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CAMOC Comité Internacional de colecciones y actividades de museos de ciudad
CAMOC
(CAMOC – International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities)
24 de setiembre 788 PB A
Barrio General Paz
5000 Córdoba
Córdoba
Argentina
Type
International / Intergovernmental
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CAMOC, the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities, was set up in Moscow in April 2005. It is one of a number of international organisations concerned with cities and urban living.
The Committee owes its origins to changing attitudes to museums about cities, museums which were in the main museums of city history and guardians of city treasures. The idea gradually took shape that these specialised museums could have another dimension and reflect the living city around them, reaching beyond the city’s history to the city today and its possible future. In 1993 a meeting of city museums was held at the Museum of London, perhaps the first of its kind. The International Association of City Museums was formed and met in Barcelona in 1995. Later, an informal group of people exchanged views and felt that an international committee under the imprint of ICOM could carry weight and a proposal to that effect was made at the ICOM triennial meeting in Seoul in 2004.