Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination…Simon Schama in Landscape and Memory

Our conference formed part of ICOM’s triennial meeting.  The theme of museums and cultural landscapes was a pretty wide-ranging one and it gave us the opportunity to explore a whole variety of topics from Amsterdam’s Red Light district to repairing Sophia’s cultural fabric.

We were joined by three of ICOM’s international committees: ICOFOM (museology), ICAMT (architecture and museum techniques), ICR (regional museums); and MINOM, an ICOM affiliated organisation concerned with social and cultural change.

ICOM’s web site gives an overall account of the triennial meeting.

More about CAMOC Milan 2016:

Detailed Programme

Presentations: 

Day One: July 4. Museums and Urban Cultural Landscapes
Joint CAMOC/ICOFOM/MINOM session

• Jette Sandahl  Denmark Home-Town & other ambiguous constructs
• Marlen Mouliou Greece Museums of cities and urban cultural landscapes
• Joana Monteiro Portugal Text The light of Lisbon – a cultural landscape and Photos
• Rainey Tisdale, Linda Norris USA The creative cultural landscape
• Marlen Mouliou Greece  Final debate: The social role of museums
• Mário Moutinho Portugal MINOM, ICOFOM Final debate: From new museology to sociomuseology 1984-2016

Day Two: 5 July. Museums between their collections and their environments
Joint CAMOC/ICAMT session

• Massimo Negri Italy The expanded museum – a possible evolution of the city museum concept  Appendix One Appendix Two Appendix Three Appendix Four
• Catherine Cole Canada Mapping cultures and evolving land use in Mill Woods  Script
• Annemarie de Wildt Netherlands The cultural landscape of the Amsterdam Red Light district
• Rebecca Bailey Scotland A tale of two cities
• Nicole van Dijk Netherlands Finding and Collecting the urban landscape
• Rachel Roy Canada Ethnographic research of the Museum of Vancouver
• Yanko Apostolov USA Repairing Sofia’s Cultural Fabric
• Francesca Morandini, Serena Solano Italy Brescia-Brixia. Travel across the ancient landscapes Part One  Part Two
• Mari Endo, Kiyofumi Motoyama, Mamoru Endo, Takami Yasuda Japan A system for connecting past and present, and the real and virtual of historical sites using ICT
• Marina Byrro Ribeiro, Louise Land Bittencourt Lomardo, Brazil Environmental sustainability in museum architecture in previously existing buildings: tools for decision making

Day Three: 6 July City museums, urban landscapes and urban communities
Ignite session 

• Jerneja Batič Slovenia The museum taking us into the city Photos
• Rebecca Bailey Scotland Scotland’s urban past
• Carolina Vasconcellos Vilas Boas Brazil Immigration and representation in São Paulo
• Louisa Nnenna Onouha Nigeria Nigeria’s Brazilian Quarters.  The mandate of preserving public monuments and the issue of sustainable development in Nigeria
• Lieve Willekens Belgium Around the corner…How MAS uses its collections to connect to its diverse cultural landscapes
• Susanne Anna Germany Baraka – a quarter for refugees.  A best practice example of how to design a cultural landscape
• Gegê Leme Joseph Brazil Samba – an invisible cultural landscape between territory, heritage and community at Museo do Samba
• Paola Boccalatte Italy The cultural landscape of street art in Italy
• Chet Orloff USA The city museum and city planning; the Museum of the City’s experience  Text
• Michela Bassanelli, Francesca Lanz Italy Reach-out Museum. New practices inside and outside the museum spaces
• Britt Welter-Nolan, Karen Carter Canada Museum of Toronto; a distributed co-created model for a 21st century city museum

Museums and landscape communities
Joint CAMOC/ICR session 

• Bonginkosi Zuma and Steven Kotse South Africa Navigating freedom: social cohesion policies and the democratic cultural landscape of Durban’s Liberation Heritage Route
• Chen Jianming China Interpretation, inheritance and development of regional culture landscapes:  a case study of the new Hunan provincial museum
• Tiina Merisalo Finland Helsinki The museum as an expert in the cultural environment and the challenges of participation in an open society
• Irena Zmuc Slovenia  From the museum to the landscape
• Lena Lundberg, Sebastian Ulvsgärd Sweden Cemeteries in the city of Stockholm: a culture-historical characterisation.  The Slaughterhouse district: Stockholm City Museum and the transformation of an urban cultural landscape
• Carrie-Ann Lunde Canada Regional identity as shaped by physical and cultural landscapes
• Afşin Altayli Turkey Planning culture and cultural planning: museums and cultural landscapes
• Makiko Ruike Austria Cityscape as a marketing tool or as life space of residents?
• Stefanos Keramidas Greece Where the orange trees grow – a challenging cultural landscape in Argolid, Greece
• Chunni Chiu (Jenny) Japan Preserve cultural heritage and landscape through a city museum