Contents
Contents

Greetings ........................................................................................................... 3

Participant Survey ................................................................................ 87

Overview .......................................................................................................... 7

Financial Report ..................................................................................... 93

Results by Figures ..................................................................... 8
Timetable ..................................................................................... 10

Annexes ........................................................................................................... 97

Theme of the Conference ................................................. 12

Sponsors ...................................................................................... 98
Exhibitors .................................................................................. 101

Conference ................................................................................................... 13

Off-site Meetings ................................................................. 104

Acronyms of the ICOM Network ............................... 14

Excursions & Tours ............................................................. 107

Statutory Meetings ................................................................ 15

Conference Materials ...................................................... 110

Ceremonies ................................................................................ 20
Keynote Speakers ................................................................. 22
Plenary Sessions .................................................................... 28
Panels ............................................................................................. 36
Workshops ................................................................................. 39
Networking Sessions .......................................................... 42
Memorial Lecture ................................................................... 43
International Committee Sessions .............................. 44
New International Committees .................................... 59
Social Programmes .............................................................. 60
Museum Fair and Expo Forum ..................................... 64
Excursions ................................................................................... 66
Post-Conference Tours ........................................................ 67
Manga: A Day at ICOM Kyoto 2019 ................... 68

Organisation .............................................................................................. 69
Road to ICOM Kyoto 2019 ........................................... 70
Organisers ................................................................................. 74
Host City and Venues ......................................................... 76
Volunteers .................................................................................... 77
Grants ............................................................................................ 77
Public Relations & Communication ........................... 78
Registration Information .................................................... 82
Accessibility and Services ............................................... 841

Greetings

Greetings

The Way Forward

Since its birth in 1946, ICOM has strived to bring museum
professionals together with one aim: the advancement of
our field for the betterment of our societies. Our triennial
General Conferences have always played a pivotal rolein the realisation of this objective. They are not only thehigh point of the life of our organisation — but also an
important date on the global calendar for museum andheritage professionals.
As a new decade approaches, the challenges to achieve
our goals are greater — the climate emergency being
the biggest threat in history to life on Earth. How can
we preserve the world’s heritage for future generations, if
there is no future at all? For this reason, the 25th ICOMGeneral Conference aimed at so much more than beinga big event on the agenda of the heritage field. ICOM
Kyoto 2019 was both a retrospective and a turning
point — the cristallisation of ICOM’s commitment toachieve the landmark the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
A record-breaking audience of 4,590 participants from120 countries and territories gathered in Kyoto to tackle awide variety of issues under the umbrella of sustainable
development: from decolonisation and restitution to
cultural diversity, from disaster risk management tolocal development. Beyond the walls of the conference
centre, other thousands of citizens from 96 countries
followed the live streamings on social media and joined
the conversation.
After a week of thought-provoking debates, plenaries,
workshops and 231 ICOM Committees’ sessions, there
are many lessons for us to learn and many changes for
us to make on every level. This ranges from reducing theenvironmental impact of ICOM’s actions to continuing
to foster a clear and open conversation on the museum
definition.
ICOM is proudly leading the conversation on whata museum is, both in regards to its definition andbeyond it: what they mean for sustainable development;
what their role is in decolonising our institutions and4minds; what impact they can have on the wellbeing of
our societies. This would not be possible without theinvaluable contribution and tireless work of our ICOM
Committees and Members, to whom I wish to express
my warmest gratitude.
The walls of museums are permeable to protests inthe streets, debates in parliaments and trending topics
in social media. Everything in this world, one way or
another, finds its way in. What we do with it, the way
we approach this, determines not only our role in thesocieties we serve, but also the trust they place on us.
For us, the unprecedented impact of ICOM Kyoto
2019 is proof that people care about the issues we tackledthat week. They know that these topics are relevant
and, most importantly, they believe that museums cando something about them. It is this belief what makes
ICOM the forum it aims to be: a platform that brings
museum professionals from all over the world together
to innovate, exchange best practices and advanceknowledge; to advocate for social justice and theprotection of our planet; to bridge cultures and nations,and, ultimately, to build a peaceful world.

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Suay AKSOY
President of ICOMGreetings

A Message to Attendeesof the ICOM Kyoto
General Conference
ICOM Kyoto 2019, the 25th General Conference of theInternational Council of Museums, took place over the
week of 1–7 September and was widely acknowledged
to be a great success. It was the largest ICOM General
Conference ever, with 4,590 participants from 120
countries and territories. On behalf of the organisers, I
would like to express my sincere appreciation to all whocame to Kyoto to participate in this historic gathering.
I am also profoundly grateful to the many people andorganisations who contributed to make this General
Conference happen, including the municipal andprefectural governments and residents of Kyoto.
ICOM Kyoto 2019’s public events began on 2
September with an opening ceremony attended by their
Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Akishino. The
initial keynote speech, by the architect Kengo Kuma,
dealt with environmental compatibility in museum
architecture. It was followed by a plenary session within-depth discussion about sustainability and museums.
On 3 September, a keynote speech by photographer
and activist Sebastião Salgado evinced the beauty of the
Amazon and the need for it to be safeguarded by theinternational community. A subsequent plenary session
fostered spirited discourse about ICOM’s proposed new
museum definition. On 4 September, artist Cai GuoQiang’s keynote dealt with the significance of museumsin the contemporary art world. Two plenary sessions thatday discussed the role of museums in times of crisis andthe ways in which Asian art is presented in museums
around the globe. Other panels explored the potential
for displaying manga in museums as well as museums’
impact on regional development. On 5 September,
ICOM’s International Committees conducted individual
off-site meetings in various places around the Kansai
region. 6 September was a day for excursions todestinations near and far, organised in conjunction withthe governments of Kyoto City and Kyoto Prefecture. On
the last day, Kyoto’s governor and mayor handed over the
ICOM flag to representatives of Prague, Czech Republic,

the host city for the next General Conference, providing
a fitting grand finale to a busy week.
ICOM Kyoto 2019 came at a major turning point in
ICOM’s history, one in which museums are reexamining
their roles and missions amidst a changing world,which has led to a dedicated effort to revise ICOM’s
museum definition. Though in the end the vote on
the revised museum definition was postponed, this
General Conference allowed for a remarkable amount ofvigorous debate, including a plenary session, roundtablediscussions, and an over four-and-a-half-hour
Extraordinary General Assembly. The two Resolutions
proposed by ICOM Japan — “Commitment to theConcept ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs’” and “Commitment
to the Integration of Asia into the ICOM Community”— together with other Resolutions adopted in Kyoto
should significantly influence the activities of museums
around the world in the future.
As organisers, it is incumbent upon us to convey theenthusiasm generated in Kyoto with the rest of Japanand with countries around the world, especially the 2022
host city of Prague. I hope that all of us who experienced
the impassioned discourse of the ICOM Kyoto 2019 willcontinue to devote their attention and passion to theseshared concerns of the ICOM family in the future.

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Dr Johei SASAKI
President, ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee

5Over view

Results by Figures

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Results by Figures

9Timetable
Explanatory notes
Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Panel

CeremonyWorkshop

Keynote Speech

Networking Session

Plenary Session

Social Programme

9 : 00Sun.

Committees’ Conference

Statutory Meeting

1 Sep.

10 : 00

11: 0013 : 00

Keynote Speech:
Kengo Kuma

14 : 00
85th ICOM
Advisory Council Meeting

85th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

Opening Ceremony of
the 25th ICOM General
ConferenceMon.

12 : 00

Plenary Session:
Curating Sustainable
Futures Through Museums
Workshop:
Publishing and Writing

2

ICOM Newcomers Session

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Keynote Speech:
Sebastião Salgado

Tue.

3

Plenary Session:
The Museum Definition–The backbone of ICOMICOM ’ s Network
ICOM Mentoring Conferences andSession
Other Sessions

Workshop:
Digital and Smart

ICOM
Workshop:
ICOM Membership Memorial Lecture:
Stephen E. Weil
Database

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Plenary Session:
Museums in Times ofDisaster

Wed.

Plenary Session:
Keynote Speech: Asian Art Museums &CAI Guo-Qiang Collections in the World

4ICOM ’ s Network
ICOM Mentoring Conferences andSession
Other Sessions
Workshop:
ICOM Membership
Database

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

10

Thu.

5

Off-site Meetings of ICOM Committees

Fri.

6

Excursions

Sat.

7

Extraordinary
General Assembly

34th ICOM General AssemblyTimetable

14 : 00

15 : 00

16 : 00

17: 0018 : 00

Separate Meeting of ICOMNational Committees

19 : 00

20 : 00

21: 00ICOM Internal Meetings

Separate Meeting of ICOM International Committees

Opening Party@ ICC Kyoto

ICOM ’ s Network Conferences and Other Sessions
Workshop:Curating Sustainable Futures Through Museums
Panel:
Decolonisation and Restitution (Session 1)

Panel:
Decolonisation andRestitution (Session 2)

Social Event@ Nijo-jo Castle
Workshop:
The Backbone ofMuseums? (Session 1)

Workshop:
The Backbone ofMuseums? (Session 2)

Noh Performance@ Kongoh Nohgakudo
TheatreOpen Forum for Resolutions

Social Event @ Kitayama Area
Panel:
Possibilities and Impossibilities
of Exhibiting Manga/Comic

Panel:
Museums andLocal Development

ICOM ×PechaKucha Night Kyoto
Noh Performance@ Kyoto Kanze Noh TheaterSocial Event@ Okazaki Area

Closing Ceremony@ Kyoto National Museum
86th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

Closing Party @ Kyoto National Museum

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Museums as Cultural Hubs:
The Future of Tradition
The theme of ICOM Kyoto 2019 General Conference is“Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition.” Inrecent years, museums around the world have begun tothink more seriously about how better to contribute tosociety. Amidst the many global political, economic, andsocial changes taking place around the world, and withthe underlying issues of climate change, poverty, conflict,natural disasters, human rights, and the environment,
it is becoming more and more urgent for museums
to consider how they might contribute to building apeaceful and sustainable future.
Every museum is unique, with its own distinctive
focus — be it history, art, natural history, science,
literature, or another subject. Likewise, each museum
has its own collection, history, and mode and scaleof presentation. But there is a limit to what museums
can do as entirely independent entities. It is when
museums connect with one another through regional,
national, and international networks that they gain thepotential to become more relevant and to better meetthe social expectations of the modern world. Such efforts
accordingly increase their effectiveness as “cultural
hubs” and their ability to move smoothly between the
traditions of the past and the innovations of the future.
The ICOM Kyoto 2019 General Conference wasintended as a forum to debate how museums might
best fulfil society’s new expectations. The theme“Museums as Cultural Hubs” suggests, in part, thistriennial’s intended role as a gathering place to discussvarious topics, including connection, cooperation, andinformation sharing on matters of international interest.

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Such collaborations might take place among museums
themselves or between museums and other cultural,
educational, and research institutions, communities,
experts, or stakeholders. ICOM is also reconsidering
the definition of “museum,” a process that should bringto the fore a variety of national and regional museumrelated issues and their potential solutions.
At the same time, the preservation and exhibition of
tangible and intangible cultural heritage have long beenat the heart of the museum mission. When thinking about
museums of the future, it is essential that we continue tovalue the resources making up our shared cultural legacy
as human beings, and to hand them down safely to future
generations. But we also have the obligation to sharesuch cultural heritage with today’s audiences throughexhibitions and other forms of outreach. For this reason,
too, museums function as “cultural hubs.” For there to bea “future of tradition,” cultural heritage must be a living,breathing entity, a bridge between past and future. In thissense, Kyoto, the thousand-year ancient capital of Japan,
which has long been known for its cherished traditions
as well as its pioneering innovations was the ideal place
for this ICOM General Conference.
To help us consider the potential of museums to bridge
cultures, ICOM Kyoto conference featured keynote
speeches from three world-renowned intellectuals,
as well as four plenary sessions and a variety of panel
discussions and other events. We believe that all
ICOM Kyoto 2019 participants actively engaged in thediscussions and came away with a shared vision formuseums in the new era.

ConferenceAcronyms of the ICOM Network
International Committees
AVICOM
CAMOC

Affiliated Organisations

	Audiovisual, New Technologies and Social
Media

AEOM

	Association of European Open-Air Museums	Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities

AFRICOM

	International Council of African Museums

AIMA	International Association of Agricultural
Museums

AMMM

	Association of Mediterranean Maritime
MuseumsCAM	Commonwealth Association of Museums

CIMAM

	International Committee for Museums andCollections of Modern Art

EXARC

	International Organisation of ArchaeologicalOpen-Air Museums and Experimental
Archaeology

FIHRM

	Federation of International Human Rights
Museums

Education and Cultural Action

CECA

Documentation

CIDOC
CIMCIM	Museums and Collections of Instruments andMusic

CIMUSET	Museums and Collections of Science andTechnology

CIPEG

Egyptology

COMCOL

Collecting

COSTUME

Museums and Collections of Costume

DEMHIST

Historic House Museums

DRMC

Disaster Resilient Museums Committee

GLASS

Museums and Collections of Glass

ICAMT

Architecture and Museum Techniques

ICEthics

International Committee on Ethical Dilemmas

ICDAD

	Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts
and Design

ICEE

Exhibition and Exchange

ICFA

Museums and Collections of Fine ArtsHANDS ON! 	International Association of Children inMuseums

IACCCA	International Association of Corporate
Collections of Contemporary Art

IACM

	International Association of Customs/Tax
Museums

IAMFA	International Association of Museum Facility
Administrators

IAMH

	International Association of Museums of History

ICMAH

	Museums and Collections of Archaeology andHistory

IATM

	International Association of Transport andCommunications Museums

ICME	Museums and Collections of Ethnography

ICAM

ICMEMO	Memorial Museums in Remembrance of theVictims of Public Crimes

	International Confederation of Architectural
Museums

Literary and Composers’ Museums

ICLCM

ICMM

	International Congress of Maritime Museums

ICMS

Museum Security

ICSC

	International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

ICOFOM

Museology

MAC	Museums Association of the Caribbean

ICOM-CC

Conservation

MINOM	International movement for a new Museology

ICOMAM	Museums and Collections of Arms and Military
History

PIMA

Pacific Islands Museum Association

SIBMAS	International Association of Libraries andMuseums of the Performing ArtsICOMON

Money and Banking Museums

ICR

Regional Museums

ICTOP

Training of Personnel

Standing Committees

INTERCOM

Museum Management

MDPP

MPR

Marketing and Public Relations

	Committee for Museum Definition, Prospects
and Potentials

DRMC

Disaster Risk Management Committee

ETHCOM

Ethics Committee

FIREC

Finance and Resources Committee

LEAC

Legal Affairs Committee

NEC

Nominations and Elections Committee

SAREC

Strategic Allocation Review Committee

SPC

Strategic Plan Committee

NATHIST

	Museums and Collections of Natural History

UMAC

University Museums and Collections

Regional Alliances
ICOM ARAB

Arab region

ICOM ASPAC

Asia-Pacific region

ICOM EUROPE

European region

ICOM LAC

Latin America & Caribbean region

ICOM SEE

South-East European region

Working Groups

CIMAO

West African region

MWG
WGS
ICWG

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Membership Working Group
Working Group on Sustainability	Working Group on the Future of International
Committees

Statutory Meetings
85th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

Extraordinary General Assembly
7 Sep. 9:30 –10:30

The 85 th Session of the ICOM Advisory Council
gathered the Chairpersons of the National andInternational Committees, Regional Alliances, andAffiliated Organisations. The session was opened by
ICOM President, the Chair of ICOM Advisory Council,
the President of the Organising Committee of ICOM
Kyoto 2019 and the Chair of ICOM Japan. The ICOMSecretariat presented the activities implemented in 2018,
especially regarding Membership, Heritage Protection
and Capacity Building, Publications, Communications,
Museums and Society, Legal Affairs and the challenges of
the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Next, the activities of the Strategic Allocation Review
Committee (SAREC), the Ethics Committee (ETHCOM),
the Committee for Museum Definition, Prospects andPotentials (MDPP), the Strategic Plan Committee (SPC)
and the Disaster Risk Management Committee (DRMC)
were presented. Recommendations from the Working
Group on the Future of International Committees(ICWG) and the Working Group on Sustainability (WGS)
were also heard.
Presentations on specific topics followed, such as: theContribution of Modern and Contemporary Art Museums
in a Global 21st Century (CIMAM), Art Focus on Humanand Women’s Rights (ICOM Nigeria), Revamping ICOM in
Eastern Africa (ICOM Kenya) and UK Museums and Brexit(ICOM UK). The ICOM-ITC Secretariat showed a video
presentation of its training activities.
ICOM Director General reported on the preparations
for the ICOM General Conference in Prague in 2022.
Finally, the Chair of the ICOM Resolutions Committee
presented the Resolutions Procedure and the Committee’swork.

In 2016 ICOM launched a participatory process to reflect
on the museum definition. Over the course of three years,
conferences, roundtables and worldwide exchanges were
held. In its 139 th Meeting, the ICOM Executive Board
selected a new definition to be debated during the EGA
on the last day of the 25 th General Conference.
Once the quorum was reached, the President opened
the EGA and invited Jette Sandahl, Chair of the Museum
Definition, Prospects and Potentials Committee (MDPP),
to present the work of the Committee and introduce thenew proposed Museum Definition.
Following this, members were given the floor for an
open discussion. Many opinions and proposals wereexpressed by National and International Committees,
Regional Alliances and Affiliated Organisations. The
discussion highlighted the importance of open debate
concerning the global museum community’s challengesof the 21 st century and reaffirmed the importance of
ICOM’s role.
After these discussions, the EGA proceeded to amend
the decision by proposing to retain all suggestions madeduring the Assembly and to postpone the decision to alater date. 562 members voted, with 70.4% in favour of
postponing the vote.
Pursuant to this decision, the ICOM President
welcomed the democratic process and thanked the EGA
for the healthy discussions that highlighted the need topursue further dialogue, particularly with the Nationaland International Committees.

Statutory Meetings

1 Sep. 9:30 –12:00 / 13:30 –15:00

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Statutory Meetings
34th ICOM General Assembly

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86th ICOM Advisory Council Meeting

7 Sep. 11:00 –13:30

7 Sep. 14:45 –16:00

ICOM President welcomed members to the 34 th ICOMGA and presented the President’s Report for 2018.
ICOM Treasurer, Emma Nardi, presented the Financial
Statements 2018 which were approved by the GA.
The Chair of ICOM Resolutions Committee, Marlen
Mouliou, presented five draft resolutions that were theresult of a participatory process, all of which were voted
on and adopted by the GA.
Hughes de Varine and Per Rekdal were both elected as
ICOM honorary members by a large majority.
The Chair of the Nominations and Elections
Committee, Stéphanie Wintzerith, announced the resultsof the election of the Executive Board for 2019–2022.
Laishun An and Alberto Garlandini were re-elected
as Vice-Presidents; Emma Nardi was re-elected as
Treasurer; Hilda Abreu de Utermohlen, Vinod Daniel,
Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandão, Carina Jaatinen,
Léontine Meijer-Van Mensch, Maria de Lourdes Monges
Santos, Terry Simioti Nyambe, Carol Ann Scott werere-elected as Executive Board members for a second
term. Regine Schulz will continue to serve Ex-officio,
as Chair of the Advisory Council. Three new members
were elected to the Executive Board: Nicholas Crofts,
Eric Dorfman and Tayeebeh Golnaz Golsabahi. Suay
Aksoy was re-elected as President of ICOM for a second
term and delivered her address: she expressed hersincere gratitude and encouraged all ICOM members tocontinue to uphold the cause of museums and heritagearound the world.

The outgoing Vice-Chair, Gustavo Ortiz opened the86 th Advisory Council meeting and invited Regine
Schulz, the re-elected Chair of the Advisory Council
for 2019–2022 to deliver the opening address. As theExtraordinary and Ordinary General Assemblies had
run over time, the meeting began later than scheduled
and so the members voted to modify the agenda andpostpone Item 2 Recommendations from the Separate
Meetings of the National and International Committees
until the next meeting in Paris in June 2020.
There was a vote to elect the new Vice-Chair of
the Advisory Council for 2019–2022. There were twocandidates for the position: Alec Coles (Australia) andChristian Nana Tchuisseu (Cameroon) and the latter was
elected Vice-Chair for the term 2019–2022.
Regine Schulz formally thanked Gustavo Ortiz for his
work as Vice-Chair and congratulated Christian Nana
Tchuisseu on his election. ICOM Director General
thanked the President, the Executive Board members,
the ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee, ICOMJapan and the ICOM Secretariat for their work on the
General Conference.

Separate Meetings: National Committees/International Committees
1 Sep. 15:30 –17:30(Chair of ICOM-CC, Chair of ICWG, Member of ICOM Denmark)with the opportunity to discuss with their NC and IC
colleagues the current relevant issues and to draft theirrespective recommendations to the Advisory Council.
Presentations and discussions during both meetings
addressed inter alia the recommendations and reportof the Working Group on the future of the International

Statutory Meetings

Following the 85th Advisory Council Meeting theseparate meetings of ICOM National Committees(NCs) and ICOM International Committees (ICs)respectively provided the spokespersons of the NCs,
Kidong Bae, (Chair of ICOM ASPAC; former Chair of ICOM
Republic of Korea) and the ICs, Kristiane Strætkvern

Committees (ICWG), the legal positions of ICs/NCs ingeneral, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
the current situation and plans regarding archiving the
documents of the Committees, as well as an update on theorganisation of the 26th ICOM General Conference tobe held in 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic. Furthermore,
ICOM Secretariat provided the NCs with an updateon the ICOM Membership dues for 2020. One of themain topics of ICOM Kyoto 2019 was the vote on a New
Museum Definition at the upcoming Extraordinary
General Assembly, which also was debated during bothsessions.

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Statutory Meetings
Open Forum for Resolutions
3 Sep. 14:30 –16:00
During this session ICOM members assembled to draft
resolutions pertaining to the challenges that the global
museum community is facing today. The resolutions
drafted during the Open Forum were then submitted
for a vote by the General Assembly. The Chair of the
Resolutions Committee, Marlen Mouliou, presented six
recommendations to the Open Forum for Resolutions:
1) Recommendation by the National Committees of
Norway and United Kingdom “On Sustainability andthe Implementation of Agenda 2030, Transforming
our World”.
2) Recommendation by ICOM Japan on “Commitment to the Integration of Asia into the ICOM
Community”.
3) Recommendation by ICOM Japan on “Commitment
to the Concept ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs’”.
4) Recommendation by ICOM Italy on “Deposits ofmuseums for the Cultural Heritage”.
5) Recommendation by ICOM-CC, ICAMT,COMCOL and ICMS on “Measures to reduce risks
for collections in storage throughout the world”.
6) Recommendation by ICOM Europe and
ICOM LAC on “Museums, Communities andSustainability”.
She then opened the floor to comments. The
discussion focused on recommendations 4 and 5. A
representative from ICOM Italy stated that the first draft

18of recommendation 4 was developed at the last ICOMGeneral Conference in Milan 2016. The first draft was
rejected but continued to be developed at the Matera
and Naples conferences. There was extensive discussion
on the usage of the terms ‘deposit’, ‘collection’ ‘reserve
collection’ and ‘storage’.
A representative from ICOM-CC reported thatrecommendation 5 was also first developed at the General
Conference in Milan 2016. She stated that museums are
the caretakers of history and stressed that ICOM-CC
considers this topic as very important.
It was suggested that recommendation 4 andrecommendation 5 should be combined. ICOM Italy
and ICOM-CC had already mutually endorsed theirrespective recommendations and agreed that they were
happy to work together to form one recommendation.
Marlen Mouliou reminded ICOM Italy and ICOMCC that the timeframe to work on combining theserecommendations was very tight, only two days. ICOM
Italy and ICOM-CC agreed that they would try tomeet this deadline. It was decided that the second
paragraph from recommendation 4 should be added
to recommendation 5 which entrusts the analysis of thesituation of the deposits in museums around the world
to a dedicated Standing Committee.
In relation to recommendation 6, it was acknowledgedthat the text would need to be updated if the newMuseum Definition was adopted at the Extraordinary
General Assembly.

Resolutions

The first Draft Resolution, “On Sustainability and the
Implementation of Agenda 2030, Transforming ourWorld”, notes humanity’s current unsustainable demandson the planet and acknowledges the unprecedented
environmental and societal crises and impacts. It
suggests that museums, as trusted sources of knowledge,
are invaluable resources for engaging communities andare ideally positioned to empower the global society
to collectively imagine, design and create a sustainable
future for all. There were no comments from themembers and it was adopted by over 76 per cent.
The second Draft Resolution, “Commitment to theIntegration of Asia into the ICOM Community”,
highlights that Asia is a vast continent marked bydiversity; with many of its countries and regions being
multilingual, multireligious, and having multi-ethnic
populations. It recommends that in order to better
integrate Asian countries with the international museum
community, ICOM should commit to strengthening
mutual understanding among Asian museums while atthe same time respecting the autonomy, distinctivenessand diversity of the region.
There were no comments from the members and it
was adopted with over 71 percent voting in favor.
The third Draft Resolution, “Commitment to theConcept ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs’”, recommends thatICOM should assert its commitment to a flexible andan integrative discourse through an adaptation of theconceptual framework ‘Museums as Cultural Hubs’. The
concept of ‘Cultural Hubs’ describes museums as central
axes for the exchange of information. Transcendingtime, be it centuries, political eras, or generations it
suggests that museums can play a generative role inforging transverse connections across divergent fields. It
was adopted by over 71 per cent vote.

