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.