will appear in due
course. In the meantime, we have made a film about Istanbul,
cities and urban living - and about CAMOC and what it aims
to achieve. It was directed by two professionals, Jennifer
Portis and Owen Stephens. An edited version has been sent
to ICOM as our contribution to the Shanghai Expo in 2010.
Click on this link to see a short extract: CAMOC_Istanbul
In addition, our Turkish hosts made their own short film of the
conference - go to www.youtube.com and put CAMOC
in the search box.
Shortly after our own conference, another conference took
place in the city organised by Urban Age based at the
London School of Economcis. The focus was on Istanbul
itself. From their web site www.urban-age.net you can
download their publication Istanbul: City of Intersections.
It's worth reading. You can also see an interesting film on
Istanbul with contributions from participants at the
conference on www.monocle.com. Put Istanbul or Urban Age
in the search box.

The Bosphorus and the Golden Horn define Istanbul as a maritime city

The only city straddling two continents - in the distance, Asia

The other Istanbul - the towers of Levent, the new business district

The metro system is small, but attractive and efficient

Istanbul is nothing if not diverse. ©Owen Stephens SOC

The more familiar city - Beyoğlu, the traditional home of immigrants
The familiar city again - the Golden Horn

©Owen Stephens SOC

An older Istanbul which is fast disappearing

An alternative to the spreading shopping malls

An alternative to the supermarket chain. ©Owen Stephens SOC

One of the delights of Istanbul - all those independent booksellers

CAMOC dinner with the Blue Mosque in the background

Final evening

Suay Aksoy our conference organiser;Elena Koroshenko, our Russian/
English interpreter, Galina Vedernikova, our Chairperson and Director
General, Moscow City Museum Group; Irina Smagina, Deputy Director

Marlen Mouliou, Greece

Hugh Maguire, Ireland

Radka Banyalieva, Bulgaria

Mats Sjölin, Sweden

Gulchachak Nazipova, Tatarstan

Chet Orloff, USA

Jo-Anne Cooper, Australia and Hugh Maguire, Ireland

Annabelle Krause-Schilling, European Museum Foundation, Portugal


Some CAMOC delegates with the Hagia Sofia in the background


Suay Aksoy

Orhan Pamuk with the model of his Museum of Innocence
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Next conferences
2011 Havana, Cuba !
CAMOC will hold its 2011 conference in Havana. This is a
very exciting prospect for us and Bob Macdonald, our
vice-chairman, who has been the driving force in securing
our conference, has written a background article on Cuba's
museums and much else in the latest issue of Museum, the
journal of the American Association of Museums. It can be
downloaded at cuba
2012 To be decided
2013 Rio de Janeiro

Rio seen from Niterói on the other side of Guanabara Bay
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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The Cardiff Story/ Stori Caerdydd

A new museum dedicated to the past and present of Cardiff, the
capital of Wales, will open soon. The Cardiff Story will be
based around a core collection of 8,000 artefacts and will be
housed in the building above which is in the heart of the city. The
project was one factor which lead to the setting up of CAMOC.
There is a BBC video on the project at 8408975
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Moscow City Museum

The latest design proposal for the new home of Moscow City
Museum
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The Squares of Europe
The Square: a European Heritage is a collaborative European
Commission project by a number of universities which aims to assess
the importance of squares for city identity in cities from Madrid to
Odessa. The project has an attractive and informative web site:
www.placeeurope.net
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Museum of Copenhagen

The Museum of Copenhagen's response to the recent climate summit
in the city. See www.copenhagen It's one of the very best city
museum web sites.
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Some useful web sites. See also our Links page
The World Digital Library www.wdl.org
This UNESCO backed project has now been launched. One of its aims is
to promote international and intercultural understanding and narrow the
digital divide within and between countries. It has versions in Arabic,
Chinese, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and English.
City Mayors world-wide www.citymayors.com
City Mayors is a web based organisation which is about "celebrating cities
and promoting good government." It acts as an international think tank
for urban affairs. It is a mine of information about cities world wide, from
Lima to Tokyo.
World Association of Major Metropolises www.metropolis.org
"The main goal of the association is to better control the development
process of metropolitan areas in order to enhance the wellbeing of their
citizens. To do this, Metropolis represents regions and metropolitan
areas at the worldwide level and is recognized as a major player by large
international organizations such as the UN, WHO, the World Bank and
others."
The site has good and simple statistics on cities across the world.
Urban City www.urbancity.org
It contains "the world's most comprehensive calendar for events relating to
urban areas and urban issues." It is a very convenient way of keeping in
touch with what's happening in cities across the world.
Making cities livable www.livablecities.org
"The purpose of the Making Cities Livable movement is to enhance the
well-being of inhabitants of cities and towns, strengthen community,
improve social and physical health, and increase civic engagement by
reshaping the built environment of our cities, suburbs and towns."
This is a very informative web site, with an interesting list of recommended
reading and details of forthcoming and previous conferences.
The Cities Programme cities
"The Cities Programme at the London School of Economcis is an international
centre dedicated to the understanding of contemporary urban society. Its
central objective is to relate physical structure to the social structure of
cities."
It is linked to The Urban Age, a six-year sequence of international conferences
held in cities across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe between 2005 and
2010.
Shanghai Expo 2010 en.expo2010
The Expo will be held from 1 May to 31 October 2010, just before the ICOM
Triennial conference and our own. The theme is Better City, Better Life.
The Academy of Urbanism www.academyofurbanism.org
Based in the UK, the Academy was set up in 2006 to "expand urban discourse".
The Academy brings together people with a diverse range of backgrounds who
are concerned with developing villages, towns and cities.
Urban Design www.udg.org
Urban Design is a journal dedicated to urban matters and is very relevant to our
work as a committee. For example the current issue has an article on world
heritage sites.
Spur www.spur.org
San Fransico's centre for the improvement of urban living.The current exhibition,
on until 15 November is Agents of Change: Civic idealism and the making of San
Francisco. "Through compelling content spanning a variety of media--historical maps,
photographs, recorded interviews and an interactive multimedia installation-this
major exhibition examines the history of citymaking in San Francisco, and challenges
visitors to consider today’s urban issues in light of their own values".
The Arsenal,Paris www.pavillon-arsenal.com
"Created in 1988 the Pavillon de l’Arsenal is the centre for information,
documentation and exhibition for urban planning and architecture of Paris. It is a
unique place, where information concerning urban development and architectural
realisations in Paris is available to everyone.As urban issues are in the heart of
current debates, it is essential to present these questions in an attractive and
pedagogic way, to allow citizens to be in the middle of the process of architectural
and urban creations". The Arsenal is a model for all museums about cities.
Unmissable.
Project for Public Spaces www.pps.org
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping
people create and sustain public places that build communities.
The European Group on Museum Statistics egmus.minuskel
All the statistics on museums in Europe.
See also our Links page for other relevant sites.
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Briefly:
The Museum of Sao Paulo has a new and interesting web site:
www.museudacidade.sp.gov
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