Statutory Meetings

The ICOM resolutions were adopted by the General Assembly and they are meant as a set of recommendations for
professionals and institutions concerning the challenges that the global museum community is facing today.
Five Draft Resolutions were presented at the 34 th ICOM General Assembly on 7 th September 2019. The Chair of theICOM Resolutions Committee, Marlen Mouliou, gave a brief overview of the committee’s role and work methodology.
Then, one by one, she submitted them to a vote by ICOM General Assembly by reading the entire text of each Draft
Resolution.
The fourth Draft Resolution, “Measures to safeguardand enhance collections in storage throughout theworld”, calls on museum and heritage professionals
to take all measures to reduce risks for its collections
in storage throughout the world. It recommends thatheritage professionals should allocate funds and makeuse of all available tools and methodologies at theirdisposal to ensure the continuance of museums’ mission
in research, education and the enjoyment by present andfuture generations.
Members made several comments in relation to thisDraft Resolution, including that not enough time had
been allowed for the National Committees to review
the final texts. The Chair of the ICOM Resolutions
Committee replied that the time for making changes
to the content of the resolution had passed, and that
the General Assembly must proceed to a vote. This was
confirmed by the President. The resolution was adopted
by over 60 per cent.
The fifth Draft Resolution, “Museums, Communities
and Sustainability”; noted the Declaration of Santiago
de Chile (UNESCO, 1973); reconfirmed ICOM’s
Resolution relating to communities, sustainability,
and cultural landscapes; and references the ICOMResolution concerning the ‘extended museum’ which
was adopted in Milan in 2016. The ‘extended museum’
resolution underlines that museums are more than
traditional buildings, collections, and establishedcuratorial practices. They have value for social, cultural,environmental and economic development so therefore
directly relate to the aims of the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals for 2030.
It was adopted by over 69 per cent.

*For the full text, see the page “Resolutions adopted by the 34th General Assembly of ICOM” on the ICOM’s website.

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Ceremonies
Opening Ceremony
2 Sep. 9:30 –10:55
The opening ceremony was held in the Main Hall of the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) andattended by over 3000 people who were accommodated in multiple venues during a live broadcasting of the ceremony.
The ceremony was opened by Shōmyō and Hora (Conch Trumpet) performance by priests of Daigo-ji Temple, followedby opening speeches from ICOM President Suay Aksoy, ICOM Japan Chair Tamotsu Aoki and organisers as well as
speeches by guest speakers including the Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, the Japanese Ministerof Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Masahiko Shibayama, Kyoto Prefecture Governor Takatoshi
Nishiwaki and Kyoto City Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa. The ceremony concluded with the Organising Committee Johei
Sasaki’s declaration of event purposes and a performance of Noh.

Programme• Shōmyō and Hora (Conch Trumpet) Performance by Priests of Daigo-ji Temple• Opening Remarks
Suay AKSOY

President of ICOM• Greetings from the Organisers
Tamotsu AOKIJuichi YAMAGIWA

Chair of ICOM Japan
President of the Science Council of Japan• Address by His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Akishino• Congratulatory Messages
Masahiko SHIBAYAMA
Akira SATO
Takatoshi NISHIWAKI
Daisaku KADOKAWA

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
State Minister of the Cabinet Office
Governor of Kyoto Prefecture
Mayor of Kyoto City

• Message from the Prime Minister of Japan (Introducing the message on his behalf)
Masami ZENIYA

President of the Japanese Association of Museums• The Aims of ICOM Kyoto 2019
Johei SASAKI

President of the ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee• Noh Performance, Shakkyō (The Stone Bridge)20

Emcee: Hiroko KUNIYAClosing Ceremony
7 Sep. 19:15 –20:00

Ceremonies

The Closing Ceremony was held at Meiji Kotokan Hall of the Kyoto National Museum. The ceremony was opened withthe presentation of letters of appreciation to Mr Koji Kinutani who designed the official event poster and Tatsumura
Textile Co., Ltd. who created the ICOM flag, followed by speeches by ICOM President Suay Aksoy, Organising Committee
Johei Sasaki and Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Keiko Nagaoka. The ceremony
concluded with the handover of the ICOM flag from Kyoto Prefecture Governor Takatoshi Nishiwaki and Kyoto City
Mayor Daisuke Kadokawa to ICOM Czech Republic Chair Martina Lehmannová and Board Member Pavel Jirásek.

Programme• Japanese Nihon Buyo Dance Performance by Kikunokai• Address by the ICOM President
Suay AKSOY• Presentation of the Letter of Appreciation
Koji Kinutani
Tatsumura Textile Co., Ltd.

• Address by the Organisers

Johei SASAKI
President of the ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee
Masami ZENIYA		 President of the Japanese Association of Museums• Congratulatory Speech by Distinguished Guest
Keiko NAGAOKAState Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology• Speeches from the Host Prefecture & City

Takatoshi NISHIWAKI
Governor of Kyoto Prefecture
Daisaku KADOKAWA		 Mayor of Kyoto City• Greeting by Next Host Country
Martina LEHMANNOVÁ

Chair of ICOM Czech Republic• Flag Handover Ceremony

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Keynote Speakers

Kengo KUMA
Architect
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He completed his master’s degree
at the University of Tokyo in 1979. He established Kengo Kuma &Associates in 1990. He taught at Keio University as Professor, andin 2009 he was installed as Professor at the Graduate School ofArchitecture, the University of Tokyo.
Kuma was awarded with Architectural Institute of Japan Annual
Award in 1997 for the Noh Stage in the Forest and Mainichi Art
Award in 2010 for Nezu Museum. Recent works include SuntoryMuseum of Art, Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center,
Nagaoka City Hall Aore, Kabukiza, Besançon Art Center and Citéde la Musique, FRAC Marseille and V&A Dundee. Kengo Kuma
& Associates are also working on the New National Stadium Japan
along with Taisei Corporation and Azusa Sekkei Co., Ltd.
He has also written numerous books and most of the titles
have been translated into Chinese and Korean. His major writings,
Anti-Object, Natural Architecture, Small Architecture have been
published in English from AA Publications, the book departmentof AA School, UK’s prestigious architecture institution.

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http://kkaa.co.jp/

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1. Kodama (Italy)
Photo by Kengo Kuma & Associates
2. V&A Dundee (Scotland, UK)
Photo by Hufton+Crow
3. Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum
Photo by Takumi Ota

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About the speech

Mr Kuma advocated that modern architecture has shiftedfrom the “Age of Concrete”, where humans had become
severed from nature, to the “Age of Forest”, connecting inharmony with nature.
Architecture is changing; developing into anintermediary that connects people and places. Museums
are also tools that can reinforce the ties between people
and places. For these reasons, he says that he designs
museums with an emphasis on the “connection” with theenvironment and the community. Specifically, (1) a placeof community where people can relax and interact like ina living room, (2) a place of education where a museum
and its collection plays a role that differs from school
education, and (3) through museums local artisans canuse local materials that connect them with the local
economy. These viewpoints are indispensable for themuseum.
In his speech, various examples of museums aroundthe world designed by Mr Kuma were introduced. Local
timber, paper, stones, and other materials were used tofoster a sense of local involvement at the Nakagawamachi Bato Hiroshige Museum of Art in Tochigi, Japan.

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The Age of Forest
Similarly, roof tiles made by local craftspeople wereused at the China Academy of Art’s Folk Art Museumin Hangzhou, China. At the FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art
Contemporain) in Marseille, France, locally recycled
glass is incorporated into the exterior wall material,
reducing environmental impact and revitalising the
local economy. The Japan House, Sao Paulo, Brazil was
designed by combining traditional Japanese crafts withdesigns generated by Brazilian youth. The V&A Dundee
in Scotland, U.K. incorporates Dundee’s cliffs into theexterior design and has a co-working space inside,creating a connection with the local community and a new
inward flow of people to the museum. The new National
Stadium, the venue for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics andParalympics, was designed to be “connected” to people
through facilities such as streams and promenades.
Through this keynote lecture, Mr Kuma’s perspectivethat a museum can be open to and accepting of people
like a forest, and can be a place that plays a role in society
by connecting with the nature and culture of the region,
resonated with the participants.

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Sebastião SALGADO
Photographer
Sebastião Salgado, born in 1944 in Minas Gerais, Brazil, lives
in Paris. Having studied economics, he began his career as aprofessional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with photoagencies until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed
Amazonas images, created exclusively for his work. Today thisstructure is their studio.
He travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects.
Beyond press publications, his main works were presented inbooks. Touring exhibitions of these works have been, and continue
to be, presented in museums and galleries throughout the world.
Salgado is currently working on a photographic project on
the theme of the Brazilian Amazon forest and its inhabitants, theindigenous communities. This work will be presented in the formof books and exhibitions in 2021.
Sebastião Salgado has been awarded numerous photographic
prizes in recognition of his accomplishments. He is the recipient ofprestigious honours, such as the Grand Prix National, Ministry of
Culture and French-Speaking Countries, France. In 2016, Salgado
was elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Institut deFrance, and was named Chevalier (Knight) de la Légion d’Honneur,
France. Salgado is an honorary member of the Academy ofArts and Sciences in USA. In 2019 Salgado was elected Foreign
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
New York, USA and he received the Peace Prize of the German
Book Trade, Germany.

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1. Chemical sprays protect this fire fighter against the heat of the flames.
Greater Burhan, after the Gulf War. Kuwait, 1991.
2. Korubo members of the Pinu family.
Indigenous territory of the Javari Valley.
State of Amazonas, Brazil. 2017.
3. Group of Waura fishing in the Piulaga Lake. Upper Xingu,
Mato Grosso Brazil. 2005.

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About the speech

Mr Salgado’s keynote speech started with an introduction
to the current situation in the Amazon, and was thenfollowed by a video of his photographs accompanied bymusic. Thus, participants could engage with the lives ofindigenous people through his perspective, and be active
during the question and answer session.
The presentation of the current situation in the
Amazon began with a numeric explanation that 19%of the Amazon’s forests have already been destroyed
due to ongoing large-scale deforestation. Mr Salgado
argued that an initiative to develop new and creative
forms of protection and sustainable management for theremaining 81% of the Amazon region cannot be achieved
only by legislation, but also requires raising awareness.
He also pointed out that as age-old guardians of theforest, indigenous peoples can — and already do —play a central role. According to his speech, there are 130
languages, 165 tribes, and a total of 300,000 indigenous
people living in the Amazon. However, the original
population of 4–5,000,000 decreased dramatically overthe last 500 years due to diseases imported from theKeynote Speakers

A Brazilian Amazon Forest Initiative
countries of Western Europe. The budget of health careorganisations working with indigenous people has been
cut by the government. Therefore, he believes that it isnecessary to act to protect indigenous people as well as
the natural environment.
To this end, Mr Salgado is building up a broader
archive of the Amazon region by photographing boththe natural environment and indigenous people, andthrough these archives aims to raise people’s awarenessof the region. The photos will also be made public bypublishing books and holding exhibitions, and these canserve as catalysts for raising awareness of the need toprotect the Amazon forest and its native population, andfor generating new approaches to utilising its natural andhuman resources without further damaging them.
In the final question and answer session, participants
discussed how museum experts could contribute tosocial change. It was argued that museums are crucial
in conveying the current situation in the Amazon andencouraging people to take action, and the museum
must be more open and accessible.

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Keynote Speakers

CAI Guo-Qiang
ArtistCai Guo-Qiang is an artist born in 1957 in Quanzhou, China. He
was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy from1981 to 1985, and his work has since crossed multiple mediums
within art, including drawing, installation, video, and performance.
Cai began to experiment with gunpowder in his hometown
Quanzhou, and continued exploring its properties while living
in Japan from 1986 to 1995. This inquiry eventually led to thedevelopment of his signature outdoor explosion events. Drawing
upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as aconceptual basis, his artworks respond to culture and history andestablish an exchange between viewers and the larger universearound them. His explosion art and installations are imbued witha force that transcends the two-dimensional plane to engage withsociety and nature.
Cai was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in1999, the Hiroshima Art Prize in 2007, and the Fukuoka Asian
Culture Prize in 2009. In 2012, he was honoured as a Laureate forthe prestigious Praemium Imperiale, and in the same year, he wasnamed as one of the five artists to receive the first U.S. Departmentof State Medal of Arts for his outstanding commitment tointernational cultural exchange. He currently lives and works in
New York.

Photo by Yvonne Zhao, courtesy Cai Studiohttps://caiguoqiang.com/

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1. Heritage, 2013
Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA
Courtesy: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
2. Color Gunpowder Drawing for City of Flowers in the Sky: Daytime Explosion Event for Florence, 2018
Photo by Wen-You Cai, courtesy Cai Studio
3. Footprints of History: Fireworks Project for the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 2008
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4 Sep. 10:30 –11:00
About the speech

Mr Cai’s keynote started with a video produced specificallyfor ICOM Kyoto 2019, introducing his exhibition andmuseum works. After this he took to the stage to speak
alongside an engaging series of images presented in the
Lianhuanhua style of traditional Chinese storybooks.
His perspective on museums was demonstrated throughsharing his experiences of exhibitions that he has been
involved with.
The projects he has implemented so far include“Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang” at the National
Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, which combines
Terracotta Warriors and contemporary art, and theexhibition “Non-brand” at the Guggenheim Museum in
New York. These are large-scale projects. Also, he has been
involved with various museums through numerous solo
exhibitions, including those held at the Pushkin Museumof Art in Moscow, the Prado Museum in Madrid, theUffizi Gallery in Florence, the National ArchaeologicalMuseum in Naples, as well as the Yokohama Art Museum

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My Museum Yearsand Setagaya Art Museum in Japan.
In discussing the exhibition named “Last Carnival”,
Mr Cai expressed that the inspiration for this installation
had come from his own museum experience when heviewed a painting by Rubens in the Prado Museum.
He stated that this is one of the roles of the museum.
Furthermore, in a series of projects named “Everythingis Museum” in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan,
the experience of linking art projects with residents inareas typically considered difficult by contemporary
trends in museum-building was introduced. He argued
not only for the economic value of museums, which has
been attracting attention in recent years, but also theimportance of museums for residents.
In this keynote speech, Mr Cai showed the importanceof cross-border and cross-generational efforts by people
to overcome the conflict between local and global,
tradition and future through his work, and presented
future possibilities and roles for the museum.

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Plenary Sessions

Curating Sustainable Future Through Museums
2 Sep. 11:45 –13:15

Museums constitute a wide network that exists in all
regions of the world. They are ideally suited to play acentral role in helping achieve the “UN’s Transforming
our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development”, better known as the ‘Sustainable
Development Goals’. By engaging in initiatives directed
at long-term environmental protection, social justiceand equitable economic issues, and exchanges; a criticalmass of actors can form and have the potential to support
and benefit society, the environment, and the economy.
Museums of all types are increasingly working
individually and in synergy to help create a better futureacross all scales at which they operate: locally, nationallyand globally. To achieve a more sustainable society they28

are drawing on their unique collections and working
with local and global communities and partners of allmanner. They aim to foster community engagement andeducation programmes that explore, imagine, frame andproactively generate sustainable futures. Within the new
UN 2030 Agenda, museums have increasing potential toact as information resources, communicators, educators,
facilitators, activists and advocates, and as users ofnatural resources to achieve these aims.
Considering the various local and global aspects ofsustainability, during the session explored different
paths and strategies that museums are following andcan follow to support the unprecedented challenges that
cultural institutions and societies face.

Moderator

Morien REES

Museum Development Advisor, Varanger Museum
Chair, ICOM Working Group on Sustainability

Morien Rees is a Museum Development Advisor at Varanger Museum (Norway). He studied architecture at the University ofWales and art history at the University of Oslo. He practised architecture until 1994. Since 1994 he has worked in the museum
sector. At present, he is employed in Varanger Museum on the Norway’s arctic coast. He is the chair of ICOM’s Working Groupon Sustainability (ICOM WGS).
Speaker

Bonita Alison BENNETT

Director, District Six Museum

Plenary Sessions

Bonita Bennett was appointed as the director of the District Six Museum in 2008. Her professional training is as an educatorwith strong anti-apartheid activist roots and she completed both her under- and post-graduate degrees at the University ofCape Town. Her Master’s dissertation focused on narratives of people who were forcibly removed from various areas in theWestern Cape under Apartheid. She is currently registered as a doctoral student at the University of Pretoria. Both her parents
are from District Six, and she grew up in a township on the Cape Flats with other families who were displaced. The District
Six Museum provides a wonderful platform from which to confront the legacies of Apartheid displacement, and to also raiseawareness about the indivisibility of human rights.
Speaker

Yacy-Ara FRONER

Professor, School of Fine Arts, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Member, ICOM Working Group on Sustainability

Yacy-Ara Froner holds a degree in History from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (1988), a Master’s in Social History (1994)
and a PhD in Economic History (2001), with emphasis on cultural heritage, by University of Sao Paulo (USP). She was trainedin restoration by the Center for Conservation and Restoration (CECOR) (1992) and in conservation by the Getty Conservation
Institute (GCI) (1995). She is currently a professor at the School of Fine Arts, at the undergraduate courses in Visual Arts andConservation-Restoration, and lecturing at the Graduate Program in Arts. She also coordinates the Graduate Program in Built
Environment and Sustainable Heritage of the Faculty of Architecture of Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Speaker

Cecilia LAM

Director, Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change
Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Cecilia Lam is the Founding Director of the Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change and the Director of the Campus Planningand Sustainability Office at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. Witha portfolio including strategic planning and sustainability in higher education, she also oversees the program operations of
the Hong Kong Chapter of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN Hong Kong) and serves as amember of the Hong Kong Sustainable Campus Consortium.
Speaker

Henry MCGHIE

Founder, Curating Tomorrow
Member, ICOM Working Group on Sustainability

Henry McGhie has had a lifelong passion for nature, and has a background as a bird ecologist. He worked at Manchester
Museum, part of the University, from 2000–2019, as a curator and head of the Museum’s curatorial team. He oversaw thedevelopment of award-winning galleries and special exhibitions linked to environmental sustainability and climate change. He
has helped broker partnerships between researchers, museums and policy workers, both in the UK and internationally, and is amember of the Working Group on Sustainability established by ICOM in 2018. Henry is interested in finding ways to acceleratemuseums’ contributions to nature conservation, climate action and the Sustainable Development Goals, and working withpeople and organisations who want to go farther, faster together towards a world where people and nature flourish together.
Speaker

Mamoru MOHRI

Chief Executive Director, Miraikan - National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Dr Mamoru Mohri was the first Japanese astronaut on Space Shuttle, as well as the first CEO of Miraikan serving as a liaison
between researchers and society. His new style in science communication creates Cool Japan in the science centre world
including live TV “Space Classroom” and the first solar eclipse TV broadcast from Antarctica. He also dove 6,500m into thedeep sea. He enjoys an everlasting challenge to explore the unknown. Dr. Mohri hosted for Science Center World Summit 2017as the Chair and established the “Tokyo Protocol” to contribute to achieving the UN’s SDGs.
SpeakerSarah SUTTON

Principal, Sustainable Museums
Executive Committee Member, We Are Still In

As a consultant, Ms. Sutton, LEED-AP (a certification in sustainability), works with staff and leadership of cultural organizations as
they develop sustainable solutions and foster climate action. As a member of the Executive Committee for We Are Still In, andas its Cultural Institutions Sector Lead, she strengthens the American sector’s support of the Paris Agreement. She is co-chairof the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Task Force on Environment & Climate, and a board memberof the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Environment & Climate Network. She is a co-author of The Green Museum andauthor of Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites & Museums. She is a 2019 Salzburg Global Fellow.

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Plenary Sessions

The Museum Definition
The backbone of ICOM
3 Sep. 10:30 –12:00

Over recent decades museums have adjusted andre-invented their purpose, policies and practices to thepoint where the ICOM museum definition no longer
seems to reflect our challenges, manifold visions andresponsibilities. To address this issue the Standing
Committee for Museum Definition, Prospects andPotentials (MDPP), was established in early 2017 with themandate of exploring the need for a new ICOM museum
definition. After analysing the paradigms and history thathave shaped museums and the current social trends thathave impacted museums; in January 2019 ICOM invitedmembers and interested parties to submit proposals
for a new definition under a set of parameters. MDPP
subsequently collected and processed the proposals
and selected five alternative definitions to submit to the
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one alternative definition, which was communicatedon ICOM’s website. The plenum brought together four
MDPP members and two external voices to illustrate
the contemporary societal issues and challenges thatreflect the different aspects of a multi-faceted process.
Presentations and discussions included:
A presentation on the overall need to change themuseum definition and the vision and potential forthe new definition
A discussion of epistemologies, world views andsustainability
A discussion of power, geopolitics and decolonisation
A discussion of communities and participation,
empowerment and agency
An opportunity for discussion around the proposed
definition

Moderator and Speaker

Jette SANDAHL

Chair, ICOM Standing Committees on the Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials Committee

Jette Sandahl was the founding director of the pioneering Museum of World Cultures in Sweden and the Women’s Museum of
Denmark. She served as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the National Museum of Denmark, and as Director
Experience at National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Most recently, she was director of the Museum of
Copenhagen. She attended the Getty Museum Management Institute and has held a number of elected and appointed posts inthe national and international museum world. She currently chairs the European Museum Forum as well as the ICOM standing
committee Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials. Spanning her background in psychology and her museum career is acommitment to the formation of new paradigms and platforms for empowerment, cultural participation and social justice. She
publishes within the broad museological field.

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SpeakerGeorge Okello ABUNGUCEO, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants

George H.O. Abungu is a Cambridge-trained archaeologist and former director-general of the National Museums of Kenya. He is
CEO of Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Defense of Art from the Association
for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA). He is also a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts des Lettres)of the Republic of France for his outstanding contribution to heritage at local and global levels as well as the first African recipientof the World Heritage Fund Award for his contribution to capacity building in the field of heritage in Africa. George has researched,published and taught in the disciplines of archaeology, heritage management, and museology, culture and development. He is
former Vice-President of ICOM, was Kenya’s representative to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, and vice president of its
bureau. He is founding associate professor of the M.A. in heritage management at the University of Mauritius and a fellow of theStellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
SpeakerMargaret ANDERSON

Director, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne

Margaret Anderson is a senior public historian and museum administrator who currently directs the Old Treasury Buildingin Melbourne. In a long career, she held senior museum positions in Western Australia and South Australia and in the 1980s
was Foundation Director of the Migration Museum. She pioneered discussions in Australia encouraging museums to partnerwith community groups. Margaret is a feminist historian with research interests in women’s history and material history. She isespecially interested in debates about conflicted views of the past and the capacity of museums to present ‘difficult histories’. In
the MDPP, she chairs the Working Group exploring Cultural Democracies and Participatory Practices.
Speaker

Lauran BONILLA-MERCHAV

Professor, University of Costa Rica
Chair, ICOM Costa Rica

Lauran Bonilla-Merchav received her PhD in Art History from City University of New York, the Graduate Center. She is currently
serving her second term as Chair of ICOM Costa Rica and is the treasurer of ICOM LAC Regional Alliance. Besides being amember of ICOM’s Museum Definition, Prospects and Potentials (MDPP) Standing Committee, she is on the Steering Committeeof the EU-LAC Museums project, an initiative funded by the European Union that studies community museums and fosters
bi-regional interaction and learning. Bonilla-Merchav teaches Art History and Museology courses at the University of Costa Rica.
Speaker

Shose KESSI

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Deputy Dean for Transformation in the Humanities
Faculty at the University of Cape Town

Shose Kessi is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Deputy Dean for Transformation in the Humanities
Faculty at the University of Cape Town. She is also co-director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa. Her
research centers on political psychology and institutional change, exploring issues of identity, such as race, class, and gender, andhow these impact on people’s participation in transformation efforts. A key focus is the development of Photovoice methodology
as a participatory action research tool that can raise consciousness and mobilize community groups into social action.
Speaker

Nirmal KISHNANIAssociate Professor, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore

Dr Nirmal Kishnani is an Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore where he teaches sustainability at the
Department of Architecture and is Programme Director of the Master of Science, Integrated Sustainable Design. Since 2002,
he has been part of the conversation on Asia, consulting on projects and influencing policies that shape design practice. Since2008 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the FuturArc magazine and resident jury chair of two Asia-based design competitions– FuturArc Prize and FuturArc Green Leadership Award – that he helped set up.
SpeakerW. Richard WEST Jr.

President and CEO, Autry Museum of the American West
Board Member, ICOM US

W. Richard West, Jr. serves as President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles and is Director
Emeritus and Founding Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is a citizenof the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a member of the Southern Cheyenne Society of Peace Chiefs. Westcurrently is a member of the Board of Directors of ICOM US and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, andpreviously served on the Boards of the Ford Foundation, Stanford University, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. He also was
Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Alliance of Museums (1998–2000) and Vice-President of the International
Council of Museums (2007–2010).

