March 12, 2026
NOW AVAILABLE: Collecting With(in) the City: Publication of the CAMOC and COMCOL Conference 2024 Amsterdam Publication
The ICOM International Committees CAMOC (City Museums) and COMCOL (Collecting) collaborated to investigate the intersection of museums and urban spaces at the Collecting with(in) the City Conference in October 2024 in Amsterdam. Hosted by the Amsterdam Museum in collaboration with Imagine IC, the event served as a platform for museum professionals and scholars to discuss projects that interrogate institutional boundaries and redefine what it means to collect with and in the city today.
Following an enormous effort by the Scientific Committee of CAMOC and COMCOL, we are pleased to announce that the publication of Collecting With(in) the City: Publication of the CAMOC & COMCOL Conference 2024 Amsterdam is now available for free download.
This publication brings together the keynote talks and selected presentations from the conference, with more than 20 contributions from practitioners across the globe highlighting the conference’s five interrelated themes: Power and (in)equalities; Creative engagements; Fluid borders; Tangible and intangible; and Concepts of care. Together, these articles offer insights and reflections on the challenges and possibilities of collecting with(in) the city today.
Collecting With(in) the City
Publication of the CAMOC & COMCOL Conference
09–11 October, 2024, Amsterdam
289 pp. | ISBN 978-2-487970-26-7
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To facilitate targeted reading, the Table of Contents below provides direct access to the publication, with each section available for individual download.
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Proceedings:
Annemarie de Wildt, on behalf of the Scientific Committee of CAMOC and COMCOL
Imara Limon, Amsterdam Museum & Danielle Kuijten, Imagine IC
Zandra Yeaman, Power in This Place: Unfinished Conversations
Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Re-calibrating the city museum and our professionalism
Xavier de la Selle & Cécile Gotterand, From history museum to city museum: Integrating art collection into a project
Bert Dingerink, Project Amsterdams Stadsjournaal: Collecting activism and activist films
Jiayi Xu, Urban Culture on the Move: Chengdu Museum’s Digital Exhibition Practice
Kirsten Eghold, Collecting the City by Engaging with Its Buildings and Landscapes
Zeynep Kussan & Ellie Miles, Voices in the city: Case studies from London Transport Museum’s contemporary collecting programme
Kristi Paatsi, Beyond Objects: Creating community at the Kalamaja Museum, Tallinn City Museum, Kalamaja Museum
Elif Çiğdem Artan, Participatory curatorship for social impact: Amplifying marginalised voices in museums
Nicole van Dijk, New Neighborhood Heritage: The Wijkcollectie Foundation’s Vision for Community Engagement
Antonis Douroudis, From the Page to the Public Space: a creative mediation project, an invitation, a call to action
Zeynep Kussan, Harry Kane: I want to play football, the power of temporary display spaces
Virginia Rigney, Curatorship as invention: Shaping new understandings of place through the intersection of creative practices and histories
Ethel Ramos, Evolving Collections: The Experience of Inhabiting the City
Ayla Amon, De-, Post- and Anticolonizing Practices for Museum Collections
Joana Sousa Monteiro & Paulo Almeida Fernandes, In front of our eyes, yet under the carpet. Reinterpreting the heritage of African slave communities in Lisbon
09: City Identities and Conflict
Omar Idtnaine, Amazigh heritage and museum governance: An analysis of the transition
of the Municipal Museum
Els Veraverbeke, Curating War. A Dynamic Heritage Approach in the In Flanders
Laura Keogh, 14 Henrietta Street: Your Tenement Memories Oral History Programme
Miriam Doutriaux, Reactivating Oral Histories In Washington, D.C.
11:City Identities — Plural Narratives
Andrea Delaplace, Two city museums, two collections that tell the history of Montréal with a multivocal approach
Park Hyounmin, Building an Urban-Based Collection: The Case of Cheonggyecheon Museum, a Branch of the Seoul Museum of History
Manar Mazhar Ashour Hassan, Collecting with(in) Cairo: Towards Enhancing the Living Heritage of the Coffeehouses
Jie LIU, The integration of collections and Chinese garden: Cross-border curatorial practices that go beyond the collection
Patoo Cusripituck & Teerawan Minbualuang & Jitjayang Yamabhai, Transforming Karen Porridge: Heritage, Innovation, and the Praxis of Food as a Living Collection in Museum Interpretation
Jules Rijssen, Senses of Home
Roberto Luis Martins & Marysa Otte, It starts with a feeling. To touch and being touched by museum objects
Lana Bede, The Archive of City Imprints: Collecting Textures of Memory
Saeed Husein, Saryan Museum araising out of ashes of Hargeisa
Ana Shanshiashvili, Diving into the living heritage of cities: The Case of Old Tbilisi
14: Rapid Ideas Collection — Participants Reactions
Annemarie de Wildt & all the writers of conference cards
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