May 6, 2024
The special edition of the CAMOC Review: City Museums: Perspectives from Asia-Pacific is now available! Projects, Publication
This special edition of the CAMOC Review is dedicated to the City Museums Global Mapping Project. This three-year initiative is a collaboration between ICOM, Taipei National University of Education, the ICOM International Committee for Collecting (COMCOL), and the ICOM Asia-Pacific Alliance (ASPAC). This edition includes a detailed report on the project workshop titled “City Museums: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific,” which took place in April 2023. For more information about the project, visit https://citymuseums-mapping.com.
Contents include:
- CITY MUSEUMS GLOBAL MAPPING PROJECT – An introduction and a look towards the future
- MAPPING CONTEMPORARY CITY MUSEUMS – Workshop keynote on changing approaches to defining city museums
- PROJECT SURVEY FINDINGS – Preliminary analysis on responses from city museums around the world
- PERSPECTIVES FROM THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
- SUSTAINABILITY AND WELL-BEING – Perspectives from Tokyo, Japan
- GENDER AND THE CITY MUSEUM – Perspectives from Melbourne, Australia
- MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITY – Perspectives from Daxi, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- MULTICULTURALISM – Perspectives from Singapore
- HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WORKSHOP AND SINGAPORE EXCURSION – Plus a photo gallery from Taipei
Download the publication HERE.