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Plenary Sessions

Museums in Times of Disaster:Be prepared, respond effectively, and preserve cultural heritage
4 Sep. 9:00 –10:15

In the event of a large-scale disaster, museums mustreact in an effective, conscious, and swift way to save
lives and their collections. Disaster planning is a legal
responsibility in the museum field and conforming to
the ICOM Code of Ethics is an important element to
its professionalism. Museums need to create effective
disaster plans that include measures for mitigation,
preparedness, response, and recovery. Museum directors
need to obtain support from boards and ministries
to ensure enough resources for their staff to develop,
practice, and carry out these crucial tasks. Museums
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cultural heritage into local and national disaster plans;calling for strategies to protect cultural property (andheritage workers) in the event of armed conflict; and evenhelping their communities find hope, identity, andmeaning during post-disaster recovery.
During the session, different case studies were
presented on how to respond to disasters impacting
museums and communities: training museum staff
and other disaster “First Aiders”, advocating for theprotection of heritage in times of armed conflict, andintegrating heritage into international, national, andlocal response mechanisms.

Moderator

Corine WEGENER

Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative
Chair, ICOM Disaster Risk Management Committee

Corine Wegener is Director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, an outreach program dedicated to the protection ofcultural heritage in disasters in the U.S. and internationally. An art historian, she was formerly associate curator of Americanand European Decorative Arts at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. A retired U.S. Army Reserve Arts, Monuments, and Archives
Officer, Wegener continues to work with the military on training for protection of cultural property in armed conflict. She isfounding past president of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, chair of ICOM’s Disaster Risk Management Committee, anda member of ICOM US.
Speaker

Plenary Sessions

Yuichi ONO

Tohoku University

Yuichi Ono received a PhD in Geography (Climatology and Wind-related Hazard) at Kent State University, U.S.A. Between 2002–03,
he worked with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He contributed to developing the disaster risk reduction
programme. Between 2003 and 2009, with UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), he worked on an early
warning system and helped develop and manage the ISDR Scientific and Technical Committee. He is the former Chief, Disaster
Risk Reduction Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), providing a regional
platform for cooperation and policymaking for disaster risk reduction, with particular attention to developing countries andvulnerable social groups. Currently, He is a Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku
University and a Director of the Global Centre for Disaster Statistics (GCDS) as well. He is the founder and CEO of the World
Bosai Forum Foundation which will convene the Second World Bosai (Disaster Risk Reduction) Forum to be held in Sendai, Japan
during November 9–12, 2019.
Speaker

Alejandra PEÑA GUTIÉRREZ

Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Board Member, ICOM US

Alejandra Peña is a certified Architect from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has Art History Master’s
Degree. Her experience in the field of museums starts in 1992 as Head of the Museographic Department of the Museo Nacionalde San Carlos, later she worked as Associate Curator for the Museo de Arte Moderno, then as Deputy Director at the Museo delPalacio de Bellas Artes where later she also held the position of Director. In 2001 she was appointed Deputy Director Generalof the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) in Mexico. She was Executive Assistant to the General Director of INBA,
then Director of Cultural Promotion for the Directorate General of Educational and Cultural Collaboration of the Ministryof Foreign Affairs. From 2009 to 2012, she held the position of Deputy Director General of Artistic Heritage for INBA. Since2013 she is the Executive Director of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. Alejandra Peña has been a member of the
Association of Art Museum Directors since 2014 and part of the ICOM-US Board since 2018.
Speaker

Aparna TANDONICCROM

Aparna Tandon specialises in crisis response and disaster risk management for cultural heritage. She has 25 years of postqualification work experience in cultural heritage conservation and has conducted professional training for the conservationof cultural heritage in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and South America. As a Project Manager at ICCROM, she iscoordinating its international capacity development programme on First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage (FAR).
Additionally, she leads the SOIMA (Sound and Image Collections Conservation) programme aimed at safeguarding endangered audiovisual heritage. In the past, she has contributed to the planning and implementation of Teamwork for Integrated Emergency
Management, a collaborative training initiative of ICCROM.
Speaker

Renata VIEIRA DA MOTTA

Chair, ICOM Brazil

Researcher (PhD) in museum studies, with a focus on cultural aspects of public policy and management of art museums. She
worked as a researcher for various cultural and art institutions in Brazil before being appointed Director of the Instituto Sergio
Motta (ISM), Director of the State System of Museums of Sao Paulo (SISEM-SP) and Director of the Museological Heritage
Preservation Unit (UPPM) at the Sao Paulo State Secretariat of Culture. Since 2017, she is an Advisor of the University of Sao
Paulo (USP), in the area of museums and collections. Established at the Rector’s Office, she provides support for the five main
museums of USP. Besides that, she takes part of the working group “Museu Paulista 2022” dedicated to the full renovation ofMuseu Paulista’s historical building. She was elected ICOM Brazil’s Chair for the period from 2018 to 2021.

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Plenary Sessions

Asian Art Museums & Collections in the World
4 Sep. 11:00 –12:15

This session investigated ways that Asian art museums
and collections can deepen their connections with local
and foreign audiences, and the benefits that can beobtained through the coordination of museums aroundthe globe. It also examined, based on specific casestudies, recent moves at museums worldwide to promotea deeper understanding of Asian art. Christoph Lind,
the Chair of ICOM ICFA, spoke on the need to revise
inappropriate categories used for Asian art from thestandpoint of melding the art of East and West, in keepingwith the ICFA’s theme for the conference: “Western Art
in Asian Museums, Asian Art in Western Museums”.
Masatomo Kawai, who is involved in numerous overseas
exhibitions of Japanese art, spoke on the significance ofincorporating traditional approaches into the exhibiting
and appreciation of Japanese art. Australian museum
curator MinJung Kim, made the statement that “Asianart exists as a collection of hybrid objects”, and went34

on to argue the importance of looking at these hybrid
cultural objects without imposing negative colonial-era
perceptions of Asia on them. Japanese art historian Anne
Nishimura Morse, after pointing out the increasing
age of Japanese art historians in the US, introduced
programmes and other efforts carried out by the Arts
Dialogue Committee of the US-Japan Conference on
Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) andthe International Workshop on Japanese Art History
for Graduate Students (JAWS), and stressed the need tobuild an international network of Japanese art experts.
Yukio Lippit, the moderator, wrapped up the session bysubmitting that, with the present worldwide circulationof Asian art collections, it is important to evaluate Asianart globally and from the perspective that it is a hybrid
collection of works born from the convergence of history
and culture.

Moderator

Yukio LIPPIT

Harvard University

Yukio Lippit is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and former Director of the Arts at the
Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study. He is a specialist in Japanese painting, and has curated exhibitions at the National Galleryof Art, Washington D.C., the Freer Gallery of Art, and the Japan Society of New York.
Speaker

Masatomo KAWAI

Director, Chiba City Museum of Art

Plenary Sessions

Born in Tokyo in 1941, Professor Kawai did his doctoral coursework in the Graduate School of Letters at Keio University. In 1969
he joined the faculty at Keio as a teaching assistant, eventually becoming a professor in 1988. Since 2007, he has been professor
emeritus at Keio University. In 2012, he also became director of the Chiba City Museum of Art.
Speaker

Min-Jung KIM

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

Min-Jung Kim is a curator of Asian Arts and Design at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS, also known as Powerhouse
Museum) in Sydney, Australia. Kim was born and educated in South Korea and has lived in Australia. She attained Master ofArts in Curatorial and Museum Studies from the University of Sydney and has worked at MAAS for the last 12 years. Kim
has published and lectured widely on Korean textiles, ceramics and metalworks, Japanese fashion, Chinese belt toggles andcuratorial studies. Selective exhibitions she curated include Rapt in colour (1998), Earth, Spirit and Fire (2000), Sprit of Jang-in(2010), Japanese folds (2015) and Reflections of Asia (2018).
Speaker

Christoph LIND

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
Chair, ICOM ICFA

M.A. in Art History, Sinology, Japanology, PhD in Art History, curator at Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical
Germany in 2003, Head of Exhibition Department of Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen,
Mannheim, Germany; since 2015 director Fine Arts and Cultural History at Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany.
Exhibition projects (choice): German Colonial History in Qingdao, China; Prussian coronation 1701; Lu Chuntao. Painting;
China Architecture: 100 Projects; The Arts of Baroque, Belle Époque, Fine Arts for Prince Electors.
Museum), Berlin, secretary of ICOM

Speaker

Anne Nishimura MORSE

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Anne Nishimura Morse is the William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,where she most recently organized the exhibitions In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3–11 (2015) and Takashi
Murakami: Lineage of Eccentrics (2017). In Japan she has also presented Japanese Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (Tokyo National Museum, 2012), and Double Impact: The Art of Meiji Japan (Tokyo University of the Arts, 2015). She currently
serves as the co-chair for the Arts Dialogue Committee of the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange(CULCON).

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Panels Decolonisation and Restitution
Moving towards a more holistic perspective and relational approach

2 Sep. 14:30 –16:00 / 16:30 –18:00
As issues regarding restitution of museum collections
have gained renewed attention it is imperative that wemove to decolonise cultural and educational institutions.
It is clear that decolonising museums will have far
reaching implications for how museums manage,interpret and present their collections. Fundamental tothis discussion have been issues of ownership, control andpower: who are the rightful owners of objects collected
as a result of colonialism and its legacies; who controls
the narratives that give meaning to these collections, andwho has the power to set museum agendas and prioritise
whose voices.
This session explored and examined how the sector isleading and responding to the decolonisation movement.
It considered how decolonisation is influencing therestitution discourse; by tracing and mapping new
ways of studying these issues, by providing new creative
problem solving methods, and offering new approaches
to conflict resolution.

Moderators

Afşin ALTAYLIICOM Secretariat
Museums and Society Coordinator

Tonya NELSON
Chair, ICOM UK

Speakers (Part 1)

Speakers (Part 2)

Marilia BONASLuc EEKHOUT

Alec COLES

Christian Nana TCHUISSEU

Reena DEWAN

Bertrand GUILLETHead of the Memorial of the Resistance of São Paulo
Board Member, ICOM Brazil

CEO, Western Australian Museum
Former Chair, ICOM Australia

Vice-President, Kolkata Centre for Creativity
Chair, ICOM India

William U. EILAND

Director, Georgia Museum of Art
Board Member, ICOM UK

Laura PYE

Director, National Museums Liverpool
ICOM UK Representative

Michèle RIVET

Vice-Chair, Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Board Member, ICOM Canada

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Director, Heeswijk Castle
Chair, ICOM Netherlands

 irector, Blackitude Museum
D
Chair, ICOM Cameroon

 irector, Château des ducs de Bretagne D
Musée d’histoire de Nantes Le Mémorial de l’abolition de l’esclavage
ICOM France Representative

Nehoa Hilma KAPUKA roject Development Manager,
P
Museums Association of Namibia
ICOM Namibia Representative

Beate REIFENSCHEID
Director, Ludwig Museum
Chair, ICOM Germany Possibilities and Impossibilities of Exhibiting Manga/Comic:
A comparison between manga/comic exhibitions in the UK, South Korea, and Japan

4 Sep. 14:30 –16:00
use. For the Genga’ (Dash) project, holding an exhibition
displaying these archived items is one of those uses.
Afterwards, Kazuma Yoshimura and Yu Ito discussed
the value of original manga drawings with the speakers.
Since they are creations of “human hands”, Rousmaniere
added that the original drawings were the most importantpart of the exhibition at the British Museum.
Junghoon Nam, who works with webtoons(predominantly created as digital data), followed by stating thatthe reason original drawings are considered importantis because they are a part of the creation process before
publication. Being before publication most readers don’t
have the opportunity to see the original drawings. Thereis a creation process for both digital and analogue manga,
Nam tries to show the digital creation side of webtoons at
the BGWC.

PanelsNicole Rousmaniere spoke about how “The Citi
Exhibition: Manga” (held at the British Museum between May
23 and Aug 26, 2019) came to be. She also talked about
visitors’ reactions to the exhibition and how employees’
perception of the exhibition has changed over time.
After that, Busan Global Webtoon Center (BGWC)
curator Junghoon Nam used photos and videos in
discussing various aspects of the past three exhibitions.
The next speaker, Sookyung Yoo, introduced “Genga(Dash)”, a project from the Kyoto International Manga
Museum/Kyoto Seika University International Manga
Research Center (her affiliation). It is a project to makeelaborate reproductions of original manga drawings,
which is being carried out as a part of archiving mangarelated items. She pointed out that it is important tothink how these archived items could be put to good

Speakers

Yu ITO

Sookyung YOO

Junghoon NAM

Kazuma YOSHIMURA yoto Seika University International Manga Research Center
K
Kyoto International Manga Museum

Busan Webtoon Festival

 yoto Seika University International Manga Research Center
K
Kyoto International Manga Museum

Kyoto Seika University(Busan Global Webtoon Center)

Nicole Coolidge ROUSMANIERE

British Museum
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Panels
Museums and Local Development
4 Sep. 16:30 –18:00
Over the last decade, ICOM has been strengthening
its partnerships with high-level intergovernmentalorganisations to promote the role that museums can play
to create better contemporary societies.
ICOM’s cooperation with the OECD led to the
publication of the Guide for Local Governments,
Communities and Museums. ICOM drafted a manual
based on UNESCO’s 2015 Recommendations concerning,“The Protection and Promotion of Museums andCollections, Diversity and Role in Society”. It illustrates
concrete ways in which museums and local governments
can collaborate to ensure museums remain a priority on
the agenda of decision and policy makers.

As a capacity building and advocacy tool, the guidealso reflects ICOM’s agenda on sustainable development
following the creation of an ICOM Working Group on
Sustainability in August 2018.
With this aim, the joint session by ICOM and OECDbrought together representatives from museums,
local governments and international networks of local
and regional governments. Various aspects of therelationships between museums, communities and local
governments, future strategies in developing stronger
policies, and action plans to better implement local andsustainable development agendas were all discussed.

Moderators

Speakers

Dorota FOLGA-JANUSZEWSKA

Daisaku KADOKAWA

 eputy Director at the King Jan III Palace Museum in Wilanow,
D
Warsaw
Former Chair, ICOM Poland

Joana Sousa MONTEIRO
Director, Museum of Lisbon
Chair, ICOM CAMOC

Mayor of Kyoto, Kyoto City Government

Lamia KAMAL-CHAOUI irector, OECD - Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs,
D
Regions and Cities

Peter KELLERICOM Director General

Luis Orlando REPETTO MÁLAGA

 irector, Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions ofD
the Riva-Agüero Institute of the Pontificia Universidad
Católica
Vice-Chair, ICOM Peru

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Workshops Publishing and Writing Workshop
How to get your work published in scholarly
and professional publications

2 Sep. 11:45 –13:15

2 Sep. 14:30 –16:00
The workshop was meant for anyone interested in
exploring how to ‘power up’ museums and its practices
with regard to environmental and social issues. Using the
Sustainable Development Goals as a guide, the workshop
focused on sharing ideas and initiatives and taking thenext steps to accelerate the capacity of museums inengaging the hearts and minds in sustainable responsible
world.
Tradition and sustainability are interdependent.
Traditional knowledge and practices can give powerful
insight into a balanced and sustainable way of living
in our world. Living sustainably, across all the world’s
communities, is the prerequisite for the sustenance of theworld’s diversity of cultural practice.
Participants reflected on their personal ‘superpower’
and their museum’s ‘superpower’, and how these canbe locally and globally mobilized in the pursuit ofenvironmental and social sustainability.

Moderator

Speakers

Moderators

Aedín MAC DEVITT

George COOPERHenry MCGHIEICOM Secretariat
Head of Publications andDocumentation Department

Taylor&Francis

Melanie FOEHNICOM Secretariat
Editorial Coordinator

Heidi LOWTHER

Workshops

The aim of this workshop was to assist museum
professionals and researchers in getting their proposals
selected and their work published in scholarly andprofessional journals and books.
The workshop was divided into three sections:
1. Getting your work published
The ICOM editorial team offered insights into theselection and peer review processes for ICOM’s
journal, Museum International, and its otherpublications. They provided advice on how to write
a successful abstracts for a journal article or a bookchapter, and how to get a full paper through the peer
reviewing and editing processes. A representativeof ICOM’s publishing partner, Taylor&Francis/
Routledge, outlined the proposal process for books.
2. Today’s publishing environmentRepresentatives of Taylor&Francis/Routledge shared
their expertise on copyright issues, open access policies
and publishing ethics. They advised participants on
how to adopt the right reflexes when citing othersources and requesting permissions.
3. Writing in English
This section began with some general advice on writingin English and was followed by and an interactive
session with participants divided into small groups towork on English-writing exercises.

 Curating Sustainable Futures ThroughMuseums

Founder, Curating Tomorrow
Member, ICOM WGS

Jenny NEWELL

 anager, Pacific and International Collections, Australian Museum
M
Member, ICOM WGS

Taylor&Francis

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Workshops Digital and Smart ICOM through the Lens – Membership

Creating and running communications
campaigns and partnerships

database workshop for ICOM National
Committees managers – How to start using IRIS

3 Sep. 10:30 –12:00

3 Sep. / 4 Sep. 12:30 –13:30

The aim of this workshop was to provide participants
with the basics and the tools needed to create and executecompelling digital communications campaigns and toestablish meaningful co-communications with partners.
The main focus of this workshop was to communicate
how to achieve the greatest impact while maintaining theutmost efficiency.
The workshop was divided in two parts:
1. Create and run your campaignTh e ICOM Communications team introduced thethree main communication tools available for the
ICOM Committees: the Social Media Guideline andPolicy, the Visibility Exchange Agreement, and the
new ICOM Website.
2 . Success story: the Launch of the ICOM-OECD
Guide for Local Governments, Communities andMuseumsTh
 e ICOM and OECD Communications teams
presented the campaign launch for the ICOM-OECD
Guide and discussed the key points that made it one of
the most successful campaigns for ICOM in 2018.

The IRIS database workshop was open to all National
Committees managers who wished to learn more about
ICOM’s common and shared membership management
tool’s along with its accessibility, usage, and features. It
offered participants an opportunity to learn about its
functions and to interact with other users in order to get
actively involved in ICOM membership management.
The workshop was structured in two parts:
1. Presentation of the IRIS database, its access, usage,
and features2. Practical cases How to create a new member? How
to export a list of members? Testimony of a key user

Speakers

Speakers

Laetitia CONORT

Sonia AGUDO

Alexandra FERNÁNDEZ COEGO

Benjamin GRANJONICOM Secretariat
Digital Communication Officer

ICOM Secretariat
Communications CoordinatorFrancesca POLLICINIICOM Secretariat
Events Manager

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ICOM Secretariat
IT Systems Manager

ICOM Secretariat
Head of Membership Department

 The Backbone of Museums?
Roundtables on a New Museum Definition

3 Sep. 14:30 –16:00 / 16:30 –18:00
The first session, initially structured as roundtablediscussions to address these parameters, was turned intoa Town Hall meeting during which participants wereinvited to share their questions, thoughts and feelings on
the new proposal and process.
In the second session, ICOM Committee
representatives presented their arguments for andagainst the new definition. An open discussion thenallowed participants to express their views.
Both sessions aimed at providing a platform for as
many voices as possible to be heard.

Workshops

When ICOM invited members to suggest alternative
museum definitions, some basic parameters wererecommended on what the new definition should becomprised of and how it should be viewed by the greaterpublic.
These parameters pointed to: the inclusion of clear
values and ethical purposes as well as references tosocietal, geopolitical and sustainability conflicts; theimportance of retaining the unique characteristics
of museum functions; the need for inventing a new
relational language to express the changing relationships
between museums and their communities.
Moderators

Afşin ALTAYLIAlberto GARLANDINIGeorge Okello ABUNGU

Kenson KWOKICOM Secretariat
Museums and Society Coordinator

ICOM Vice-president
Member, ICOM MDPP and Representative of the Executive Board

CEO of Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants
Member, ICOM Standing Committee on the Museum Definition,
Prospects and Potentials (MDPP)

Founding Director, Asian Civilisations Museum,and Peranakan Museum
Member, ICOM MDPP

Margaret ANDERSON

Jette SANDAHL

Director, Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
Member, ICOM MDPP

Lauran BONILLA-MERCHAV

Professor, University of Costa Rica
Chair, ICOM Costa Rica and Member, ICOM MDPP

Chair, ICOM MDPP

W. Richard WEST Jr.

 resident and CEO, Autry Museum of the American WestP
Board Member, ICOM US and Member, ICOM MDPP

David FLEMING

 rofessor of Public History at Liverpool Hope University
P
Member, ICOM MDPP

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Networking Sessions
ICOM Newcomers Session
2 Sep. 13:30 –14:30
This welcome session was open to all new members of
ICOM who wished to know more about this internationalorganisation, and its institutional processes, missions
and activities. It offered participants the opportunity
to meet and interact with network actors in order tobecome actively involved in the ICOM community andits different committees.

Staff members of the ICOM Secretariat presented
the activities of their respective departments, with aparticular focus on Capacity Building, Communications,
Membership and Publications. They also illustrated thefunding opportunities for members, which was meant toencourage the participation of museum professionals ininternational conferences.

ICOM Mentoring Session Let Experience Inspire You!
3 Sep. / 4 Sep. 12:30 –13:30
Since 2013, ICOM organises Mentoring Sessions at theGeneral Conference in order to facilitate interaction
between young ICOM members and experienced
museum professionals from different cultural andprofessional backgrounds to discuss and exchange
knowledge and experiences.
On 3 and 4 September each, a mentoring session of
one hour was animated simultaneously by five mentors
from different parts of the world, who focused on one of
the following main museum topics:
1. Conservation: Achal Pandya (India); Dr Renata F.
Peters (United Kingdom)2 . Education: Milene (Mila) Chiovatto (Brazil); Dr Ani
Avagyan (Armenia)42

3. Management: Muthoni Josephine Thang’wa (Kenya);
Dr Shirin Melikova (Azerbaijan)
4. Communication and Marketing: Dr Matthias
Henkel PhD (Germany); Jacques Terrière (France)
5. Curatorship: Maja Chankulovska-Mihajlovska
(Republic of Macedonia); Tshepiso Gabonthone (Botswana)
All ten mentors shared their respective experiences
acquired during their professional careers and provided
unique insight through animated group discussions.
ICOM Secretariat encouraged mentors and participants tocontinue to exchange and share information through online
platforms. Despite the sessions’ being only one hour, many
participants welcomed the format and the opportunity to
openly and informally discuss topics relevant to museums.

Memorial Lecture
The Stephen E. Weil Memorial Lecture commemorated
the work of this outstanding pioneer and author of
museum studies, recognizing his contributions to
the world of museums and to the development of themuseum profession.
Since 2006, the organisers of the lectures have invited
eminent figures from the sector of museums and culture
to present papers that consider the role of museums incontemporary society and to provide new perspectives
for museums and their professionals.
This year, the lecture was organized by ICOM,ICOM US and the ICOM International Committee
on Management (INTERCOM). The latter who invited

Colombian cultural manager Lucía González
who currently serves as the Commissioner of theCommission for the Truth Clarification, Coexistenceand No-repetition (Colombia).
In her lecture, titled “THE POLITICAL ROLE
OF MUSEUMS: On how to make museums serve theconstruction of a better future”, Gonzalez spoke on
how arts and culture can contribute to combat socialand political challenges and how museums can become
spaces to raise awareness about the history of violence inColumbia. Reconciling and remembering its history is
an important step to avoid repeating it.
Memorial Lecture
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AVICOMCAMOC

24 lectures in five sessions, concrete decisions at themeeting of the newly elected board for the next termof office as well as an eventful off-site meeting withexcursion Osaka: This is the track record of AVICOM
in Kyoto.
The first session was dedicated to the topic“AVICOM-Change of Duties in a World of Changing
Communication”, by Michael H. Faber (Germany) andIldikó Szabòne Fejes (Hungary), where they discussed
the future goals and tasks of the IC. Janós Tari (Hungary)presented media developments during the history of
AVICOM “f@imp” festival.
In the two following sessions, media innovations in
the areas of documentation, restoration/recontruction,and communication with the public were presented.
Subsequent sessions focused on aspects of sustainabilityof digital databases and the ability to use media forbarrier reduction and inclusion.
All sessions were well attended with an average of 40
participants. The lectures will be published in a book on
demand. Information: avicom.mini.icom.museum.
Offsite meeting in Osaka: Around 20 guests visited the
NHK TV Studio and the Sakai City Museum. Donningvirtual reality headsets, they where able to experienceand enter the world of the Emperors’ mausoleums.
Topics for next year: Use of Social Media andApplications, Virtual and Augmented Reality for
Reconstruction and Mediation of Cultural Heritage,
Barrier Reduction and Inclusion by Media, as well as
legal aspects of digitalization.

CAMOC Kyoto 2019
The CAMOC’s 2019 conference theme, “City Museums
as Cultural Hubs — Past, Present and Future”,
resonated with the theme of the General Conference.
The principal sub-themes were those of city museum
trends and definitions, multiculturalism, sustainability,
and responses to urban issues. The CAMOC Kyoto 2019
meeting was conducted in diverse formats — thoseof oral presentations, ignite sessions, discussions andworkshops.
Following a very successful call for papers, we accepted
45 speakers from five continents and welcomed over 100
attendees interested in cities and their museums. The
speakers and attendees not only came from museums
but also from universities, research centres and otherinstitutions linked to their cities. Selected articles basedon the conference presentations will be published in thebook of proceedings, planned for spring 2020.
CAMOC established partnerships and held joint
sessions with ICOM-ASPAC and ICOM-DEMHIST.
With the support of our Japanese institutional andindividual members, we organized an off-site meeting at
the Museum of Kyoto (September 5) and a post-conference
trip to Tokyo (September 8–9).
As a result, we were able to significantly expand our
network and strengthen bonds with our colleagues fromthe Asia-Pacific region.
At our meeting in Kyoto, the new CAMOC board forthe 2019–2022 term was appointed and the committee
rules were updated.

