Kyoto 2019

► We have produced this guide to city museums across Japan.

You will see that two of our sessions were with ASPAC, ICOM's regional alliance of Asian Pacific countries, and with DEMIST, ICOM's international committee for historic house museums.  

The keynote speakers at the ICOM conference, in which of course CAMOC took part included Kengo Kuma, architect of the Scottish arm of London's Victoria and Albert Museum; the Chinese artist  Cai Guo-Qiang whose many prizes include the Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale; and the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado who is currently working on a project  about the Amazonian rain forest and its indigenous people.

Tours 

Our colleague Jenny Chiu has organised a tour of the Museum of Kyoto and the area around it.

Then there's Tokyo. Jenny organised a post conference tour of Tokyo, Japan's capital, the world's largest city and home to this year's world rugby cup.  We have the details here in both ► Japanese and English◀︎

See also our Facebook entry on the left hand column on this page, where we have more information about the conference.  

Kyoto is rather more than a tourist attraction.  Monocle magazine, which is much involved in reporting on cities world-wide, rates Kyoto among the best places in which to live (edition 125 July/August 2019). That's based on 60 metrics, including items such as the cost of living, public transport, safety, green spaces,  the average working week, the population age range, and of course culture, on which it scores heavily.  Tourism has done much to raise the economy, but as in so many cities, from Venice to Barcelona,  it has been something of a curse.  That said, this is a good guide to Kyoto

The Mayor is Daisaku Kadokawa.  He has led some successful campaigns such as reducing energy use.  Under his leadership Kyoto is making efforts to protect its wooden townhouses with rules which demand that developers give city hall first chance to prevent historic buildings being pulled down, an initiative which could be copied in so many other cities.  

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次回のCAMOCの年次大会は、日本では初めて京都で、3年に１度開催されるICOM大会とともに開催します。ICOM京都大会のテーマは、「文化をつなぐ博物館－伝統を未来へ－」です。3年に1度のICOM大会の情報、スケジュールの概要と参加登録の方法はこちらをご覧ください。this link.  ちろんCAMOCでは、ICOM京都大会のテーマを独自な視点で解釈し、議論を行います。CAMOC年次大会の情報と発表募集については、こちらをご覧ください。This link.   発表応募フォームはこちらをご覧ください。This link is also in Japanese  英語の発表のみならず、日本語で発表することも可能です！日本から多くの皆様のご参加と応募をお待ちしております！