The Fall 2025 issue of the CAMOC Review takes a critical look at the intersections of decolonisation, memory, and urban space, with a focus on city museums around the world. While conversations around decolonising museums have gained momentum in recent years, they have largely centered on national, ethnographic, and art institutions. This special edition asks: how are city museums—museums of place—engaging with the legacies of colonialism embedded in their collections, narratives, and urban contexts?

Contributors from Nigeria, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Canada, the UK, and beyond explore a wide range of strategies, from speculative storytelling and community curation to interventions in colonial archives and museum architecture. Through case studies, critical essays, and exhibition reviews, this issue foregrounds voices from both the Global North and South, highlighting how city museums can serve as powerful platforms for unsettling dominant histories and creating space for diverse, often marginalized, forms of knowledge and memory.

Featuring richly illustrated articles and reviews, this edition also offers reflections on major projects and publications shaping decolonial discourse today. As a teaser, we invite readers to explore a short visual essay on a recent installation by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto—whose work embodies the spirit of resistance, healing, and ecological awareness central to this issue.

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