Participants exploring the virtual reality of Emperors’ mausoleums© M.Faber/AVICOM

From one of the CAMOC sessions at ICOM Kyoto 2019.
© Patricia Brignole/CAMOC

The text and photographs are provided by each committee.

CIDOC

Role of Museum Education:
Supporting Self and Society
During the Kyoto conference, the CECA board
considered the notion of a hub as both networks
and cores, leading to a specific theme for the CECA
session: « Roles of museum education: supporting selfand society ». This theme inspired a great number ofpresentation proposals (210) making necessary a strict
assessment and leading to 92 effective presentations (oral61/posters 31) and the need for two parallel sessions whose
languages were English and Japanese.
The CECA conference was attended by 148 delegatesfrom 33 countries (Asia 9, Europe 15, America 6, and Africa
3). A common session was organized between CECA
and ICOFOM around one of its emblematic concept:
Cultural Action.
An off-site meeting was offered in Wakayama andattracted 90 participants. The programme included awelcome ceremony by Wakayama regional officials inwhich CECA was recognized with two of the annual
awards: The Best Practice Award (5 winners) and the Colette
Dufresne Tassé Research Award (1 winner). This ceremony
was followed by a fully interactive presentation in the
different museums with examples of their education
programs.

CIDOC Annual Conference 2019
Kyoto: September 2–5, 2019
CIDOC held its annual conference in Japan withthe theme, Documenting Culture: A Culture ofDocumentation, which reflects museums role as
information hubs and its role in documenting for the
future. The conference took place concurrently with
the ICOM General Conference in Kyoto, Japan. The
conference included 55 presentations by participantsfrom 38 countries.
The CIDOC organised two joint sessions with the
COMCOL and the CIMCIM. COMCOL joint session
comprised of 14 paper presentations with the theme“Traditions, Collections, Management Systems andDigital Tools”. The CIMCIM joint session included five
paper presentations with the theme “Documentation ofMusic and Musical Instruments”.
In addition to the paper presentations, 27 posters wereshowcased during the conference. Participants were
given the difficult task to vote for the Best Poster Award.
Due to the high quality of the poster presentations the
CIDOC decided to award prizes to the top 3 participants.
CIDOC held an off-site meeting at the Otsuka
Museum of Art where participants discussed the theme“Copy, Replicate, and Clone Culture”. The off-site
conference was attended by 83 international museum
professionals from 33 countries.
Overall it was a successful conference with an averageof 85 participants per day. We would like to give a
special thanks to all CIDOC members and to the localorganisers for creating an environment in which valuableideas could be exchanged.

International Committee Sessions

CECA

At Sistine Hall, Otsuka Museum of Art.

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CIMCIM

CIMUSETCIMCIM Summary of the 2019 conference— Kyoto, 1–6 September 2019
CIMCIM held a very successful meeting in Kyoto aspart of the 25th ICOM General Conference with acomprehensive programme that included ten paper
sessions, music performances, visits to makers’
workshops, visits to museums in Kyoto and Osaka, anda post-conference trip to Hamamatsu. The programme
was organised and coordinated by Kazuhiko Shima of
the Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments, andthe paper committee included Gabriele Rossi Rognoni,
Christina Linsenmeyer and Jen Schnitker.
Thirty-three papers were presented by delegates from19 countries and focused on the theme ‘Music, Museums
and Education’. Two joint sessions were organised incollaboration with the CIDOC and the ICME. The
session with the CIDOC focused on the documentationof music collections and the ICME session focused on
the role of music in ethnologic museums. The latter
was hosted in Osaka by MINPAKU — The National
Museum of Ethnology and included a fascinating
program of behind-the-scene visits to the museum
storages and permanent and temporary displays.
The current state of traditional musical instrument
making in Japan was explored through a series of visits,
including the Tobaya Silk String factory in Kyoto. Thisfactory has been producing musical instruments sincethe 17 th century. A post-conference trip to Hamamatsu
was also arranged, with special visits to the Yamaha and
Kawai musical instrument factories.
In order to encourage participation of young colleagues
and to include those coming from the widest numberof countries, the CIMCIM made EUR10,000 in travel
grants available. This resulted in a particularly diverse
and rich programme with the attendance of several
members that have been previously unable to attend theannual conference. These grants were in addition to the
grants provided by ICOM to CIMCIM delegates.

CIMUSET 47th Annual Conference, Kyoto 2 nd–4 thSeptember 2019.
Within the ICOM’s general conference theme “Museums
as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition”, theInternational Committee for Museums and Collectionsof Science Technology established its own program forthe triennial, in cooperation with the National Museumof Nature and Science, Tokyo CIMUSET 47 th conferencein Kyoto debated around a topical theme which concerns
all technical scientific museums and science centres in
the world “Traditions for a Sustainable Future”, How canscience and technology museums advance ecological,
economic, cultural and social sustainability? What issustainable scientific and technical heritage? How canscience and technology museums be spaces for change?
What is the role of traditional know how and techniquesin the future?
It was noted that this topic stimulated a particularinterest among ICOM Kyoto 2019 participants, during
our 6 sessions we had 22 presentations with more than
400 participants.
CIMUSET Off-site Meeting 5th September 2019
Our participants also spent time, during our off-site
meeting in the Nagoya region, the third most populous
urban area in Japan, with many museums with traditional
handicrafts, industrial high tech and nature, and science
museums.
CIMUSET participants benefited from wonderful
guided tours at the Toyota Commemorative Museum of
Industry and Technology and at the Nagoya City Science
Museum.
CIMUSET 2020 Conference:
The next conference (our 48 th) will be at the IranianNational Museum of Science and Technology in Teheran,from the 26 th–30 th of October 2020.
Theme: “Museums’ Environmental Concerns, New
Insights”.
Conference web site, call for paper and registration
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COMCOLThe CIPEG Annual Meeting in Kyoto met under thetheme “The Future of Traditions: Paving the Way for
Egyptian Collections Tomorrow”. It was a great successwith more than 100 participants from many corners of
the world including Canada, Egypt, Denmark, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, UK,
United Arab Emirates and USA.
Papers were limited to 10 minutes in order to present
a diverse programme and allow as many speakers as
possible to take the floor. This created an intense andrich exchange with 26 papers and a keynote lecture.
One day was dedicated to a joint meeting of the CIPEG
and the COMCOL with the theme “Museums as Hubsfor Collecting: The Future of Collecting Traditions”.
Both ICs benefitted greatly from this collaboration
with fruitful discussions. On the Off-Site Meeting day
CIPEG went to the MIHO Museum, Koka, with 50 eager
members, as it is not easily accessible. Afterwards wevisited the Egyptian Collection of the Kyoto University
where objects were kindly brought forward for close-up
viewing and discussion.
The Kyoto meeting was followed by a post-conference
symposium in Tokyo on the 10 th of September with thetheme “Egyptological Research in Museums and Beyond”
that allowed CIPEG and our Japanese colleagues toengage even further in museum Egyptology. It included
visits to the Egyptian Collection at Tokyo National
Museum and the Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo.

During the 25th General Conference of ICOM in Kyoto,
COMCOL held its own annual conference with thetheme Museums as Hubs of Contemporary Collecting:
The Future of Collecting and its Traditions. In a varied
programme compiled together with different partners
we looked at and exchanged experiences aroundquestions like: What will the future of collecting look
like in a globalized world? How to engage with nearby
communities that demand involvement or those that are
further away in time and distance? How can we share ourcollections in the future? What new collecting practices
will evolve?
We started our program with a pre-conference inNara. Three days in which we visited temples, sites andmuseums in Nara We started our 3 day programme witha pre-conference in Nara where we visited temples,sites and museums. We also had keynote speeches
by Noboyuki Matsumoto, Director of Nara National
Museum, on the development and collection of the
Nara National Museum. Danielle Kuijten, Co-Curator
Imagine IC & Vice-president COMCOL, spoke on thechallenges of contemporary collecting.
In Kyoto we proceeded our program on September
2 with a Keynote from Leontine Meijer-van Mensch,
director ethnographic collections of Staatlichen
Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Followed by a diverse
selection of presentations on contemporary collecting
practices. On September 3rd we had a joint meeting
together with the International Committee for
Egyptology (CIPEG) and on September 4th we partnered
up with the International Committee for Documentation(CIDOC). Our program ended with an off-site visit to
MIHO and MoMAK. We had an inspirational week with36 presentations with speakers and participants from allcontinents.

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COSTUME

DEMHIST

Costume as a Cultural Hub: The Future of Tradition
Our Japanese colleagues planned an extraordinary
meeting with many opportunities for cultural exchange.
Thirty speakers presented. Eighty-three people
registered for one or more of the planned events.
Members included seven from Asia, 31 from Europe,
13 from North America, two from South America, twofrom Australia, and one electronically from Iran. There
were eleven accompanying persons. Fifteen Japanesecolleagues were guests. Other ICOM members joined
our Monday session which included the Annual Meeting;the introduction of the new Board of Officers; shortreports introducing new and existing collections andcultural identity through costume; and longer reports oncollections, projects and exhibitions. Tuesday’s sessions
were at the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto
so that Japanese colleagues who were not members of
ICOM could participate. Tuesday’s papers reported
on Japanese collections, “The West Looking East,” and“Traditional, Contemporary and Theatrical Dress.” Thejoint meeting with ICOMAM on Wednesday included
papers that clearly demonstrated relationships between
the fields of interest to both committees. Fifty-six people
attended the Thursday off-site meeting held at the Kyoto
Costume Institute, and at Chiso Co. Ltd. to observe thetraditional kimono decorating techniques of painting
and embroidery. Friday, forty-seven people visited Lake
Biwa, the Konku indigo dyeing studio and the Azai
Noh Costume Museum. Eighteen people joined a postconference tour to Tokyo.

DEMHIST optional pre-conference tour
House Visits
1st September
Two houses influenced by Western early 20th century
architecture in the Oyamazaki area: The Chochikukyo House;
The Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa. The Japanese tradition style
House of Sugimoto, in Karasuma, Kyoto built in 1743 by aJapanese kimono fabric merchant. 30 participants (maximum
participation).
DEMHIST Session 1 (Paper presentations)
Preserving the past creating the future
2nd September
Five speakers discussing changing narratives in the historicalhouse museum. 48 participants.
DEMHIST Session 2 (Lightning talks)Museums as cultural hubs: the future of tradition in a local
context
2nd September
Six speakers highlighted how museums are hubs, using
networking; collaborative partnerships; and links between
museum objects and modern life. 53 participants.
DEMHIST – CAMOC joint session
City and House Museums in the context of revisingmuseum definition
3rd September
Ten papers explored the way that museums are evolving frombeing collections based to focusing on community engagement.
80 participants.
Multi-Party session with DEMHIST, ICOM-Netherlands,
ICOM-Japan and EXARC“Large Impact by Joining Forces”
4th September
Using Dejima city-island as both historical and contemporarycase study, four speakers focused on historical Dutch-Japanese
ties to discuss how museums can function as hubs. 74
participants.
DEMHIST – ICAMT joint session at Nijo-jo Castle
Modern solutions for traditional buildings
5th September, morning
Three presentations on technical aspects of building andcollections conservation. Tours of: The Ninomaru Goten
Palace; the Painting Gallery; and the Painting Panels Storage
area to see the movable system between storage and gallery. 86
participants.
DEMHIST Off-site visits
5th September, afternoon
The Taisho period Old Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa houseand gardens; the modern Komai Residence and Kita Residence;and the Murin-an Gardens. 50 Participants.

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ICAMT

Glass Museums as Cultural Hubs
The ICOM Glass Meeting at the Kyoto General
Conference 2019 was organised by committee member
Ruriko Tsuchida of the Suntory Museum of Tokyo.
The Glass session was held on Monday, September 2 nd
with presentations on the themes: “Glass Museums as
Cultural Hubs” and “Updates on Glass.” Twelve speakers
gave papers on diverse topics, ranging from the formingof glass collections in museums to the representationof glass objects in painted images. On Wednesday,
September 4 th the Glass Committee organized a joint
session with ICDAD and ICFA where seventeen papers,
including four by Glass members, explored the complex
and multifaceted relationship and cross-cultural
influences between the arts from the East and West.

The theme of ICAMT meetings in Kyoto was “Museums
as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition”. Presentations
from 28 speakers from Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark,France, Georgia, Greece, Germany, India, Italy, Japan,
The Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, United
Kingdom and USA were included in ICAMT program.
ICAMT’s first day started with the report of last
6 years work of the Committee, presented by Chair
and Co-chair of IC. The keynote was about JapaneseMuseum Architecture. The rest of the presentations
covered various topics from the planned opening in 2024of the Grand Palais in Paris, to the - transformationsof Pinacoteca Station in Brazil-- from lighting for
temporary exhibitions to interdisciplinary Community
Programs etc. On September 3, ICAMT had joint
session with ICOM-CC and ICMS. The theme wascollection storages. After three keynotes, there were
presentations about new and redesigned storages fromthe Netherlands, India, Denmark, Brazil... Presentations
about the influence of temperature and moisture on
storage spaces and some new storage facilities also weretopics of day 3. The keynote of day 4 was the ICAMT
workshop, held in Milan in 2019.
The off-site meeting of ICAMT was together
with DEMHIST. Around 50 participants listen topresentations about exhibition designing and visited
museums on site.

Off-site meetings:
MIHO Museum, Toyama and Kanazawa
On Tuesday, September 3 rd the Glass Committee
travelled to MIHO Museum. The museum had asmall group of Japanese glass from the Edo period on
exhibition. On Thursday and Friday, the 5 th and the 6 th,
Glass organized a two-day excursion to Toyama, known
as the “Glass Art City,” and Kanazawa 1.
40 participants from 13 different countries
The outstanding programme and the opportunity tointeract with our Japanese and Asian colleagues madethe conference extremely successful. Forty participants

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GLASS(glass museum directors and curators, glass conservators, glass artists,archaeologists, professors of fine arts...) attended the meeting.
Attendees travelled from 13 different countries, including
the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Netherland, Portugal, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Spain, Taiwan (R.O.C.), and USA.
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The two-day excursion to Toyama and Kanazawa was possible because of the generous
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ICDAD

ICEE

ICDAD Individual Sessions, 2–3 September, andJoint Sessions with ICFA and GLASS, 4 September
ICDAD’s 2019 annual meeting, titled “The Future of
Tradition in the Arts, East and West,” focused on Asian
art-related themes. Three days of lively sessions took
place in front of a packed audience. Speakers from 20
countries or territories presented on such topics as
cross-cultural influences; Japonisme and Chinoiserie;
Asian or Asian-influenced ceramics, lacquers, textiles,
and furniture; and the presentation of Asian art inWestern museums. A major art world discovery waspremiered at ICDAD by Tetsuro Degawa, director of
the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka. The Japanesepublic broadcaster NHK came to ICDAD to film his
first ever public presentation of the discovery of a Songdynasty black glazed teabowl with iridescent markings(yohen tenmoku) — only the fourth of its kind in the world.
At the General Assembly, Secretary Maria José Tavares
announced the 2020 annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal
and upcoming board elections, where the chair Helena
Koenigsmarkova has to be replaced, because she served
already two times.

2019 ICOM ICEE Annual Conference
Summary of Activities
The ICEE annual conference was held September 1–5,
2019, in Kyoto, Japan, as part of the 24 th ICOM General
Conference. The theme of this year’s ICEE conference“Building Resilience and Reinforcing Relevance in
Exhibition Exchange”, built on the theme of the ICOMGeneral Conference “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The
Future of Tradition” through the lens of exhibitions.
The conference examined the powerful ways in which
exhibition exchange contributes to the role of museums
as cultural hubs by helping museums build theirresilience and reinforce their relevance in an increasinglycompetitive cultural marketplace.
The schedule included five days of keynote speeches,
panel sessions, off-site visits, social events, andnetworking opportunities. Additional activities included
a Kyoto walking city tour, and a special program andreception in collaboration with the Kyoto National
Museum. 131 professionals from 39 countries attended
the ICEE conference. The programme featured an
impressive diversity of speakers from 23 countries
highlighting best practices and challenges faced bymuseum and exhibition professionals worldwide.
ICEE provided a young professional travel grant
to Norhan Hassan Salem, Associated Registrar at theEgyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. A second travel grant
was provided to Dr Alexander Kellner, Director of the
National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This support
allowed Dr Kellner to deliver a keynote presentation andincrease awareness about the museum’s recovery andfundraising efforts.

Off-site Visits on the 5 th of September
43 ICDAD members and volunteers spent a day
immersed in 19th-21st century decorative arts and living
traditions of Kyoto. We first visited the Kawashima
Textile Museum and Company, the Shokodo carpenters,
and saw demonstrations of 40 different Kyoto traditional
craft industries. After a tofu lunch near Nanzenji, weviewed superb Meiji crafts at the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka
Museum, visited the traditional Kyoto home of Mingei
potter Kawai Kanjiro, browsed the Kyoto Ceramic Art
Association, and relaxed at a reception in the Kiyomizu
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ICLCM

ICFA International Committee for Museums andCollections of Fine Arts
Christoph Lind, chair
Theme: “Western Art in Asian Museums, Asian Art inWestern Museums”
The Kyoto General Conference 2019 created an ideal
platform for ICFA to continue its transition towards amore global outreach and the more effective inclusion ofFine Arts of all continents into the Committees activities.
Kyoto offered a base for integration, particularly for
the Japanese, Chinese and Korean Fine Arts. Their
particularities in presentation and display as well as
their resp. audience was a focus of our meeting. It was apleasure to meet many of our Asian ICFA members, whotook part at the discussions and therewith contributed
much to the development of ICFA as a forum for mutual
learning and exchange for Museums and Collectionsof Fine Arts. Consequently, our first session’s (2nd of
September) title “Western Art in Asian Museums, Asian
Art in Western Museums” was chosen in order to givea wider reception to Fine Arts outside the related area
and audience. A perfectly balanced Western and Asiangroup of lecturers created a maximum point of mutualinterest. The second session was successfully held in
co-operation with ICDAD and GLASS and discussed
the presentation, storage, and handling of Western Art
in Asia and Asian Art in Western collections. A visit
to the National Museum of Art, Osaka and the Osaka
Municipal Museum of Art were appreciated points ofinterest in learning about our conference theme in theway it is handled in Japanese Museums.

We had a highly successful Annual Conference inKyoto, the theme was similar to the main subject of
the General Conference — “Literary and Composers’
Museums as Cultural Hubs”. We spoke particularly
about the Writers’ and Composers’ museums ascultural centres accumulating the museum experiencein various branches of knowledge and various aspectsof the museum work. There were four sessions on 2–3
September: Sessions 1–2 “Sustainable cultural activity ofliterary and composers’ museums”, Sessions 3–4 “Newinterpretations of literary and composers’ museums”.
The Conference was well attended and we had ourGeneral meeting and we were able to elect the chair andthe Board members.
Our Japanese colleagues were very helpful inorganising our conference sessions and very hospitable,
and we would like to express our special profoundgratitude to Dr Shigemi Nakagawa, Rika Mitani andtheir assistants. Our off-site meeting was very interesting
and really exciting and took place in the museums of Uji,
where we listened to the most interesting and conceptual
lecture by a local professor about ancient Japanese
Literature. That was really a very enriching cultural andacademic event! We also visited other museums of thearea and experienced the Japanese tea ceremony! Our
Annual Conference in Kyoto became an unforgettable
event and a great experience.

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ICMAH

ICME

Reconsidering Museums vs Contemporary
Archaeology
The International Committee for Museums andCollections of Archaeology and History celebrated 70
years with its 42nd Annual Conference in Kyoto 2019. In
parallel with the main theme of “Museums as Cultural
Hubs; The future of Tradition” ICMAH explored the
sub themes of archaeology and history museums aroundthe world during 4 sessions between the 2 nd and 4 th of
September. 36 speakers presented their papers under;“Archaeology, Collections and Research”, “The exhibitions
matter”, “The mediation options” and “Discussions about
the concept of cultural hubs in archaeology horizons”.
The sessions hosted more than 50 persons every day
and actual discussions on the themes run around therelation of archaeology, history and museums. This year’s
annual conference hosted five speakers from Africa, 10
speakers from Europe, one speaker from North America
and thanks to the location of the conference 20 speakers
from Asia. Also counting all the participants, ICMAH
developed many new relationships and gained contacts
all over Asia.
ICMAH’s off-site meeting was a one day visit to
Osaka with 35 participants and was hosted by the Osaka
Museum of History and Osaka Castle and Museum. It wasa memorable day to explore Osaka’s history throughout
its museums and the conversations between Japanesemuseum professionals and worldwide participants.

ICME approached the 25th General Conference of
ICOM with the sub-theme “Diversity & Universality”.
The programme included: keynote speeches, papers,
PechaKucha sessions, panels and an off-site meeting at
the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka.
Overall ICME pondered the myriad of ways museums
might work to care for the world.
Topics discussed included: Decolonizing Museums to
Promote Citizenship and Social Cohesion; Collaboration
to Safeguard Indigenous Knowledge; Design andLearning Conversations; Memory, Affect and Belonging;
Exploring Cultural and Social Identities; PechaKuchas;
Keynotes and Panel: Thinking, Designing and Working
Beyond Diversity and Universality; Restitution,
Repatriation, Reconciliation and Healing.
Five keynote presentations from: Professor Christina
Kreps (University of Denver), Tim Ventimiglia (Ralph
Appelbaum Associates), Dr Shiro Sasaki (National Ainu Museum),
Professor Kenji Yoshida (Minpaku), and Kazuhiko Shima(CIMCIM) reflected on the ICME theme.
68 participants from 27 countries: Australia 1, Belgium
1, China 3, Costa Rica 1, Croatia 3, Estonia 1, Egypt 1,
France 3, Germany 2, Israel 1, Italy 3, Japan 15, Mexico
1, Mongolia 1, Morocco 2, Netherlands 1, Namibia 1,
Norway 2, Poland 2, Philippines 3, Romania 1, Sweden 1,
Slovenia 1, Taiwan 2, Thailand 2, UK 3, USA 6 attended
the Kyoto events. At the ICME & CIMCIM joint off-site
meeting 135 participants attended (51 ICME, 31 CIMCIM, 37
Minpaku guests and 16 Minpaku staff).

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ICMEMOICMSThe ICMEMO meeting was held between the 1st and the
4 th of September, under the topic “Historical Heritageand Its Relevance Today”. The conference was divided
into three different sessions: “How Museums Say
the Unfathomable: — Voices from Former Colonial
Territories of Imperial Japan” (a joint session with theFederation of International Human Rights Museums), “ThePresence of Absence: The void that evokes loss in spacesof remembrance... How the concept of Mu in Buddhist
philosophy compares or contrasts with the efforts ofremembrance in Memorial Museums”, and “Anne FrankHouse: Building Cultural Bridges — From Amsterdam
to Kyoto”.
The focus was on exploring how historical heritage
influences personal and collective memories, as well asintergenerational transmission of memories, and with aparticular emphasis placed on connections between theeastern and western world.
There were 17 international speakers and 60–80
participants per session between ICOM and non-ICOM
members. The speakers represented countries from allaround the world: Japan, France, Spain, Taiwan, China,
United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic,
Slovenia, The Netherlands, USA, Sweden, Norway, Italy,
Cambodia, and Colombia.
On the 5 th of September, an off-site meeting washeld in Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial
Museum. The meeting was attended by over 200 local
and international participants and joined by ICOM
President Suay Aksoy.

ICMS Board
Just after the official opening of the ICOM conference on
September 2, we elected the new Board. At our BusinessMeeting the newly developed ICMS strategy waspresented and will focus on professional development,
capacity building and (social) media activities.

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Themes
Themes discussed during the ICMS sessions included
ways for security to support, encourage or enablemuseums in tackling prevailing global issues. Anotherwas on cooperating with local communities andstakeholders to nurture traditions and cultural resources
for the benefit of future generations. Another theme wason the museum security professional.
There was an average of 50 participants during the
ICMS sessions, coming from the USA to Singapore. Our
14 speakers were mostly from Europe and Asia.
Joint Session
One of the central topics of the ICOM-CC and ICAMT
joint session was “Storage”. Presenters from each of
the three ICs contributed to the panel discussion andconcluded with an important point: We can makesignificant improvements with minimal financial
investments but with high commitment.
Kobe visit
The off-site meeting between ICOM and ICMS members
took place in Kobe, where we had the opportunity topromote ICMS membership to potential new members.
Later at the Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, our
ICMS Secretary Raymond de Jong gave a presentation
titled Physical Security Information Management
where he talked about threat mitigation by combining
operational measures with engineering. ICMS was very
honored by the attendance of the Governor of Hyogo
Prefecture.
Highlights
Highlights from the ICOM were meeting newmembers, sharing experiences with other International
Committees and planning for professional development.
Other highlights were visiting interesting places in Kyoto
and Kobe.

Photo: Nikko Security

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ICOFOM

ICOM-CC

Our annual symposium
ICOFOM’s symposium concentrated on “The Futureof Tradition in Museology”. In advance, a book of shortpapers under the rubric “Materials for a discussion”
was published and shared online. It contained 36
papers originating worldwide and served as the basis
for ICOFOM’s workshop format that was chosen to
make the discussion more vivid. The symposium was a
mix of plenary sessions with addresses from important
thinkers/practitioners in the field, 6 workshops in which
30 speakers spoke briefly to their published papers, andfollowed by discussions open to all attendees. Throughout
the two days, more than 100 people participated inparallel sessions.

ICOM-CC, the Conservation Committee sessions
ICOM-CC organised three joint sessions in Kyoto with20 speakers coming from South and North America,
Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe resulting in three very
different cross disciplinary sessions.
2 September: joint session between ICOM-CC,
INTERCOM and ICOM SEE. Highlights of the session“How far can we come with traditions?” included
keynote speaker Jesper Stub Johnsen (National Museum of
Denmark) who presented ‘Reinventing museums to shape
the future’. Several other speakers followed and thesession ended with a panel discussion titled ‘Shaping the
Future, Doing More with Less’.
3 September: a joint session between ICOM-CC,
ICAMT and ICMS titled “Storage of CollectionsPrepare for the Future” included presentations onpractices for collection storage; space management andre-grouping of collections, solutions for museums withsmall budgets and few resources, storage security and apanel discussion.
4 September: the joint session with ICOFOM wastitled “What is the essence of Conservation?” discussing
issues as conservation and authenticity, form and matter,conservation practices and conservation decisionmaking. A lively discussion ended the session. Twenty
papers were published prior to the meeting.
The off-site meeting took place at the Nara National
Research Institute. The theme was the conservation of
objects damaged by the March 2011 Tsunami. At the
NNRI, the treatment of many of these artefacts were
described and the group was invited to see the researchand conservation facilities. The tour was fully bookedwith 45 attendees.

Joint meetings
Among many highlights, two joint-sessions with ICOMinternational committees stand apart: meetings withICOM CECA (on cultural action) and with ICOM CC (onessence of conservation, preceded by “Materials for a discussion”).
Throughout the sessions, speakers came from different
continents and participants ranged between 150–170
people at the different locations.
Off-site meeting
The off-site meeting was attended by approximately 70
people at the Doshisha University, where they vigorously
debated the new museum definition, symposium
conclusions, workshop reports, and the Annual General
Meeting and Board elections.

From the joint session between ICAMT and ICMS; Vernon Raplay from
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ICOMON

Authenticity in Cultural Differences:
Concept or Object
On 2 September the committee had its Annual Assembly(total attendants 23) on which the new board for the nextterm was elected. After the assembly, the first 5 speakers
presented their papers. Their country of origin: Sweden,
Spain, Russia, and Korea.
On 3 September (total attendants 28) there were 7 speakers
coming from: Netherlands, Japan, USA, Canada, Estonia
and Iran.
On 4 September, there was an ICOM-Costume
joint session between ICOMAM (4 speakers) andICOM-Costume (6 speakers) with a total of 10 speakers.
ICOMAM-speakers came from the following countries:
Azerbaijan, Sweden, Belgium and Netherlands.
Proceedings of the speakers of all sessions will follow.
On 5 September, an off-site meeting (30 attendants)brought us to a sword making demonstration by the
Gassan Swordsmiths of Nara at the Dainenbutsuiji
Temple in Hirano, Osaka.
In the afternoon there was a visit to the Kyoto
National Museum where we had a meeting with Mr
Toshihiko Suekane, a curator of Japanese arms andarmours collection. He gave a special demonstration
detailing the maintenance and appreciation of Japaneseswords. The curator presented some of the rare artefacts
from the museum’s collection (one on loan) that havebeen designated as a ‘National Treasure’ or ‘Important
Cultural Property’.

The 26 th Annual Meeting of the ICOM International
Committee for Banking and Money Museums was held
as part of the ICOM Annual Meeting from the 3 rd–5 thof September 2019 in Kyoto, Japan. 37 Members from18 countries participated in the meeting, which wasdedicated to the theme of “Numismatic Museums as
Cultural Hubs: Future Perspectives”. ICOMON Chair
Eleni Zapiti opened the annual meeting. Not surprisingly,
many presenters were from Asia, with Japan, Indonesia,
and Pakistan being well represented, followed bymembers from Sweden and the USA. Speakers spoke
about their projects in fields, such as digitization but also
on the various attempts to interpret economic issues anddiversity in money museums. Emily E. Pearce Seigerman(Smithsonian Institution, USA), who was awarded this year’s
ICOMON Young Member’s Grant, gave a presentation
about “The National Numismatic Collection East Asian
Currency Digitization Projects”. A particular highlight
was an ink-rubbing numismatic archiving workshop,
given by Shoji Yoshida, an expert on ancient East Asiancoinage. During the visit to the famous Japan Mint
Museum in Osaka, members of ICOMON were able
to see some of the treasures of this institution. During
the general assembly of ICOMON, the new board andofficers were duly elected.

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ICR
This year’s ICR theme was “Regional museums
encouraging sustainable use of cultural and natural
heritage” and received more than 100 participants
each day. The number of presenters was 79 people(43 presentations) for oral presentations and 33 people(22 presentations) for poster presentations, for a total of
112 people (65 presentations) including co-presenters.
In addition, two people gave keynote speeches. The
regions where the presenters came from were East Asia,
Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Europe, North
America, and Latin America.
On the 5 th of September, ICR conducted an off-site
meeting including a tour of the Hirano ‘Machigurumi’Museum (Hirano Community-wide Museum) in the morningand the International Forum: “Ecomuseums andregional museums” in the afternoon. ICR requested
the cooperation of over 100 local residents. It is no
exaggeration to say that this day was the highlight of
the ICR this year, and it was well received by nearly
150 experts and uncountable local participants. It was a
day when many participants were overwhelmed by thepower of Hirano.
In addition, 10 volunteer English interpreters from
Suita City in Osaka fully supported the pre-conference
programme and off-site meeting. ICOM and ICR postconference tour, where ICR held a keynote and many
interesting presentations were heard.
ICR is expected to further collaborate with groups of
eco-museums and community museums in the future,and it will become an ideal committee for promoting
research and practice on community engagement.

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ICTOP
ICOM-ICTOP (ICOM’s International Committee for the Trainingof Personnel) was established 50 years ago to provide

direction in museum professional training. As part of
the ICOM Kyoto 2019, ICTOP took the opportunity
to reflect on the past, present and future of professional
training by sharing ideas that critically interrogate
foremost the future of museum training. Centralisedaround the main theme of the ICOM Kyoto, Museums
as Cultural Hubs. As we look toward the future, ICTOP’sannual conference considered how to approach thetraining of museum professionals who will work inmuseums while respecting past traditions.
Interest for the theme “ICTOP as a Hub of Museum
Professional Training” has been unprecedented where
less then 50% of promising candidates ended includedin the ICTOP programme, 44 speakers in total comingfrom all six continents. While the first two days discussed
global issues, the third was devoted to the Asia & Pacificregion, all were very well attended. In addition, on thesecond day ICTOP, together with UMAC, structured
a joint session on “Professionalising Museum Work in
Higher Education”. As part of its programme ICTOP
organised two off-site meetings = one focused on Kyoto
museums and training and another, in cooperation with
ICR on eco and regional museums in Osaka prefecture.

Off-site meeting at the Kyoto University of Art and Design.

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MPR

INTERCOM’s joint sessions with ICOM SEE’s and
ICOM CC at ICOM 25th GENERAL CONFERENCE
1st–7th OF AUGUST 2019 took place on the 3th and 4thof September. INTERCOM’s joint session with ICOM
SEE’s and ICOM CC was conducted at ICOM’s 25 th
GENERAL CONFERENCE (August 1 st–7 th, 2019) between
September 3 rd–4 th, 2019. Subsequently, the off-site
meeting took place on the 5th of September at the Kyoto
International Manga Museum.
The joint sessions were based on a selection of 24
abstracts. INTERCOM board members mediatedthe sessions including the Q & A’s. The sessions weredivided into the following themes; “Shaping the Future,
Sustainable Museum Management”, “Managementof Human Rights and Environment”, “Museums in
Cohesion and Museum Impacts”. These themes were
all derived from the overall theme of the ICOM 25 th
Conference: Tradition for the Future: Museums as
Cultural Hubs. Twenty-two different nationalities wererepresented among the speakers and the demographicsof the speakers were reflected among the approximately
three hundred participants taking part in the sessions.
The Off-site meeting took place at the International
Kyoto Manga Museum. The workshop was based onpresentations from museum director Mr Yamamoto,and researcher Mr Ito, both from the Kyoto International
Manga Museum. The fifty participants representing
Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, Europe and the
Middle East explored the museums potential for further
progressive development in light of the overall theme
for the general conference and the proposed new ICOM
museum definition. Ida Lundgaard, Senior Advisor,
Danish Agency for Culture and Palace, facilitated theworkshop.

MPR hosted its conference with the theme of“Transforming Museum Communications in a
Changing World,” during the ICOM 2019 General
Conference in Kyoto. Some twenty papers, which were
submitted for peer review, and were presented under
three sub-themes: “responding to global issues,” “local
communities and museums,” and “redefining the roleof marketing and public relations at museums.” The
presentations have been posted on MPR’s website. Two
keynote speakers were included; Kenneth Weine, from
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,
spoke about his first year of promoting and navigatinga new communications landscape, while Toru Sasaki,from the Hokkaido University, shared Japan’s experience
with museum evaluation. In terms of attendance, there
were approximately seventy participants from fourcontinents: the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe.
MPR organized its off-site meeting at Karakuan, Nishiki
Market, Toji Temple and the Kyoto Railway Museum. Mr
Hideyuki Miura, the Kyoto Railway Museum’s director,
reported on how his museum successfully reaches
potential visitors and maintains repeat visitors. MPR
leaders did a presentation about MPR’s 2020 conferencein Kassel and Berlin, Germany and was followed by alively and participatory discussion with attendees about
the theme “Narratives: Long Story Short.” During theGeneral Conference in Kyoto, new board members were
duly elected and represent the Americas, Africa, Asia
and Europe.

International Committee Sessions

INTERCOM

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International Committee Sessions

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NATHIST

UMAC“Natural History Museums: A Nexus between Nature
and Culture”
The NATHIST conference theme referenced theGeneral Assembly’s theme, “Museums as Cultural Hubs:
The Future of Tradition”, but had a flavor that is uniquely
ours. We addressed big-picture issues like Sustainable
Development Goals of the United Nations Development
Program and specifically what museums were doing
to bridge the Nature-Culture gap. There were talks
on initiatives with museums interactive storytelling,
community engagement, and citizen science. While
the mix of talks presented a wide variety of topics andperspectives, one thing was consistent: the chance to meetwith friends and colleagues, reestablish acquaintances,and learn from one another about international bestpractices in natural history museums.
We had about 35 speakers from all over the world:
Europe, U.S.A and Canada, Asia, Arab and from Japan.
The Off-site meetings took place at the Osaka Museumof Natural History and we are especially grateful to
Director Kiyoshi Kawabata for inviting us.
We had a tour of the museum, a poster session, and thefirst Anthropocene Working Group meeting under the
new leadership of Dr Nicolas Kramar (Director of the ValaisMuseum of Nature in Switzerland). It was a stimulating session,
focusing on the practicalities of researching, displaying,interpreting and collecting the Anthropocene.

The theme of UMAC Kyoto 2019 was “University
Museums and Collections as Cultural Hubs: The Futureof Tradition.” University museums and collections
around the world are “cultural hubs”, have a variety ofdifferent contexts, and carry individual cultural missions.
However, from the presentations at the conference, it
was apparent that they face similar challenges that could
be shared and discussed. The theme explored ‘cultural
mission,’ ‘cultural heritage,’ ‘meaning of culture,’ in thecontext specific to university museums and collections.
We addressed many issues through this lens, such as how
to shape contemporary global culture through university
museums and one of our fundamental concerns, thefuture of university museums. Our program consisted of
15 sessions (3 parallel sessions), in which 56 oral presentations
and 44 poster presentations were made. From our own
survey, there were around 200 participants from 41
countries/regions.
UMAC’s off-site meeting was arranged with thecooperation of the University Museums Association of
Kyoto at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Attracting
100 participants, the morning session’s program wasdevoted to Japanese university museums and was open to
the public. In the afternoon, a bus tour to three different
university museums in Kyoto for UMAC members wasorganised to enhance the exchange of ideas between 50
UMAC members and participants.

New International Committees
museums into national and international disaster risk
reduction frameworks.
The ICOM-International Committee on EthicalDilemmas (ICEthics) was created to be a permanent global
forum open to all museum professionals to reflect, shareand discuss ethical issues such as the handling of artefacts,
presentations, exhibitions, economic questions, etc. On 3
September 2019, ICOM Members interested in ICEthics
took part in the first meeting of the Committee whereby-laws were approved and the following members were
elected: Kathrin Pabst (Chair, Norway), Lidija Nikočević
(Croatia), Andrea Kieskamp (Netherlands), Katrin Hieke(Germany), Lina L.Tahan (UK/Lebanon), Armando Perla(Sweden/Canada), Søren la Cour Jensen (Denmark), Valeria
Pica (Italy) and Lis-Mari Hjortfors (Sweden/Norway). The
Committee will seek to help museums and museums
professionals, as societal actors, to make more informed
choices.

New International Committees

The 25th ICOM General Conference also provided
an opportunity for two newly created international
committees to meet for the first time to discuss strategy
and lay the foundations for their future work. Rules ofprocedure were adopted and a Chair and Board members
were elected.
These two international committees, whose creation
were approved in July 2019 by the ICOM Executive
Board at its 139th session, have received significant
international support. Their mandate is to respond to thepresent and future challenges faced by museums in thefulfilment of their missions.
The ICOM-Disaster Resilient Museums Committee(DRMC) aims at creating a space for ICOM Members toengage in cultural disaster risk management and being aninterdisciplinary platform on emergency preparedness
and disaster response. The first meeting of DRMC
took place on 3 September 2019, during which ICOM
Members adopted the by-laws of the Committee andproceeded to elect Diana Pardue (United States) as Chair
and Brian Daniels (United States), Yuji Kurihara (Japan) and
Ihor Poshyvailo (Ukraine) as Board Members. DRMC
will work to improve disaster planning and integrate

Following these two meetings and thanks to the spiritof cooperation instilled by the 25th ICOM General
Conference, ICOM members expressed their interest in
joining these two committees.

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Social Programmes
Opening Party60

Noh Performances

2 Sep. 18:30 –20:30

3 Sep. / 4 Sep. 19:00 –21:00

More than 2000 people attended at the Opening
Party held on 2 September at the Kyoto International
Conference Center (ICC Kyoto). After opening speeches
from the Mayor of Kyoto City, geishas and maikos
from all across all five Hanamachi districts in Kyoto
performed a traditional dance in the Main Hall to markthe start of the party at 6:30pm. The guests then moved
to the garden where ICOM’s President Aksoy was joinedby the organisers and the Governor and Mayor of Kyoto
and performed Kagami Biraki, a ceremony to open asake barrel with wooden hammers. The ceremony wasfollowed by fireworks that had been specially prepared
to bestow good fortune on the conference.

The organisers worked with the Japan Cultural Expo topresent Kyogen and Noh plays. Both general participants
and the residents of Kyoto enjoyed free admission to anumber of performances. The Kyogen play “Boshibari”
and Noh play “Hagoromo Banshiki” were performed
at Kongo Noh Theatre on 3 September, and the Kyogen
play “Busu” and Noh play “Funabenkei Zengonokae”
at Kyoto Kanze Noh Theater on 4 September. English
explanations were offered for the plays and a subtitling
app was available for some parts of the plays so thatparticipants could understand the details. All events werevery popular with participants exceeding the maximum
capacity applying online for free admission.

Social Event at Nijo-jo Castle

Social Event in Kitayama Area

3 Sep. 19:00 –21:00

4 Sep. 18:00 –21:00

The social event on 3 September was held at Nijo Castle.
More participants than expected lined up in front of thevenue and formed crowds within the castle grounds.
The Ninomaru-goten Palace was opened especially for
conference participants, who were also admitted to thecontemporary art exhibition “Throughout Time: The
Sense of Beauty”, held in the Daidokoro kitchen in the
Palace to commemorate the ICOM Kyoto 2019. The
participants were provided with a packed dinner andhad the opportunity to taste different types of sake sothey could experience Japanese food culture.

The social event on 4 September took place in Kitayama
area, just one subway stop from ICC Kyoto. About
1000 participants enjoyed tours of the greenhouses andexhibitions at the Kyoto Botanical Gardens, as well as abehind the scenes tour of the Kyoto Institute, Library andArchives. Although the organisers were almost forced tocancel the event due to heavy rain in the early evening, therain stopped before the start time, and the event took place
as planned. Snacks were provided at the Botanical Gardens,
Garden of Fine Arts and Inamori Memorial Hall andparticipants enjoyed a stroll in the Kitayama area. A joint
event with PechaKucha Night Kyoto “Communities andMuseums” was also held in the area and younger membersof ICOM gave presentations in front of a large crowd.
Social Programmes
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ICOM x PechaKucha Night Kyoto: Museums and Community
4 Sep. 18:15 –20:40
The ICOM x PechaKucha Night explored the subject“Communities and Museums” following the Pecha­
Kucha’s 20 x 20 formula: presentations of 20 slides, lasting
20 seconds each.
In line with ICOM’s commitments to foster young
professionals’ participation the speakers were all 35
years of age or under. They were encouraged to tellpersonal stories about the ways in which communities
and museums can promote sustainable development
and build better futures. Here is the resume of the theme“Communities and Museums”:“Museums are reinventing themselves to become

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more interactive, audience focused, and community
oriented. They have become cultural hubs functioning
as platforms where creativity combines with knowledge
and where communities can co-create, share andinteract. As trustworthy institutions, museums have thepower to foster dialogue and mutual understanding in avariety of contexts, contributing to peace, cohesion andresilience within and between communities. As potential
agents of social change, museums offer activities whichempower communities and support them in tackling
contemporary challenges.”Social Event in Okazaki Area

Closing Party

5 Sep. 19:00 –21:00

7 Sep. 19:00 –21:00

On 5 September, the organisers held a social event in the
Okazaki area where a wide range of cultural facilities
are located, and over 1700 participants attended.
Participants enjoyed a snack and the evening opening of
the exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto. They were then taken to the Heian Jingu Shrine
where there was a special late-night opening of thegardens and a performance of Gagaku was given. They
were pleasantly surprised to be presented with a saketaster set in the basement of Miyako Messe and thentaken on a special night adventure at the zoo. Despite thedestinations being scattered throughout a large area, thetour proceeded smoothly thanks to the guidance of our
local volunteers.

The closing party held on 7 September in the gardenof the Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC
Kyoto) was attended by 1372 people. A monitor was set
up especially for the event, which was used to stream
the Closing Ceremony held inside the building. The
guests enjoyed snacks and beverages while enjoying
an art installation of Japanese garden lanterns createdby Takaaki Taketa, and a collaborative performance byguitar duo band Jusqu’à Grand-Père and a cellist. Guests
took advantage of free admission to “Temple and Shrine
Treasures”, a feature exhibition commemorating ICOM
Kyoto 2019, all of which helped the participants enjoy
their last day in Kyoto.

Social Programmes
63Museum Fair and Expo Forum
Over three days from 2 to 4 September, exhibitions were held in three venues including the Event Hall, New Hall andAnnex Hall of ICC Kyoto. At the Event Hall where many of the sponsors presented their exhibits, sessions organisedby sponsors also took place. At the Annex Hall, the networking lounge provided a space for the participants to relax
whilst also serving as a venue for various workshops. A photo booth was also set up where participants could have their
pictures taken by a photographer and printed on the spot.

Museum Fair
In total, 147 businesses and groups had exhibition booths, with the number of exhibitors reaching 1303. As participants
were advised to pick up their lunch box at a dedicated area within the fair venue, the fair had many visitors and theorganisers received a great deal of positive feedback from exhibiting companies, that were pleased to see many overseas
visitors. In the Event Hall, exhibits by sponsor companies consisting mainly of platinum sponsors were offered. The
New Hall mainly accommodated the exhibits of overseas businesses and museums, while the Annex Hall was used forthe exhibits by Japanese museums and cultural organisations. By placing lunch-box collection and rest areas within
the fair venue, many of the participants were encouraged to visit and spend time there, creating a busy atmosphere.

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Sponsor Sessions
Over a period between 2 and 4 September, various business consisting mainly of sponsor companies organised andprovided their own sessions on a stage set up in the Event Hall. At the exhibition Opening Ceremony held on 2
September, the ICOM President and ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee President gave speeches, followed by aperformance by the Kyoto University Iaido Club.
At the session organised by the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Yomiuri Shimbun’s representative, Commissioner of the
Agency for Cultural Affairs Ryohei Miyata and Kyoto National Museum Director Johei Sasaki engaged in a stimulating
discussion. Other sessions included a demonstration of seismic isolation devices by THK, a session on the digitalisationof cultural assets by Toppan Printing and many other sessions by Platinum sponsors.

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

Networking Lounge
A networking lounge was set up in the Annex Hall to allow conference participants to refresh and socialise. At thelounge, panels showing the history of Japanese museums and charts displaying a comprehensive museum survey
were displayed to share the current situation for Japanese museums. In the event space installed within the lounge,
workshops on tea meditation and bamboo craft, as well as sponsor-organised workshops on furoshiki (Japanese wrapping
cloth) and collotype hand-printing, were offered. This lounge was equipped with a relaxing tatami space and smartphonechargers. Many participants made use of them when they visited there during lunch breaks.

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Excursions
On 6 September, 51 tours were specially arranged to give ICOM Kyoto 2019 participants hands-on learning experiences
and a rare opportunity for exclusive access to some of Japan’s great historic treasures. More than 1,300 participants
explored the city and the prefecture of Kyoto as well as the greater Kansai region. As many tours filled up quickly, it was
decided to arrange an additional ten courses. Some courses were designed to be accessible to people with disabilities.
Participants had excellent opportunities for networking and to experience all that Kyoto and its surrounding area haveto offer.

Fukui

Kyoto
Kyoto city

Hyogo

Shiga

Osaka
Nara
Wakayama

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Post-Conference Tours
TohokuThe post-conference event in Tokyo was chiefly organised
by CAMOC Japanese members and focused on rethinking
the relationship between the city and the city museum.
A total of 40 individuals took part in the event. On 8
September, the participants were divided into two groups,
with one visiting destinations in eastern areas such as
the Edo-Tokyo Museum, Sensoji (Asakusa Kannon Temple)
and Ueno Park, and the other exploring the westernareas including Tamarokuto Science Center, Tamagawa
Aqueduct, the source of the Tama River, and Kodairashi Local Sewage Museum. In the evening, the twogroups joined at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum toexchange opinions. On the second day, everybody visitedthe areas around Ueno, and the day culminated in a visit
to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

For the Post-Conference Tour to Tohoku Region
organised by ICOM-CC, 19 participants visited threeprefectures in Tohoku from 8-11 September 2019 toobserve the evacuation and conservation efforts being
carried out by museums damaged in the Great East
Japan Earthquake of 2011. The tour was welcomed by
the Fukushima Cultural Property Centre, the Tohoku
History Museum, the Rias Ark Museum of Art, the
Rikuzentakata City Museum and the Iwate Prefectural
Museum. Participants listened intently to the detailed
explanations from the staff at each museum. The tour
was fruitful, with tour members, many themselves
involved in conservation and restoration, being seen attimes to share their expertise with museum staff.

Hokkaido

Okinawa

The Post Conference Tour in Hokkaido was held on 8–10
September. Around 50 experts from museums around theworld were guided through Date City and Toyako Town,
as well as the Jomon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaido.
These places are aiming to become designated as World
Heritage Sites. The tour also included a symposium
focused on how local museums work for local people, as
well as a tour to the National Ainu Museum construction
site. There was a thorough exchange with museum
experts in Hokkaido, at the reception that took place
after the symposium. The different perspectives thatwere shared appeared to be appreciated by all.

Organised by the Cabinet Office of the government ofJapan, this three-day post-conference tour explored
two themes: the passing down of unique naturalenvironments and cultures; and the preservation ofhistory. 25 museum professionals from all over the world
explored Okinawa’s unique cultural heritage and natural
diversity while visiting war memorials, Ocean Expo Park,and UNESCO World Heritage sites over three days. The
trip was also a memorable opportunity for participants
to have dialogues with a survivor of the Tsushima-Maru,
museum professionals from the Okinawa Prefectural
Museum, and local government officials.

Post-Conference Tours

Tokyo

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Manga: A Day at ICOM Kyoto 2019
Published in “Bunkaru”, the newsletter of the Agency for Cultured Affairs“Special Manga Report of 4 September”
Englishhttps://www.bunka.go.jp/prmagazine/english/publications/naname/naname_003.html

Japanesehttps://www.bunka.go.jp/prmagazine/rensai/naname/naname_054.html

68Organisation

Road to ICOM Kyoto 2019
2012

1 Aug

2013

12 – 15 Aug

ICOM Japan runs a booth at ICOM Rio 2013

1 Dec

Preparatory Committee for ICOM General Conference

Research Committee for ICOM General Conference Bid
Campaign is formed

Bid Campaign is formed2014

1 – 31 Dec

Research trips to ICOM and past host cities

27 MarICOM Japan approves to run for ICOM Kyoto 2019

1 Oct

“Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition” waschosen as the theme

2015

26 NovICOM Japan submits its Letter of Intent to ICOM

29 JanICOM Kyoto 2019 logo for bidding activities was
selected

30 JanICOM Japan submits The Bidding Paper to ICOM

21 AprOn-site inspection by ICOM

17 MayIMD Symposium: Toward the ICOM General
Conference in Kyoto (Kyoto)

3 Jun

ICOM selects Kyoto as the host city for the 25th
General Conference

2016

1 Apr

ICOM Japan appoints contact persons in Japan toassist each International Committee to organise theconference

22 MayIMD Symposium: Museums and Cultural Landscapes(Tokyo)

9 Jun

ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee (OC) is
formed

4 – 6 JulICOM Japan runs a booth at ICOM Milano 2016

9 Jul

ICOM flag handed over at Closing Ceremony in
Milan

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31 JanICOM Kyoto 2019 Promotion Committee is formed

1 Apr

ICOM Kyoto 2019 Office is established

3 Apr

Official Facebook page is launched

18 AprICOM Kyoto 2019 Steering Committee is formed

21 MayIMD Symposium: Museums and Contested Histories:

Road to ICOM Kyoto 20192017

Saying the Unspeakable in Museums (Kyoto)

18 – 22 May

On-site inspection and meetings with ICOM/ICOM selects Congrès Inc. as the PCO

7 – 9 Jun

Progress reports by the OC at General Assembly andAdvisory Council Meeting (Paris)

26 – 31 Aug

Meetings with the OC and Contact Persons forInternational Committees

1 – 29 Sep

Survey of International Committees’ conferenceplans

14 Sep

Official website is launched

18 SepWorkshop: Recommendation on the Protection andPromotion of Museums and Collections, their Diversity
and their Role in Society (Kyoto)

22 SepWorkshop: London 2012 – Culture and Museums(Kyoto)23 Sep

Lecture: Museums in the UK – Recent Trends (Kyoto)

18 OctMeeting with ICOM and the OC (Paris)

17 NovICOM Museum Café (Tokyo)

8 Dec

Progress report by the OC at the Executive Board
Meeting (Paris)

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Road to ICOM Kyoto 20192018

16 FebSponsor application opens

12 – 13 Apr

On-site inspection and meetings with ICOM

19 MayIMD Symposium: Hyperconnected museums:
New approaches, new publics (Osaka)

5 Jun

Progress reports by the OC at General Assembly andAdvisory Council Meeting (Paris)

22 Jun

Exhibitor application opens

5 – 27 Jul

Survey of International Committees’ conference plans		 Aug30
4 Sep

Meetings with the OC and Contact Persons for

1 Sep

Official Instagram account is launched

30 SepICOM Maizuru Meeting 2018

1 Oct

On-site inspection and meetings with ICOM, the OC andInternational Committees

representatives of International Committees

2 Oct

Meetings with ICOM and the OC (Kyoto)

16 OctRegistration for student volunteers starts

8 – 30 Nov

Survey of International Committees’ conferenceplans

28 NovICOM Forum: New Approaches for Museums
in a Changing World (Tokyo)

1 – 2 Dec

ICOM-ASPAC Kyushu, Japan Conference 201810 DecProgress reports by the OC at the Executive Board
Meeting (Skype)

16 Dec72

Workshop: Museums Challenges & Potentials 1 (Kyoto)7 JanConference registration opens

16 JanRegistration for local community volunteers starts

2 Feb

Workshop: Museums Challenges & Potentials 2

Road to ICOM Kyoto 20192019

(Kyoto)18 MarMeeting with ICOM and the OC (Kyoto)

5 – 21 Apr

Survey of International Committees’ conference plans

26 MayIMD Symposium: Museums as Cultural Hubs:
The Future of Tradition (Kyoto)

11 – 12 Jun

Meetings with ICOM and the OC (Paris)

22 JulProgress report at the Executive Board Meeting (Skype)

4 Aug
7 Aug

Briefing with Contact Persons for ICs

1 – 7 Sep

ICOM Kyoto 201910 DecPost-conference report by the OC at
Executive Board Meeting (Skype)2020

13 JanConference report and workshop: Creating New Forms of Museums (Kyoto)

11 / 23 Feb

ICOM Kyoto 2019 Memorial Symposium: The Future of Museums in Japan (Kyoto / Tokyo)

73Organisers
OrganisersInternational Council of Museums

ICOM JapanICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee

Japanese Association of Museums

Co-Organiser

Conference Secretariat
Congrès Inc.

Science Council of Japan

Partners

Kyoto Prefecture

City of Kyoto

Agency for Cultural Affairs,
Government of Japan

Independent Administrative Institution
National Institutes for Cultural Heritage

Independent Administrative Institution
National Museum of Art

The Getty Foundation

Promotion Committee for ICOM Kyoto 201974

Organisers

Organisational Chart

Organisers

Partners

Kyoto PrefectureInternational
Council of Museums

ICOM JapanICOM Kyoto 2019
Organising Committee

Japanese Associationof Museums

Co-Organiser

City of Kyoto

Agency for Cultural Affairs,
Government of Japan

Science Council of Japan
Independent Administrative Institution
National Institutes for Cultural Heritage

Conference
Secretariat

Congrès Inc.

・Overall Conference

Independent Administrative Institution
National Museum of Art

Management

The Getty Foundation

K.I.T. Group GmbH・General registration system construction
・Registration & Settlement processing
・Inquiry handling (Overseas)

Kinki Nippon Tourist
Co., Ltd. (KNT)

Promotion Committee for
ICOM Kyoto 2019

・Accommodation
・Excursion

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Host City and Venues
Host City
Kyoto
With a history spanning over 1200 years, the city of
Kyoto has long served as Japan’s cultural epicentre.
Every year it welcomes more than 50 million domestic
and foreign visitors who come to see its diverse historicscenery, including shrines, temples, gardens, traditional
wooden houses and 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The city has more than 200 museums that compose
the Kyoto Museum Association; through which they
coordinate efforts. The technologies cultivated throughits handicrafts over the centuries have resulted in Kyoto
becoming a city of science and manufacturing where
many universities and global companies gather together.
It also led other Japanese cities in the 2019 National
Sustainable Development Goals Ranking. With thesecharacteristics Kyoto embodies the theme of this year’s
ICOM Kyoto 2019, “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The
Future of Tradition”.

Venues76

Kyoto International Conference Center

Inamori Memorial Hall
Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives

The Kyoto International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto),
the main venue for the ICOM Kyoto 2019, is locatedin northern Kyoto and is Japan’s first international
conference centre. The ICC Kyoto has a Japanese garden,
more than 70 meeting rooms, large halls and numerous
other facilities. Ease of accessibility from Kyoto Station
and an environment that feels in harmony with nature
has made it the stage for many important gatherings,
including the 1997 Convention on Climate Change(COP3), where the Kyoto Protocol was signed. The mainand satellite venues at ICOM Kyoto 2019 welcomed a
total of 4,590 attendees.

In order to hold several events concurrently during
ICOM Kyoto 2019, the Inamori Memorial Hall and the
Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives (Rekisaikan) wereused as satellite venues thanks to the cooperation of
Kyoto Prefecture, the Kyoto Prefectural University of
Medicine, the Kyoto Prefectural University and the Kyoto
Institute of Technology. Presentations and social eventswere held at the Rekisaikan, while committee conferences
and other events were held at the Inamori Memorial
Hall. Transportation of attendees between the main andsatellite venues was handled by operating shuttle buses
and handing out free city bus and subway passes.

Grants

A total of 338 (a cumulative total of 849 during conference period)
volunteer members worked with us. Their hospitality
was viewed favourably in the survey, thanks to the two
training sessions held prior to the conference.
At ICOM Kyoto 2019, the organisers decided toengage young volunteers in order to provide themwith opportunities to obtain the first-hand experienceand develop future talent in the museum industry. The
Organising Committee, therefore, started recruiting
volunteers two years prior to the conference in 2017by setting up a working group consisting mainly of
university faculty specialising in museum management
and curatorship. Then in spring 2018, students studying
curatorship were invited to sign up for early registration,prior to the official recruitment process which started in
the summer of 2018.
The student volunteers were divided into three groups,
with one tasked with language assistance, one assigned
to sessions and one accompanying the participants for
excursions as tour guides. The Organising Committee
also recruited local resident volunteers to show theparticipants around during social events, as well as
technical volunteers to deliver reliable WiFi and PR
volunteers sharing information on SNSs during theconference. All volunteers were presented with an
original T-shirt, a congress bag, a voucher worth ¥3,000
per day and a copy of the official programme booklet.

A total of 140 ICOM members from 73 different
countries and territories were granted funding to attend
the ICOM Kyoto 2019. With this opportunity thesegrantees were able to connect with many international
museum professionals, develop their capacities andknowledge which they were able to share with colleagues
in their home countries. Their travel arrangements weremade by the designated travel agency, Kinki Nippon
Tourist (KNT). The selection for these grantees was madeas follows:– 25 grants for the ICOM Getty International
Programme funded by The Getty Foundation  ICOM received a total of 101 eligible online applications
before the deadline of 31 October 2018. In November
the Strategic Allocation Review Committee (SAREC)
submitted a list of pre-selected candidates to the
Getty Foundation which approved of a final list of 25
museum professionals from 23 different countries withemerging economies. Each grant included the roundtrip airfare to and from Kyoto, accommodation for 8
nights, a fixed amount for per diem, airport transfer,conference fees (including public transportation) and coveredfor visa expenses. The Programme also supported theorganisation and realisation of two Mentoring Sessions
for young ICOM members.
– 50 grants for Board Members and 30 grants for young
IC members funded by ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising
Committee– 15 grants for Board Members, 13 full and 6 partial
grants for Members of ICOM Standing Committees,
Working Groups and the Nomination and Elections
Committee funded by ICOM– 1 grant funded by the Grace Morley Fund  Before the deadline of 13 December 2018, ICOMSecretariat received 121 online applications with twocandidates each (up to 40 years old) nominated by every
30 ICOM International Committees (ICs). The SAREC
allocated available grants during its meeting in Parisin November 2018 and February 2019. These grants
provided the funding for hotel accommodation, airfare
and conference fees.

Volunteers / Grants

Volunteers

77Public Relations & Communication
Since the ICOM Kyoto 2019 Office was officially set
up in April 2017, the marketing strategy was developed
to promote the 25th General Conference and provide
updates on the planning for the conference. The
promotion aimed to enable museum professionals fromaround the world to plan their time at the conferencewith ease and to support participants to make themost out of visiting Japan. Over the past two and a halfyears, the ICOM Kyoto office created various materials;
four leaflets (in English, French, Spanish and Japanese), three
newsletters in print and online (both English and Japanese),two videos, and a poster designed by acclaimed painter
Mr Kouji Kinutani.
These promotional materials were distributed at theICOM General Assembly held in Paris, France in Juneevery year. In addition, members of the ICOM Organising

Committee attended more than 100 museum-related
conferences held around the world to promote ICOM
Kyoto 2019. The promotional video was especially apowerful means to boost engagement and tell potential
participants why the conference matters to museum
professionals. This broad variety of communication no
doubt contributed to breaking the attendance record of
all the previous ICOM General Conferences and a highsatisfaction rate.
Number of official programme booklet printed: 6,000
Number of flyers distributed: 100,000*In four languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese

Number of posters printed: 3,320*In two languages: English and Japanese

博物館をつなぐ地域や社会をつなぐ

世界をつなぐ

世代をつなぐ－伝統を未来へ－…

museums as cultural hubs:
the future of tradition

過去と未来をつなぐ

文化をつなぐミュージアム

（ I C O M日本会員の声 ）I C O M とは・・・▶ 国や立場を超えて、博物館に関わる人たちが対等に語り合える場。
▶ 博物館の課題を世界的に共有し、その解決に向けて活動する場。
▶ ミュージアムの夢を与えてくれる存在。

I COM 京都大会 2019に参加しよう！

ICOMの国際的ミッション

ICOMの組織
国際委員会

常設委員会

International Committees

Standing Committees

各種専門分野主要ミッション遂行

30 委員会

8 専門委員会

国内委員会

地域連盟

National Committees

Regional Alliances

国別

地域ごと

119 か国

どこかの国の学芸員が、あなたの博物館と同じ課題に取り組んでいるかも

いつ？
どこで？
誰が？

会員でなくても 誰でも参加できます

参加申込は？

2018年11月頃にICOM京都大会HP上で参加募集を開始します。

災害リスクマネージメント
文化財の不正取引の防止博物館をつなぐ、地域や社会をつなぐ、世界をつなぐ、世代をつなぐ、
過去と未来をつなぐ…

I C O M 博物館倫理規程の策定、ユネスコ「ミュージアムに関する勧告」
作成協力

文化のつなぎ役としての「ミュージアム」の可能性を、

6 エリア

A 基調講演・パネルディスカッション
世界の文化人、国際的著名人のプレゼンテーションを

2018年秋頃に決定予定。大会HPでお知らせします。
ICOM会員・非会員・学生、申込時期によって料金が異なります。

発表募集は？

2018年秋頃から、各委員会のHP上で募集します。
大会HPでも情報を公開します。

（日本語同時通訳付き）
間近で聴講できます。

※ 前回のミラノ大会では、会期フル参加で約4万5千円（早割：ICOM会員）でした。
京都大会では、日本の皆さまが参加しやすい1日券や学生割引も設ける予定です。

これまでには気づかなかった新しい見かたや、発見があるかもしれません。

博物館の国際的な
規範の確立

大会内容

〈日〉－ 9月7日〈土〉の 7日間
2019年 9月1日
国立京都国際会館（メイン会場）、京都府・市内の博物館や文化施設、大学など

参加費は？

しれません。自分たちの活動を紹介し合い海外の研究者と交流することで、有形・無形文化遺産の保護ボランティアは？ 学生ボランティアと京都市周辺在住の市民ボランティアを予定しています。
2018年秋頃から大会HPで募集します。

世界各国の博物館関係者と一緒に考えてみませんか？

詳しくは Webで

大会テーマ

大会日程

http://icom-kyoto-2019.org /Jp

B 各国際委員会の セッション・オフサイトミーティングI C OMには、30の様々な分野の国際委員会（International Committee 通称 I C）があり、会期中、同時並行でセッションやオフサイトミーティングを開催しています。
アナタの気になる委員会がきっと見つかるはず！
聴講するだけでなく、発表もできます。
国際 委員会（ I C）の分野

博物館専門家

加盟機関（若手・開発 途 上国）

Affiliated Organisationsの人材育成

外部関連機関23 機関

ICOMに入会できるのは・・・● 博物館などの職員● 博物館の研究・研修機関の職員

文化をつなぐミュージアム
－伝統を未来へ－● 大学の博物館学等の教員、学生など※施設単位でもご入会いただけます。

● 雑誌「 I C O M News」での情報入手

museums as cultural hubs:
the future of tradition● 会員サイト I COMMUN IT Y へのアクセス● I C O M 加盟館での優待入館● 国際委員会への所属、参加・交流● I C O M主催の研修等の参加など

博物館が伝統的な文化を活かしながら3 年に一度の ICOM 大会が、
2 019 年に日本で初めて開催されます。
世界 141の国と地域から、3,000人を超える

豊かな未来を創造する文化的な拠点として新たな機能を創出し、社会的な役割を果たすために何ができるのか、何をするべきなのかを考えます。

1

お申し込み・お問合せは I COM 日本委員会事務局（TEL：03-5832-9108 Email：icom@J-muse.or.Jp）まで

ミュージアムの専門家が京都に集まります。
HPやFacebookで、ICOM京都大会の情報を発信していきます。

大会に関するお問合せ
ICOM 京都大会準備室〒605-0931 京都市東山区茶屋町527（京都国立博物館内）
TEL: 075-561-2127

FAX: 075-561-2131

Email: office@icomkyoto2019.kyoto

文化のつなぎ役としての「ミュージアム」の可能性を、

78

Poster近年の世界規模の課題に、博物館はどのように貢献できるか？

どのような可能性が秘められているか？

アイコム

I C O M（ International Council of Museums：国際博物館会議）とは …

地域コミュニティと博物館
都市や地域社会のなかで、博物館がどのような役割を果たすことができるのか？

世界の博物館の進歩発展をめざす国際的 N G O です。
141の国と地域の約 37,0 0 0人の博物館関係 者が会員です。
主催：I C OM 、I C OM日本委員会、I C OM 京都大会 2 019組織委員会、博物館の定義と制度
これからの博物館や学芸員はどうあるべきか？

公益財団法人日本博物館協会、日本学術会議（予定）

その理念や特性を実現できる博物館・学芸員の制度とは？

Leaflets

Newsletters (Online and in print)

国際的課題と博物館
災害や紛争、グローバル化、高齢化など、世界各国の博物館関係者と一緒に考えてみませんか？

3

ICOM 京都大会 HP
http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/Jp
ICOM 京都大会 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/icomkyoto2019/2

過去のイベントの記録や関連情報もチェックしてみてください。

●●●

I C O M- I TC（国際研修センター）の博物館専門研修、各委員会主催のセミナー・ワークショップ

あなたも I COM会員に！ I C OM 会員の特典

Videos

9/1

〈日〉

2

〈月〉

●

諮問協議会会議

各国際委員会のセッション

基調講演

ミュージアムフェア（展示会）
基調講演・パネルディスカッション

4

基調講演・パネルディスカッション〈火〉●

国内委員長・国際委員長会議

●
●

開会式

3

各国際委員会のセッション

ミュージアムフェア（展示会）
各国際委員会のセッション

オープニング・パーティ（国立京都国際会館）

ソーシャル・イベント（京都市内各地）

ミュージアムフェア（展示会）（京都市内各地）

5

各国際委員会等のオフサイト・ミーティング

ソーシャル・イベント（京都、関西周辺の博物館、文化施設、大学など）（京都市内各地）

〈木〉

6
7

〈土〉

エクスカーション

諮問協議会会議

3日間にわたり、メイン会場イベントホールで開催。
博物館・文化に関わる多彩な企業・団体が出展します。

D エクスカーション
京都府・市内を中心に、関西一円、そして遠方のツアーまで国内外のミュージアム専門家が“参加してみたい！”と思うような一捻りきかせた I C O M 専用コースをご用意します。

E ソーシャルイベント（京都府・京都市内、関西一円、遠方）

全体総会

歴史・考古学 ● 民族学 ● 美術 ● 装飾美術・デザイン
科学技術 ● 自然史 ● 文学 ● エジプト学
都市博物館 ● 地域博物館 ● 歴史的建造物博物館
公共の犯罪犠牲者追悼博物館 ● 大学博物館
博物館学 ● 博物館教育 ● 人材育成 ● マネージメント
広報・マーケティング ●博物館建築 ● 展示 ● セキュリティ
コレクティング ● ドキュメンテーション ● 保存
AV技術とソーシャルメディア
楽器 ● 武器・軍事 ● ガラス ● 衣装 ● 貨幣

ソーシャル・イベント

〈水〉

〈金〉

●
●

C ミュージアムフェア（展示会）

閉会式・パーティ（京都国立博物館）

夜は、市内の文化エリアが会場となり、さまざまな交流イベントが開催されます。夜間開館する博物館も。
京都全体が、まるごとミュージアムになります。

PR Opportunities Through Various Events

Number of events organised leading up to ICOM Kyoto
2019
Conferences2
Symposiums
4
Workshops
8
Presented at more than 150 meetings in 40 countries.

International Museum Day Symposium 2018 in Osaka

International Museum Day Symposium 2019 in Kyoto

ICOM Museum Café 2017 in TokyoICOM Kyoto, broadened the outreach to local citizens.
Besides the events held in Japan, extensive promotional
activities were directed by the chairs and membersof the ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee.
Assigned Japanese representatives of 30 international
committees attended annual meetings and helped toorganise the programme for the conference over thethree-year period. The members of the ICOM Kyoto
2019 Organising Committee also attended museumrelated conferences such as AAM and MA to present thesignificance of ICOM Kyoto 2019.

ICOM-CAMOC 2017 in Mexico City

Public Relations & Communication

ICOM Kyoto 2019 was promoted both in Japan andoverseas. In Japan, the ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising
Committee held a variety of events, including
symposiums, workshops, and press conferences, aiming
to raise awareness of ICOM Kyoto 2019 among Japanesemuseum professionals and citizens. At an annual
symposium for International Museum Day on 18 May,
distinguished museum professionals were invited to givelectures and discuss hot topics related to museums.
The ICOM Cafe and the Workshop on Museum
Prospects and Potentials were held in Tokyo and Kyoto,allowing young museum professionals to discusschallenges and opportunities surrounding the museum
world and get involved in ICOM Kyoto 2019. At theworkshop, for example, participants contributed tocreate the Frequently Asked Questions page on the
ICOM Kyoto 2019 website. Other promotional eventsand symposiums, led by the Promotion Committee for

AAM 2019 in New Orleans

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Public Relations & Communication
Media Coverage
In total, 1,180 articles that mentioned ICOM were
published between 20 August and 11 September 2019. Outof them, around 300 mentioned the museum deﬁnition,
while the rest focused on ICOM Kyoto 2019. Inﬂuential
outlets that mentioned ICOM included Time Magazine(USA), Il Corriere della fera (Italy), Le Monde (France), andMilenio (Mexico).
Overseas
Online Articles (1 Aug. to 11 Sep. 2019)
In Japan
Online Articles (1 Aug. to 11 Sep. 2019)
TV Programmes (30 Aug. to 8 Sep. 2019)
Radio Programmes
Articles in Magazines (1 Aug. to 1 Nov. 2019)
Articles in Newspapers (1 Aug. to 1 Nov. 2019)

361
819
4
7
28
400

The ICOM General Secretariat and ICOM Kyoto
Organising Committee coordinated media coverage forinternational and Japanese media outlets by facilitating
the press kit and press releases as well as interviews of
keynote speakers and the president of ICOM. One
hundred days prior to ICOM Kyoto 2019, the firstpress conference was held on 26 May at Kyoto National
Museum. Two days before the conference started, a press
briefing was conducted to draw media attention to theconference. More than 50 journalists attended the secondpress conference held on the last day, 7 September in
ICC Kyoto.

Welcoming Attendees in Kyoto

Supported by Kyoto City, Kyoto Station Building Development Co., Ltd.

Supported by Promotion Committee for ICOM
Kyoto 201980

Shichijo-dori Shopping Street

Supported by Yasaka Group

Website and App
More than 2,100 people downloaded the official mobile
app. The app was useful for obtaining the latest updates on
the programme and connecting with other participants.
The users were able to create a personalized schedule andsearch the diverse sessions held at the same time.

Public Relations & Communication

The ICOM Kyoto 2019 website was updated daily infour languages: English, French, Spanish, and Japanese.
In addition to all the necessary information on sessions
and speakers, we took special care to provide useful
information on travel information and accessibility, toreach out to those visiting Japan for the first time.

Social Media#ICOMKyoto2019 Hashtag
In 2019, 6,364 tweets were sent with the hashtag#ICOMKyoto2019, out of which 5,103 were sent between
31 August and 7 September. Through 2019, the hashtag
gathered a cumulative reach of 17,8 million users.
Between 31 August and 7 September, 91% of the tweets
containing #ICOMKyoto2019 were sent in English. It
was followed by Japanese (181 tweets), French (136 tweets),and Spanish (110) tweets. Despite being the dominantlanguage, the origin of the tweets come from many nonEnglish-speaking countries. Tweets were sent from 88
countries: 32 in Europe, 19 in the Americas, 20 in Africa
and the Middle East, and 17 in Asia and Oceania. Morethan 1,600 pictures and videos have been shared on
Instagram with #ICOMKyoto2019 since the launch of
the hashtag in 2018.

Live Coverage
Seven sessions were broadcasted on Facebook Live. Witha total of 9:20 hours in three days, approximately 48,200
users watched more than 133 hours of the live sessions.
The most-watched streaming was the plenary on themuseum deﬁnition, followed by the panel on museums
and local development, and the panel on decolonisation
and restitution. Most sessions were covered via 235 live
tweets with 503,000 impressions.
Total posts by ICOM and the ICOM Kyoto 2019
Organising Committee
560 on Facebook
225 on Instagram
300 on Twitter
16 Videos and 14,784 views on YouTube

ICOM Kyoto 2019 Organising Committee Social Media Pages• Instagram
Launched Sep. 2018
1,700 Followers, 180 posts, 7 videos, 16 stories
More than 1,000 people from 50 countries sent their pictures and participated in the ICOM Kyoto countdown
campaign launched a year ago.
• Facebook
Grew 43,6% from the beginning to the end of the promotional campaign
February 2018: 5,665 likes
October 2019: 8,140 likes

81Registration Information
Organisational Structure
The various registration systems for the Conference were managed under the organisational structure shown below.
Congrès Inc., the appointed professional congress organiser (PCO), served as the central operational secretariat,
with K.I.T. GmbH in charge of the general registration system and Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd. (KNT) in chargeof registration for the excursions and accommodations. The registration system was launched in January 2019, andparticipants registered according to the categories and fees shown below.
I CO M

OC
Direction・Overall conference management
・Registration website construction
・Inquiry handling (in Japan)

Congrès Inc.
・General registration system construction KNT・Registration & Settlement processing
・Inquiry handling (Overseas)

K.I.T.

KNT

・Excursion & Accommodation system construction
・Registration & Settlement processing

Registration Fee

8% tax included

Early Bird Rate

Advance Rate

On-site Rate

(By 10 May 2019)(11 May 2019 – 23 Aug. 2019)¥43,000¥56,000¥68,000(€330)(€430)(€523)¥31,000¥43,000¥56,000(€238)(€330)(€430)¥56,000¥68,000¥81,000(€430)(€523)(€623)¥31,000¥37,000¥43,000(€238)(€284)(€330)¥31,000¥37,000¥43,000(€238)(€284)(€330)¥10,000¥10,000¥12,000

(€76)

(€76)

(€92)

ICOM Member (Country 1 or 2)
ICOM Member (Country 3 or 4)
Non-Member
Accompanying Person
Student
Day Pass September 2, 3 and 4 (Up to 2 days)(2, 3, 4 Sep.)

Increases in Registration
personmillion

5,000

Number of Registration

160

Amount Paid (JPY)

4,000

3,000
80
2,000

82

06 - Sep

28 - Aug19 - Aug

13 - Aug05 - Aug29 - Jul22 - Jul

16 - Jul

08 - Jul

01 - Jul24 - Jun

17 - Jun

10 - Jun

03 - Jun

27 - May

20 - May

10 - May

30 - Apr

22 - Apr

15 - Apr

08 - Apr

01 - Apr

25 - Mar18 - Mar

11 - Mar04 - Mar007 - Jan1,0000 Number of Participants;
Category Breakdown

ICOM Member
Full Term

Non-ICOM Member

713

Student

168

Accompanying Person

179

Day Pass

1,639

TOTAL

 Number of Participants;
Regional Breakdown
South America

Middle East

150 (3%)

94 (2%)

Registration Information

Others

1,891

4,590

 Number of Participants;
Countries and Territories
Oceania

Africa3 (2.5%)85 (2%)

North America

3 (2.5%)

Oceania58 (1％)N/A

204 (4%)

Middle East

Europe10 (8%)

48 (40%)

North America

282 (6%)

Japan

1,866

Total

4,590

(41%)

South America

Total

18 (15%)120

Countries andTerritories

Asia(except Japan)

Asia

709 (15%)(including Japan)

18 (15%)
EuropeAfrica20 (17%)

1,142 (25%)

Top 10 Countries and Territories
Country

Full Term

Day Pass

Accompanying
Person

TOTAL

1

Japan

621

1,236

9

1,866

2

China

215

   63

9

   287

3

United States

195

   23

14

   232

4

Taiwan

104

   66

3

   173

5

United Kingdom

108

   13

5

   126

6

Russian Federation

93

    9

8

   1107

Netherlands
Germany

79
81

    5
    7

10
6

   94
   94

8

Republic of Korea

49

   35

2

   86

9

Italy

60

    4

12

   76

10

France

67

    2

6

   75

83

Accessibility and Services
Simultaneous Interpretation

Nursery

Simultaneous interpretation was offered in all of
ICOM’s official languages including English, Frenchand Spanish — as well as Japanese during statutory
meetings, the opening ceremony, keynote speeches,
plenary sessions and the closing ceremony. At the IC
meetings, simultaneous interpretation was provided
for at least for one day. Simultaneous interpretation in
Chinese was also available for selected sessions including
the sessions organised by ICOM China. In addition to
the 24 interpreters recruited and hired by the Organising
Committee, there were also those hired by the ICs
providing interpretation services.

A special nursery service was offered on-site at the Kyoto
International Conference Center (ICC Kyoto) for four days
from September 2 to 4 and 7 September. Both Japaneseand overseas participants signed up for advanced
registration and the service was used by a total of 37
individuals over four days.

Shuttle Buses
A shuttle bus service offering connections from themain venue to satellite venues was provided by local
taxi company Yasaka, from 2 to 4 September. There wereabout 10 buses per day at intervals of 15 to 30 minutes
depending on whether or not a session was being held.

Captioning Service
At ICOM Kyoto 2019, the Organising Committee worked
with UD Consortium to introduce OMOTENASHIGUIDE, a smartphone app developed by the Yamaha
Corporation to recognise voice announcements andtranslate them into the language of choice. The app wasused to accommodate the needs of those who speak arange of native languages, as well as those with hearing
disabilities.

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Transportation Pass
Sponsored by The Yomiuri Shimbun, participants were
provided with a 7-day Kyoto city bus and subway pass
to travel during the conference. The pass could be usedon all Kyoto municipal subway lines and bus lines andfeatured an image of the National Treasure “Hinoki-zu
Byobu” (Cypress Tree Screen). A total of 3000 passes were
issued.

Sightseeing and Morning Tours

Three different types of lunch boxes including regular,
vegetarian and halal were offered and a total of 11,800
lunch boxes (regular: 9,500, vegetarian: 1,700, halal: 600) were
provided during the conference period.

Two-day sightseeing tours arranged for after the
Conference were cancelled because the minimum
number of participants was not met. Special morning
tours on 3 and 4 September to experience temple ritualsof zazen meditation and traditional breakfast were aperfect opportunity to start the day refreshed inside andout before the first session of the morning, and very wellreceived.

Accessibility and Services

Lunch

Coffee Breaks
Cold brewed green tea and cold brewed roasted green
tea were offered by a local tea manufacturer Ujikoen,
in addition to coffee, tea and chilled water. Traditional
Japanese and Kyoto sweets were also served incollaboration with Ezaki Glico as well as with membersof Kyoto Hyakumikai, an exclusive community of theoldest food companies in Kyoto, including Shogoin
Yatsuhashi, Mamesei, Mangetsu and Kameya Yoshinaga.

Related Events
During ICOM Kyoto 2019, participants had a chance
to enjoy late-night openings of the city’s museums,
exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art, andspecial access and free exhibitions at temples and shrines
at more than 150 locations across the Kansai region.

Special Offers
Participants received special offers by simply showing
their conference badge at more than 100 locations in thearea, to experience unique art, culture, dining and otheractivities in the city of Kyoto and the Kansai area.

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Participant Sur vey

Participant Survey
The objective of this survey is to evaluate to what extent ICOM Kyoto 2019 succeeded in achieving its goals, in theopinion of the participants. A questionnaire was sent out via e-mail to all the participants registered for the 25th ICOMGeneral Conference. A total number of 1,606 responses were collected in 17 days in October 2019. More than 90% of
the participants answered they were satisfied.
In the ratings for the academic programme aspects, participants were especially satisfied with the excursions,

Q1 Are you currently an ICOMQ 2 Is this your first time to attend an

Member?

ICOM General Conference?

No

28%

No

41%

Yes

59 %

Yes

72 %

Q 3 How did you hear about

Q 4 Overall, how would you rate

ICOM Kyoto 2019?

the ICOM Kyoto 2019?
Other Website 2 %Magazine/Journal/Brochure4%

N/A 1%ICOM Social Media

Poor

3%

Fair

N/A 1%

7%

5%

Work/
Family/FriendICOM
Newsletter

11%

Superior

27%

22%

Other

11%

ICOM
Official Website

Event/
Symposium/
Conference

35 %

Good

Excellent

32 %

27%

12 %

Q 5 How likely are you to recommend afriend or colleague to attend an ICOMGeneral Conference?
Not at all likely

N/A

2%

Unlikely
Probably

21%

Likely30 %88General Conference in 2022 in Prague?

N/A

1%

6%

Q 6 Will you attend the 26th ICOM

Very likely

40 %

1%
No

Yes

29 %

32 %

Maybe

38 %

keynote speeches, plenary sessions and museum fair. Regarding organisational aspects, staff and volunteers, venues,
and wi-fi are the top three reasons that contributed to the high satisfaction rate. Elements that could be improved in the
future are the mobile app, on-site registration, and food and beverages. The overall satisfaction rating indicates that theconference was well received and highly regarded. 70% of the participants who answered the survey would recommend
a friend or colleague to attend an ICOM General Conference.

Superior

ExcellentGood

Excursion

52 %Keynote Speech

37%

Plenary Session

23 %

37%

Museum Fair and Expo Forum

25 %

31%

Post-Conference Tour48 %Committee Meeting

32 %Panel Discussion

22 %

33 %

33 %

Workshop

22 %

31%

31%

Networking Session

21%

29 %

Social Event

31%

Networking Lounge

19 %0Less than Good

28 %

13 %

29 %

10 %

34 %

10 %
20 %

11%

25 %

11%
12 %
16 %

32 %
25 %

18 %
25 %

26 %

19 %

35 %

20

30

Q 8 Ratings of Organisational Aspects

10 %

30 %

21%

10

7%

24 %

32 %

40

20 %

50

Superior

60

Excellent

70

80

Good

Venue

31%

30 %

26 %

13 %

Wi - Fi

32 %

28 %

25 %

15 %

Programme Booklet

26 %

28 %

27%

19 %

Online Registration

28 %

24 %

28 %

20 %

Conference Hotel Booking

26 %

22 %

Mobile App

21%

On-site Registration

27%

Food and Beverage

16 %

22 %
10

20

20 %

20 %

26 %

28 %

23 %

29 %

28 %
30

12 %

32 %

21%

40

100（%）

Less than Good

43 %

0

25 %

90

Staff and Volunteer

25 %Participant Survey

Q 7 Ratings of Academic Aspects

34 %
50

60

70

80

90

100（%）

89

Participant Survey
Q9 Would you support the General Conference Programme and documents beingbrought to you only in a digital format such as online in PDF and smartphone apps?
(in percent)Yes,
I could use only
a pdf version

Other

3%

N/A

1%

11%

Yes, I could use both a pdf version
and the App (I would like both)No,
I prefer to use theprinted version

30%

14%

Yes,
I could use only the App

17%

Yes, I could use either a pdf version
or the App (no preference)

24%

Participant Comments
I have been an ICOM member since1966. The Kyoto Conference was
the best ever.

I am a young museum worker and toparticipate in this meeting opened up
a new world for me. At this meeting,learning is not only unknown knowledge,
it is the mind, it is inclusive, it is great.
I hope to be able to attend the next
meeting.

I'm so happy toparticipate and inspired
to bring change back home.

I was satisfied with the free discussion
at the extraordinary general meeting.
I look forward to further discussion on
the new museum definition.

90

My overall experience was outstanding.
The ICOM Kyoto 2019 conference was anenergized experience to exchange ideas
with the museum world's thought leaders.
It was a high point in my career experienceto have the opportunity to participate insuch a lively and horizon expanding cultural
exchange.

My presence at the Kyoto conference
was made possible by an ICOM grant.
I thank you very much for thisopportunity to go there.

Survey Participants

Age Group

Occupation
18-24

2%

N/A

1%

Other

4%

25-34

16%

3%

Student

5%
35-44

45-54

Self-employed/volunteer

1%

Government/
Nonprofit

55-64

20%

Media

1%

Participant Survey

65+

10%

Private company

2%

25%

26%

Museum Service
Provider5%MuseumProfessional

Academic
Personnel

61%

14 %

Retired Museum
Professional

4%

Gender

Job Title
Other

1%

Administrator

2%

Curator

Other

23 %

26 %

Male

38 %

Female61%

Membership
Officer/Staff

Director/
Manager2%

21%

Public Relations
Officer/Staff

2%

Conservator

3%

Residence
Middle East2%

Oceania

Other

1%

Professor

3%

Researcher

Educator

12 %6%

Job Level

4%

Africa

3%

N/A

15%

Americas

10 %Entry Level

15 %

Japan

41%

Top-Level
Management

25 %Europe29%

Middle-Level
Management

22 %Intermediate/
Experienced Level

14 %First-Level
Management

9%

Asia except Japan

10 %

91

Financial ReportFinancial Report
Revenue(121.58 JPY = 1.00 EURO)The leading source of revenue, 33%, constituted support
from public contributions and subventions totalling 197
million Japanese yen (JPY), contributed by the Agency
for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, National
Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Kyoto Prefecture andthe City of Kyoto. The second largest share was derived
from corporate sponsorships and ICOM Kyoto 2019
participants’ registration fees, accounting for 153 million
JPY (26%) each. The Museum Fair revenue totalled 55
million JPY (9%) and donations from individuals andorganisations came to 36 million JPY (6%).

5

Donations6％6

Other Income

1

Public Contributions
and subventions

33 ％

4

Sponsorships

26 ％

(JPY)

(EURO)

1. Public Contributions and subventions
Agency for Cultural Affairs

34,527,552

283,990.39

Science Council of Japan
National Institutes for Cultural
Heritage
National Museum of Art

6,231,600

51,255.14

37,065,000

304,861.00

9,319,951

76,656.94

Kyoto prefecture

33,000,000

271,426.22

City of Kyoto

33,000,000

271,426.22

Getty Foundation

9,118,500

75,000.00

Grace Morley grant

191,075

1,571.60

ICOM grants

9,609,176

79,035.83

ICOM
Nihonhaku (Japan Exposition)
grants
Kyoto Convention Bureau

4,324,337

35,567.83

17,627,000

144,982.73

3,000,000

24,675.11

Subtotal

197,014,191

1,620,449.01

Early birds registrations

83,759,000

688,920.88

Advance registrations

40,815,000

335,704.89

On-site registrations

692,000

5,691.73

Day Tickets
Congress Bags, handling fees,etc.

22,848,000

187,925.65

5,171,930

42,539.32

Subtotal

153,285,930

1,260,782.45

Type1 (3m x 3m)

48,384,000

397,960.19

Type2 (3m x 2m)

6,750,000

55,519.00

Type3 (1.8m x 2m)

216,000

1,776.61

55,350,000

455,255.80

2. Registration fees

3. Museums Fair

3

Museums Fair

Subtotal

9％2

Registration fees

26 ％4. Sponsorships
Platinum

50,000,000

411,251.85

Gold15,000,000

123,375.56

Silver

42,000,000

345,451.55

Bronze19,000,000

156,275.70

Pearl

3,300,000

27,142.62

Other7,600,000

62,510.28

Private Funds

10,500,000

86,362.89

ICOM Flag

8,000,000

65,800.30

Subtotal

155,400,000

1,278,171

Corporate Donations

32,150,000

264,434.94

Personal Donations

3,997,197

32,877.09

Subtotal

36,147,197

297,312.03

5. Donations

6. Other Income
925

7.61

Miscellaneous

32,401266.50Subtotal

33,326274.11

597,230,644

4,912,244.15

Interest on Bank deposit

Total Revenue

94Expenditure(121.58 JPY = 1.00 EURO)(JPY)ICOM travel costs

16,762,165

137,869.43

Organising Committee costs
Travel and accommodation for
grantees
Speakers costs

56,447,902

464,286.08

46,526,127

382,679.12

2,318,399

19,068.92

PCO Services

25,590,832

210,485.54

Archiving costs
Subtotal

1,642,697

13,511.24

149,288,122

1,227,900.33

2. Conference Venues and Technical Equipment
Venue Fees

91,805,723

755,105.47

Technical Equipment/Furniture

16,130,075

132,670.46

Wi-Fi/Internet

2,397,660

19,720.84

364,4982,998.01

110,697,956

910,494.79

Venue Staff

21,797,640

179,286.40

Interpreters

19,201,568

157,933.61

Costs for volunteers

5,357,434

44,065.09

Security

4,343,879

35,728.57

Subtotal

50,700,521

417,013.66

Promotional Materials

12,628,023

103,865.96

Website13,733,060

112,954.93

Area Signage/Decoration
Subtotal9

Miscellaneous

8

3. Staff

4％

Registration

3％

1

7

Organisational
costs

Events

21％

25 ％

6

Museum
Fair

4％
5

2

Food andbeverage

Conference Venues
and TechnicalEquipment

3％
4

Promotional Materials and Tools

13 ％

3

Staff

8％

(EURO)

1. Organisational costs

Financial Report

Organisational costs accounted for the majority of theexpenditure, a total of 149 million JPY (25%), including 47
million JPY for travel and accommodation for grantees.
The next largest share was for events’ costs of 124 million
JPY (21%) followed by conference venues and technicalequipment costs that accounted for 111 million JPY(19%). Events’ costs included the expenses for the parties
and other social events, as well as for the excursions.
Promotional materials and tools’ expenditure totalled
78 million JPY (13%) and staff expenses amounted to 51
million JPY (8%).

19 ％4. Promotional Materials and Tools

Mobile Application

540,000

4,441.52

Programme Booklets

11,051,064

90,895.41

Conference Materials

33,829,206

278,246.47

Final Reports

6,255,651

51,452.96

Subtotal

78,037,004

641,857.25

5. Food and beverage

17,146,626

141,031.63

6. Museum Fair

22,119,398

181,932.87

7. Events
Opening Ceremony/Party

37,103,036

305,173.84

Closing Ceremony/Party

33,799,127

277,999.07

Social Events

26,855,667

220,888.86

Related Events

17,627,000

144,982.73

Excursions

8,673,046

71,336.12

Subtotal

124,057,876

1,020,380.62

Registration platform

16,081,306

132,269.34

Excursion Registration platform

4,587,039

37,728.57

Subtotal

20,668,345

169,997.90

1,212,103

9,969.59

8. Registration

9. Miscellaneous
Insurance Transportation/
Shipping
Transaction and Financial
Costs
ICOM License Fee

175,591

1,444.24

23,127,102

190,221.27

Subtotal

24,514,796

201,635.10

597,230,644

4,912,244.15

Total Expenditure95

Annexes

Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Ishibashi Foundation
THK CO., LTD.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
OTSUKA MUSEUM OF ART / Otsuka Ohmi Ceramics Co., Ltd.
TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.

Gold Sponsors
Daishinsha Inc.
Tianyu Culture Group Co., Ltd.
Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. (Daiwa Sakura Aid)

Silver Sponsors
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.

KONICA MINOLTA JAPAN, INC.

NIWAKA

MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.

Mori Building Co., Ltd.

Nikkei Inc.

Sasakawa Health Foundation

hakuhodo-VRAR Microsoft

SHARP 8K Interactive Museum

KOUZAN fine-arts company

SHIMADZU CORPORATION

Evolv Technology by Nasc International

TANSEISHA Co., Ltd. / TANSEI INSTITUTE Co., Ltd.

NIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD.

West Japan Railway Company

Nissha Co., Ltd. / Nissha Printing Communications, Inc.

TAISEI CORPORATION

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

TOYO INK CO., LTD.

Saraya Co., Ltd.

YAMATO GLOBAL LOGISTICS JAPAN CO., LTD.

Bronze Sponsors
Canon Marketing Japan Inc.

Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd.

GEKKEIKAN SAKE COMPANY, LTD.

Goppion Technology Japan

Hase Building Co., Ltd.

HASHILUS CO., LTD.

HORIBA, Ltd.

KYOCERA Corporation

NEC Networks & System Integration Company

NOMURA Co., Ltd.

OBAYASHI CORPORATIONOMRON Corporation

ROHM Co., Ltd.

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

TOTAL MEDIA Development Institute Co., Ltd.

TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATIONUSEN CORPORATIONWACOAL HOLDINGS CORP

Yamagiwa Corp.

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In-Kind Sponsors
UNIQLO CO., LTD.

GEKKEIKAN SAKE COMPANY, LTD.

Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.

The Grand Prince Hotel Kyoto

Goppion Technology JapanKAMEYAYOSHINAGA Co.,Ltd

Kyoto Hotel Okura

KYOTO KYUKYODONIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD.

MAMEMASA Co., Ltd.

Sagawa Printing Co., Ltd.

Mangetsu Co.,Ltd

KOJI KINUTANI TENKU ART MUSEUMPEOPLE SOFTWARE CORPORATION

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc.

SEKISUI HOUSE LTD.

TBM Co., Ltd.

SHOGOIN YATSUHASHI

Ujikoen Co., Ltd.

SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDYAMATO GLOBAL LOGISTICS JAPAN CO., LTD.

Sponsors

BENRIDO Inc

Warehouse TERRADA

Transportation Sponsor
YASAKA GROUP

Network Sponsors
Cisco Systems G.K.
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE WEST
CORPORATIONNTT Communications Corporation

Pearl Sponsors
Carrière International Co., Ltd.

Kyoto Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd.

DAIICHIGOSEI CO., LTD.

Kyoto Station Building Development Co., Ltd.

Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores Co., Ltd.

Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity & CraftsmanshipDaiwa Securities Co., Ltd.

Mizkan Partners Co., Ltd. MIZKAN MUSEUMFUKUDA METAL FOIL & POWDER CO., LTD.

Sagawa Printing Co., Ltd.

Fukujuen Co., Ltd.

Samco Inc.

FUKUNAGA CO., LTD

SG Holdings Co., Ltd.

Izutsu Mother, Inc

SHOZAN.inc

JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION KYOTO BRANCHTAKEBISHI CORPORATIONKATAOKA CORPORATIONTOSE CO., LTD.

KEIKA CO., LTD.

UJICHA GION TSUJIRIKINKEN BUILD MAINTENANCE CO., LTD

WAKABAYASHI BUTSUGU MFG.CO., LTD.

Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

WATAKYU SEIMOA Corporation

KOGETSU Co., Ltd.

West Japan Railway Company

Kyoto Eki-Kanko Department Store Company

SHOGOINYATSUHASHI

Grant Providers
Hitotsubashi Sogo Foundation

Japan Cultural Expo

Kamei Foundation for the Promotion of Social Education

Kyoto Convention Bureau

The Kajima Foundation for the Arts

The Mitsubishi Foundation

The Obayashi Foundation

The Tokyo Club

Toshiba International Foundation

99

Sponsors
Special Supporters
Canon Inc.

FM-KYOTO Inc.

Japan Broadcasting Corporation

Kyoto Broadcasting System Company Limited

Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Kyoto International Conference Center

Kyoto Station Building Development Co., Ltd.

Kyoto Traditional Musical Art Foundation

MARUICHI CORPORATION

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of
Nature and Science, Japan

Nitroplus Co., Ltd.

SoundUD Consortium

Tatsumura Textile Co., Ltd.

Supporters
Association for Corporate Support of the Arts

Kyoto Prefectural University

Cyber Kansai Project

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Japan National Trust for Cultural and Natural Heritage
Conservation

Kyoto Prefecture Museum Forum

Kansai Economic Federation

The Kyoto Shimbun Co., Ltd.

Kyoto Buddhist Organization
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Kyoto Jinjacho (Association of Shinto Shrine, Kyoto)
Kyoto Museum Association

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Lions Club International 335-C
Nishijin Textile Industry Association
Rotary Club of Kyoto SouthTomorrow’s Kyoto Cultural Heritage Platform

Patrons
Japan Tobacco Inc.

Nissin Electric Co., Ltd.

Sumitomo GroupNISSIN KOSAN Co., Ltd.

The Bank of Kyoto, Ltd.

OKUMURA CORPORATIONDAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.

SEN-OKU HAKUKOKAN MUSEUM

GOTO INC.

SUNSYU PAINT CO., LTD

INAMORI FOUNDATIONTABIZURU FOUNDATION

Japan NPO Museum Support Center

TODA CORPORATION

Keihan Holdings Co., Ltd.

URASENKE FOUNDATION

Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd.

Satoru HARA

THE KYOTO CHUO SHINKIN BANK

Koji HAYASHIKYOTO DENTAL ASSOCIATION

Yoshiko KOUZUKITHE KYOTO SHINKIN BANKGenshitsu SEN

Metropolitan Center (Kyoto)

Kyuzo SHIBAYAMAMIKIKOGYO CO., LTD.

Nobuko SUGII

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

Kazuhiko SUZUKINICHIREKI CO., LTD.

Hideo TSUJIMURANIKKEN SEKKEI LTD.

Shaofei WANGNIPPON KANZAI Co., Ltd.

100

Exhibitors
Event Hall
Saraya Co., Ltd.

E02

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

E03

NIWAKAE04

NIPPON EXPRESS CO., LTD.

E05

West Japan Railway Company

E06

hakuhodo-VRAR Microsoft

E07

NHK Promotions Inc.

E08

Japan Broadcasting Corporation

E09

Daishinsha Inc.

E10

SoundUD Consortium

E11

TANSEISHA Co., Ltd. / Tansei INSTITUTE Co., Ltd.

E12TOYO INK CO., LTD.

E13

SHARP 8K Interactive Museum

E14

NHK EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONE15

THK CO., LTD.

E16

TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.

E17

The Yomiuri Shimbun

E18

YAMATO GLOBAL LOGISTICS JAPAN CO., LTD.

E19

HORIBA, Ltd. / HORIBA TECHNO SERVICE Co., Ltd.

E20OTSUKA MUSEUM OF ART / Otsuka Ohmi Ceramics Co., Ltd.

E21

Ishibashi Foundation

E22

Tianyu Culture Group Co., Ltd.

E23

Evolv Technology by Nasc International

E24

KONICA MINOLTA JAPAN, INC.

E25

KITERAS Inc.

E26

PEOPLE SOFTWARE CORPORATION

E27

Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd. (Daiwa Sakura Aid)

E28

YAMAGIWA Corp.

E29

Nissha Co., Ltd. / Nissha Printing Communications, Inc.

E30

NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation

E31

Sasakawa Health Foundation

E32

BENRIDO Inc.

E33

USEN CORPORATION

E34

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

E35

26th ICOM General Conference

E36

ICOM and Routledge

E37

SHIMADZU CORPORATION

E38

Goppion Technology Japan

E39

TAKIYA CO., LTD.

E40

BURRTEC CO., LTD.

E41

KOMYO RIKAGAKU KOGYO K.K.

E42

GIKEN TRASTEM CO., LTD.

E43
E44

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers
TRC-ADEAC Inc. : Digital Archive System ADEAC

E45

WAKAI SANGYO CO., Ltd.

E46

NOK corporation

E47

crossEffect, Inc.

E48

SEKISEI CO., LTD.

E49

Tiqets International

E50

KURABO Industries Ltd.

Exhibitors

E01

101

Exhibitors
New Hall102

N01

Olympic Museums Network

N02

EXPO 2025 OSAKA, KANSAI, JAPAN

N03

Fluidharmony Research Laboratory Association

N04

Fuji Xerox Kyoto Co., Ltd.

N05

Floating Factory

N06

TAKAYANAGI SHEET METAL INC.

N07

SHOYEIDO INCENSE CO.

N08

Hashilus Co., Ltd.

N09-1

TT TRADING CO., LTD.

N09-2

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Group

N09-3

Beijing Meida Wenbo Technology Co., Ltd.

N10

Kyushudaito, Inc.

N11

Stroly Inc.

N12NISHIO BIOLOGICAL MODELS CO., LTD.

N13

Daigoji-innovative Activity of a World Heritage Temple in Kyoto

N14

KYOTO’S 3D STUDIO Co., Ltd.

N15

ORION MACHINERY CO., LTD.

N16

KUMAHIRA CO., LTD.

N17

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.

N18

Nikkei Inc.

N19

Teikoku Databank Historical Museum

N20

Daiichigosei Co., Ltd.

N21

The International Journal of Intangible Heritage / National Folk Museum of Korea

N22

National Museum of Korea / ICOM Korea

N23

NOHMI BOSAI LTD. / KOATSU CO., LTD.

N24

CLICK NETHERFIELD

N25

TOKYO KOON CO., LTD.

N26

MinebeaMitsumi Inc.

N27

Tru Vue

N28

Conservation By Design Limited

N29

National Cheng Kung University Museum

N30

Museum of National Taipei University of Education

N31

A group that disseminates excavating techniques for archaeological sites and introduces traditional artsand culture of Japan to the world

N32

ARAKAWA & CO., LTD.

N33

OKAMURA CORPORATIONN34IMEASURE INC.

N35

TOPPEN Co., Ltd.

N36

National Palace Museum

N37

Museums of Taiwan

N38

Meyvaert

N39

4DAGE Technology Co., Ltd.

N40

Image Access GmbH

N41

Zone Display Cases

N42

JVS GROUP s.r.o.

N43

Tianjin CNRO Science & Technology Co., Ltd.

N44

Nanjing VITA Cultural Heritage Protection Technology Co., Ltd.

N45

ELCOM

N46

QD Laser, Inc.

Annex Hall
A01

TOKYO FUJI ART MUSEUM

A02

NPO All Japan Art Flower Designers Association

A03

Administrative Agency for Osaka City Museums
Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO)

A05

Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art

A06

Promoting the registration of Materials Related to the Bando PoW Camp to the UNESCO’s Memory of theWorld. Tokushima Prefecture, Naruto City

A07

Museums of Hyogo Prefecture

A08

SAKAI CITY MUSEUM

A09

National Institutes for Cultural Heritage

A10

Project for Preservation of Cultural Assets Damaged by Tsunami in 2011

A11

Union of Kansai Governments

A12

Higashiosaka City

A13

Preparatory Office for National Ainu Museum

A14

National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka

A15

Kyoto Power of Culture Project & Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry

A16

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art

A17

Kyoto Heritage Preservation Association

A18

art space co-jin

A19

Handicapped Welfare Promotion Office, Public Health and Welfare Bureau, City of Kyoto

A20

The Association for Conservation of National Treasures

A21

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo / Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

A22

Wakayama Prefectural Museum

A23

University Museum Association of Kyoto

A24

TAKENAKA CARPENTRY TOOLS MUSEUM

A25

Sabae Manabe Museum

A26

NPO The World of Cultural Heritage

A27

AKZU LIGHTSYSTEM CO., LTD.

A28

Ooiri Co., Ltd.

A30

Uminomanabi Museum Support from the Museum of Maritime Science (Supported by The Nippon Foundation)

A31

TOKYO ZOOLOGICAL PARK SOCIETY

A32

Tanaka Nobuaki photographer office

A33

JICA Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project

A34

JAPAN CULTURAL EXPO —NIHONHAKU—

A35

Seoul Museum of History

A36

NICHIA CORPORATION

A37

Relicase Display Engineering Limited

A38

Vixen Co., Ltd.

A39

smARTravel

A40

Hirox Co., Ltd.

A41

Museumspartner

A45

Dagik Earth (Kyoto University)

A46

University Museum Network of Kansai

A47

Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi

A48

International Research Center for Japanese Studies

A49

Life Museum Network

A50

The Museum of Furuta Oribe

Exhibitors

A04

103

Off-site Meetings
Committee name

Date

Prefecture

Venue

Title of the Meeting

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

• Excursion to the TV station NHK
Tomb of Emperor Nintoku, theand museums in Osaka
Sakai City Museum, NHK OsakaTV station, the Osaka Museumof History

Thursday, 5International Committee for the September
2019Collections and Activities ofMuseums of Cities

Kyoto

The Museum of Kyoto• Museums of Cities, Trends andDefinitions: Connecting Urban Past
and Present, Responses to Urban
Issues• Museums of Cities and Sustainable
Urban and Local Community
Development

International Committees
AVICOM

International Committee
for Audiovisual and New
Technologies and Social
Media

CAMOC

CECA

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Wakayama

Wakayama Prefecture
Kii-fudoki-no-oka Museum ofArchaeology and Folklore
Wakayama Prefectural Museum
Museum of Modern Art,
Wakayama• ICOM-CECA OFF-SITE MEETING
IN WAKAYAMA

CIDOC

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Tokushima

Otsuka Museum of Art• Copies, Replicas, and Clone
Cultural Properties

CIMCIM

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

National Museum of Ethnology(MINPAKU), Osaka• Diversity and Universality (Joint

Friday, 6
September
2019

ShizuokaHamamatsu Museum of MusicalInstruments and MusicalInstrument Factories• Excursion to Hamamatsu (CIMCIM

CIMUSET

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Aichi

Nagoya City Science Museum,
Toyota Commemorative Museumof Industry &Technology• Sustainable Technical & Scientific
Heritage

CIPEG

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Shiga
Kyoto

Miho Museum and Kyoto
University• Visit to the MIHO Museum in Koka,
and to the Egyptian Collection at
Kyoto University

COMCOLThursday, 5
September
2019

Shiga
Kyoto

Miho Museum, The National
Museum of Modern Art• Traditions of collecting at Miho
Museum & MoMAKCOSTUME

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Artisan Studios, Kyoto CostumeInstitute• Visits to Artisan Studios, Kyoto
Costume Institute

Friday, 6
September
2019

Shiga

Konku Indigo Dye Studio, Azai
Gallery of Noh Arts• Trip to Shiga (Lake Biwa)

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Nijo-jo Castle, Old Mitsui
Family Shimogamo Villa, Komai
Residence, Kita Residence,
Murin-an• Architecture and Technique.
— ICAMT Joint visit to Nijo-joCastle• Kyoto Villas

International Committee for
Education and Cultural Action

International Committee forDocumentation
International Committee forMuseums and Collections ofMusical Instruments

International Committee forMuseums and Collections of
Science and Technology
International Committee for
Egyptology
International Committee forCollecting
International Committee forMuseums and Collections of
Costume

DEMHIST

International Committee for
Historic House Museums

104

meeting with ICME)

members only: not including transportation
expenses)Committee name

Date

Prefecture

Day1/
Thursday, 5
September
2019

ToyamaDay2/
Friday, 6
September
2019

Ishikawa

Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei
Kobo, Ishikawa Prefectural
Museum of Art

ICAMT

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Nijo-jo castle and Kyoto City
Kyocera Museum of Art (KCKMA)• Morning at Nijo castle; Exhibition
space and protection of cultural
assets: joint with DEMHIST• Afternoon at KCKMA; Reforming
Museum Architecture for the future

ICDAD

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Various museums and culturalsites• Artistic traditions of Kyoto

ICEE

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Morning: Kyoto City Tour
Afternoon: Kyoto National
Museum• Exhibition Exchange andInternational Collaborations

ICFA

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
and The National Museum ofArt, Osaka• Collection and Exhibition: East and
West

ICLCM

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

The Tale of Genji Museum• Visiting ancient literary world in
Kyoto

ICMAH

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

Osaka Museum of History• Promoting the international
exchanges of ideas throughdiscussions with history andarchaeology museums experts from
Osaka and around the world.

ICME

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

National Museum of Ethnology• Diversity & Universality (Joint meeting

GLASS

International Committee forMuseums and Collections of
Glass

International Committee forArchitecture and Museum
Techniques

International Committee for
Exhibition ExchangeInternational Committee forMuseums and Collections ofFine Arts
International Committee for
Literary and Composers’
Museums
International Committee forMuseums and Collections ofArchaeology and History

International Committee forMuseums and Collections ofEthnography

Thursday, 5
SeptemberInternational Committee
2019
of Memorial Museums in
Remembrance of the Victims of
Public Crimes

ICMEMOICMSInternational Committee forMuseum Security

Toyama City Institute of Glass
Art, Toyama Glass Studio,
Toyama Glass Art Museum(MINPAKU)

Hiroshima

Title of the Meeting• Glass Museums in Hokuriku area,
Japan (Two-day excursion in Toyama andKanazawa)

Off-site Meetings

International Committee forMuseums and Collections ofDecorative Arts and Design

Venuewith CIMCIM)

Hiroshima Peace Museum• Relics, Remains and Narratives
from Ground Zero

Wednesday,
4 September
2019

Kyoto

ICC Kyoto /Kiyomizudera-temple• Field study/ visit  Fire prevention system for culturalproperties & their buffer zone;  Site visit to Kiyomizudera-temple
and Sanneizaka conservation
district.

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Hyogo

Hyogo Prefectural Museum ofArt, Takenaka Carpentry Tools
Museum, Disaster Reduction and
Human Renovation Institution• ICMS off-site meeting in KOBE

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Off-site Meetings
Committee name

Date

Prefecture

Venue

Title of the Meeting

ICOFOM

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Doshisha University - Ryoshinkan
Building• The future of tradition in Museology

ICOM-CC

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Nara

Nara National Research Institute/ Nara National Museum/ Horyuji Temple• Tour dedicated to conservation
after the 2011 tsunami and toconservation of Nara Monuments
and sites.

Thursday, 5
SeptemberInternational Committee forMuseums of Arms and Military 2019
History

Osaka,
Kyoto

Dainenbutsu-ji, Kyoto National
Museum• Swords, Arms and Armor inJapanese Culture and Museums

ICOMONThursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka
Hyogo

Japan Mint Museum (in Osaka),
Amashin Museum (in Amagasaki),
Kurokawa Institute of Ancient
Cultures (in Nishinomiya)• Experience the Diversity of
Numismatic Museums in the Kansai
Region of Japan

ICR

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

Dainenbutsu-ji, Hirano
Community-wide Museum• Forum: Ecomuseums and Regional
Museums

Thursday, 5International Committee for the September
2019
Training of Personnel

Kyoto

Kyoto University of Art and
Design and Kyoto International
Manga Museum• ICTOP Kyoto museums & museum
training (recommendation)

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

Dainenbutsu-ji and The Hirano• Forum: Ecomuseums and Regional“Machigurumi” Museum (Hirano
Museums” (joining ICOM ICR off site
Community-wide Museum), Osaka city
programme)Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Kyoto International Manga
Museum• Tradition for the Future: Museums
as Cultural Hubs

Thursday, 5
SeptemberInternational Committee forMarketing and Public Relations 2019

Kyoto

Noguchi Residence, Nishiki
Market, Toji, Kyoto Railway
Museum• Explore the diversity of Kyoto
and communications of the Kyoto
Railway Museum

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Osaka

Osaka Museum of Natural
History• New Partnership

Friday, 6
September
2019

Shiga

Lake Biwa Museum and around• Nature and Culture Tour around
Lake Biwa

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

University Museum of Cultures,
Kyoto University of Foreign
Studies• The Future of University Museums
and Collections in Japan

Thursday, 5
September
2019

Kyoto

Sokagakkai Kyoto Kokusai
Bunka Hall• Workshop: Museums, Human
Rights and Climate Activism

International Committee forMuseology
International Committee forConservation

ICOMAM

International Committee forMoney and Banking Museums

International Committee for
Regional Museums

ICTOP

INTERCOMInternational Committee on
Management

MPR

NATHIST

International Committee forMuseums and Collections of
Natural History

UMAC

International Committee for
University Museums andCollections

Other Committee
FIHRM

Federation of International
Human Rights Museums

106Excursions & Tours
Excursions
Tour Name

Destination

Kyoto City
Kyoto’s Zen Heritage – The Golden Pavilion and Ryoan-ji
Rock Garden

Kinkaku-ji Temple, Ryoan-ji Temple, Jotenkaku Museum of
Shokoku-ji Temple

C-2

The Gardens and Architectural Delights of Kyoto’s
Imperial Palaces

Kyoto Imperial Palace, Sento Imperial Palace, Omiya
Imperial Palace

C-3

Explore Tea Culture 1: The Utensils and Traditions of the
Tea Ceremony

Raku Museum, Urasenke Chado Kaikan

C-4

Visit the Mountains Where 17th and 20th Century
Architecture Blends with Nature

Shugakuin Imperial Villa, Komai Family Residence

C-5

Museum and Temples Along Kyoto’s Famous
Philosopher’s Path

Ginkaku-ji Temple, Hakusasonso Hashimoto Kansetsu
Garden & Museum, Philosopher’s Path

C-6

Important Cultural Property and a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in the City

Old Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa, Shimogamo Shrine

C-7

Learning about the Traditional Food Culture of Kyoto

Rakutabi Kyomachiya, Nishiki Market

C-8

Kyoto National Museum
Visit to Cultural Property Conservation StudioKyoto National Museum

C-9

Imperial Villa and Grand Shrine in the Natural
Environment of the Rakusai Area

Katsura Imperial Villa, Matsuo Taisha Shrine

C-10

Sake Breweries and the Thousand Red Gates ofOinari-san Shrine

Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum and Brewery, Fushimi Inari
Taisha Shrine

C-11

Explore Kyoto’s Traditional Crafts of Textiles and Incense

Tatsumura Textile factory, Shoyeido Incense Kunjyukan

C-12

Getting ‘Hands-On’ with Japan’s Traditional Craft Culture

Kyoto Handicraft Center

C-13

Artistic Textiles and Science: Where Tradition andModernity Meet in Kyoto

Shimadzu Foundation Memorial Hall, Kawashima Textile
Museum

C-14

Explore Tea Culture 2: Green Tea Traditions in the City
CenterFukujuen Kyoto Flagship Store

C-15

Highlights of To-ji Temple Treasures and Pagodas in theCity’s Hills

To-ji Temple

C-16

International Art Fair at Nijo-jo Castle
Special Preview of artKYOTO 2019

Nijo-jo Castle

C-17

Traditional Crafts and Temple Conservation

Kyoto Imperial Palace, Kyoto State Guest House, Honryu-ji
Temple, Toji Temple

C-18

Glorious Japanese Gardens and Decorative Arts fromthe Turn of the 19th Century

Namikawa Cloisonne Museum of Kyoto, Junsei Restaurant,
Murin-an

C-19

Visiting Temples in the Quiet Mountain Village of Ohara

Ohara Sanzen-in Temple, Jakko-in Temple

C-20

Zen Temple Conservation Techniques

Kyoto City Heritage Buildings Conservation Technology
Training Cenre, Tofuku-ji Temple

C-21

Time for Contemplation – Temples, Tea and Ceramics

Daigo-ji Temple, Kiyomizuyaki no Sato Hall

C-22

Fun For All the Family!

Kyoto Aquarium, Kyoto Railway Museum

C-23

Communities carrying tradition into the future…
Renewal of Traditional Kyoto-style Houses

Kyoto Center for Community Collaboration, Residence of the
Nagae Family, ITONOWA

Excursions & Tours

C-1

107

Excursions & Tours
Tour Name

Destination

C-24

Temples and Museums in the Arashiyama-Sagano Area

Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture, Kyoto
Arashiyama Orgel Museum, Tenryu-ji Temple, Bamboo trail,
Daikaku-ji Temple

C-25

Special Visit to Kyoto University’s Kwasan Astronomical
Observatory in the Mountains

Kyoto University’s Kwasan Astronomical Observatory

S-1

Important Cultural Property and a UNESCO World
Heritage Site in the City

Old Mitsui Family Shimogamo Villa, Shimogamo Shrine

S-2

Sake Breweries and the Thousand Red Gates ofOinari-san Shrine

Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum, Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine

Kyoto Prefecture
P-1

Amanohashidate, One of the Three Views of Japan,
Historic Temples and Life by the Sea

Funaya houses in the Ine Bay, Mukai Shuzo sake brewery,
Nariai-ji temple and Amanohashidate, Chion-ji temple,
Kyoto Prefectural Tango Regional Museum

P-2

Chirimen ‘Silk Road’ and San’in Kaigan Coastal
Geopark

Chirimen Road and Former Residence of the Bito family,
Tango Chirimen History Museum, San’in Kaigan Geopark,
Tango Local Industry Promotion Center

P-3

The History of Conflict and Peace in Kyoto’s Coastal
RegionTanabe Castle Museum, Maizuru Red Brick Museum,
Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum, Cruising in
Maizuru Bay

P-4

The Wooded Mountains Where Japan’s Paper-Making
Traditions Still Thrive

Fukuchiyama Castle, Japanese Oni Exchange Museum,Three Motoise Shrines, Kurotani Washi Kaikan Hall, Gunze
Memorial Hal, Sato Taisei Memorial Art Museum, Tanba
Seikatsui-kan

P-5

Visiting the Castle Town of Kameoka by Sagano
Romantic Train and Boat Ride

Sagano Romantic Train, Hozu River boat cruise, Castle townof Kameoka, Float of Kameoka Festival, Mizunoki Museumof ArtP-6

Japan’s Traditional Craft Culture in a Mountain Village

Miyama Folklore Museum, Nantan City Museum of Culture,
Seigen-ji Temple, Traditional Arts College of Excellence
Kyoto

P-7

Bamboo Grove, Tea Ceremony and Japan’s Culture of
Hospitality

Makuzu pottery factory, Chochikukyo, Taian, Oyamazaki
Town Historical Museum, Nagaoka-temmangu Shrine

P-8

Byodoin Temple, a World Heritage Site, and IwashimizuHachimangu Shrine with National Treasure Status

Byodoin Temple, Shokado Garden/Art Museum, IwashimizuHachimangu Shrine, The Tale of Genji Museum, Uji City,
Takumi-no Yakata

P-9

Ancient Kuni Palace Site and Japanese Tea Plantations

Kamikoma tea wholesale district, Kyoto Prefectural
Yamashiro Regional Museum, Kuni Palace site, Tea
plantations in the Ishitera district in Wazuka-cho, Manpuku-ji
templeKansai Area

108

H-1

Buildings Designed by Tadao Ando and GUTAI Art
Exhibition at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Awaji Yumebutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

H-2

Himeji Castle, a World Heritage Site and Hyogo
Prefectural Museum of History

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History, Himeji Castle

H-3

Heritage Sites of Sasayama Castle Town and Tamba
Pottery Village and Tea Ceremony

Sasayama Castle Town, The Museum of Ceramic Art,
Hyogo, Pottery factories, Tamba Traditional Art Craft Park

H-4

San’in Kaigan Coastal Geopark’s Mysterious Landscapeand a Sanctuary for Oriental White Storks; a Special
Natural Treasure

Kinosaki International Arts Center, Kinosaki Hot Spring
Resort, Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork

Tour Name

Destination

Visit Akashi - The City of Time!

Akashi Municipal Planetarium, Akashi City Museum ofCulture, Uontana Fish Market, Akashi Castle

H-6

Contemporary Architecture and GUTAI Art Exhibition at
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Rokko Shidare Observatory, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of
Art

H-7

San’in Kaigan Coastal Geopark’s Mysterious Landscapeand a Sanctuary for Oriental White Storks; a Special
Natural Treasure

Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork, Genbudo Cave
Park, Gendudo Museum, Kinosaki Hot Spring Resort

O-1

Museums in Skyscrapers: Koji Kinutani Tenku Art
Museum and Abeno Harukas Art Museum

Koji Kinutani Tenku Art Museum, Abeno Harukas Art
Museum, Harukas 300 Observatory, Floating Garden
Observatory, Umeda Sky Building

F-1

Japanese Paper, Lacquer and Knives
Get Close the Ancient Crafts in Fukui

Echizen Paper Village, Echizen Lacquerware Traditional
Industry Hall, Takefu Knife Village

K-1

Osaka Castle, Tsutenkaku Tower
History and Culture in the Cosmopolitan City of Osaka

Osaka Castle, Tombori River Cruise, Namba Area,
Tsutenkaku Tower

K-2

World Heritage Site Mount Koya and Buddhist
Vegetarian Cuisine

Koyasan Main Gate and Reihokan Museum, Danjo-garan
temple complex, Kongobu-ji Temple

K-3

Ancient Capital, Nara: Explore the History and Cultureof Buddhism

Todai-ji Temple, Todaiji Museum, Nara National Museum,
Nara Park

K-4

Experience the Stunning Vistas of Mount Hiei and Lake
Biwa

Enryakuji Temple East Pagoda Area, Ukimi-do

K-5[Called off] Japanese Masterpieces at Sagawa Art
Museum and the Historic City of Omihachiman

Sagawa Art Museum, Hachiman-bori Canal andOmihachiman, Himure Hachimangu Shrine

K-6[Called off] Visit the Stunning Wall Paintings and Stone
Age Burial Sites of Asuka Village

Kitora Tumulus, Kitora Tumulus Mural Experiential Museum
Shijinno Yakata, Ishibutai Tumulus, Takamatsuzuka Tomb &Mural Hall

Excursions & Tours

H-5

Sightseeing Tours
Tour Name

Destination

T-1[Called off] Discover Contemporary and Traditional Art
and Culture in Kanazawa

Kenrokuen Garden, Kanazawa Castle, Higashi Chaya
District, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art

T-2[Called off] Highlights Tour of Hiroshima & Yamaguchi

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Atomic Bomb Dome,
Miyajima, Kintai Bridge

T-3[Called off] Two days in Kanagawa: Seaside Cities of
Kamakura and Yokohama

Great Buddha of Kamakura at Kotoku-in Temple, Tsurugaoka
Hachimangu Shrine, Yokohama

T-4[Called off] Two-Day Tour to Ise Grand Shrine and theHometown of Ninjas in Mie Prefecture

Ise Grand Shrine, Iga Ueno Castle

M-1
M-2

A Morning Experiencing Temple Traditions –Zazen Meditation and Traditional Breakfast

Zazen meditation experience, Shojin Cuisine

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As one of Japan’s iconic cultural hubs, combining
traditional practices with an innovative spirit, Kyoto is
an ideal venue to address the theme of this conference.
By participating in ICOM Kyoto 2019, we hope you can
get a flavour for our museums and the communities
that they represent in Kyoto, Japan.

5min+2hrs 44min

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In 2019, this event will be hosted in a city famous for its
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KYOTO has more than 200 museums

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As the former imperial capital, Kyoto has more than
¥ 43,000ICOM Member

MUSEUMS AS
BestCULTURAL
Awards, is uniqueHUBS
in the world for its combination of rich artistic andMuseums as “Cores”

of Tradition
communities at the local level.
Dr. Tamotsu AokiThe Futurecontinuously for 1200 years—as well as its ancient temples and shrines, many

ICOM President

Kyoto is well connected to international airports in Japan.

（Ends 10 May）

The theme, “Hubs” aims to highlight 2 key concepts:

Kyoto International ConferenceCenter (ICC Kyoto)During the week of 1–7 September 2019, the city of Kyoto
will welcome some 3,000 participants to the ICOM General
Conference. This triennial gathering promises to inspire a rangeof discussions and exchanges on museum-related issues.

ICOMBest
Member,Non-Member,
KYOTO was named “World’s
City”
in the Student
The registration fee includes: access to all sessions, Museum
OnsiteLeisureWorld’sAwards2015 ceremony and party, closing cere＆FairBestand Expo
Forum, opening（1– 7 September）

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It is with immense pleasure and pride that I ask you
considerofICOM-Japan'
proposal to host the 2019 ICOM General Conference in the ancient Japanese

25th General
capital Conferenceof Kyoto.

VENUE

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ICOM KYOTO 2019

Kyoto National Museum, 527 Chaya-cho,Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, 605-0931, JAPAN
TEL:＋81 (0)75-561-2127 FAX:＋81 (0)75-561-2131
Email: office@icomkyoto2019.kyoto
URL: http://icom-kyoto-2019.org/

ICOM JAPAN3F, Annex to Kuroda Memorial Hall,
12-52 Ueno-park, Taito-ku Tokyo, 110-0007, JAPAN
TEL:＋81 (0)3-5832-9108 FAX:＋81 (0)3-5832-9109
Email: icom@j-muse.or.jp
URL: http://www.j-muse.or.jp/icom/

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