Previous Conferences

Former Meetings

Lists of Annuals Meetings and General Conferences. For complete details on the programme of the conference, please see the newsletter from the year of the conference.

Former Meetings

Year Location Theme
2023 Tainan, Taiwan

Regional Museum & Regional Revitalization

2022 Prague, Czech Republic The Power Of Museums: Sustainability
2021 Online conference Regional Museums in a Changing World: Plans for Recovery
2020 Online conference,Georgia How Regional Museums deal with Crisis
2019 Kyoto, Japan Challenges facing local museums in Preserving and handing down history and culture
2018 Auckland, New Zealand Facing The New Political Realities:Rethinking Training for Regional Museums
2017 Helsinki, Finland Together : Regional Museums Engaging with the New Realities
2016 Milan, Italy Museums and Cultural Landscapes
Former Meetings 2010-2015
2015 Jerusalem, Israel Regional Museums and the Forging of Identities in a Multicultural Society
2014 Taipei, Taiwan Museum Collections make Connections
2013 Rio de Janeiro Museums (memory+ creativity) = social change
2012 Belgrade, Serbia Home and Hearth: Regional Museums and Gastronomic Heritage
2011 Kristiansand, Norway Changing Tastes – Local Gastronomy and Regional Museums
2010 Shanghai, China Museums and Social Harmony
Former Meetings 2004-2009
2009 Mantua, Italy Staff and Training in Regional Museums
2008 Pittsburgh, USA Regional Museums in a Post-industrial Age
2007 Vienna, Austria Museums and Universal Heritage
2006 Rejkavik, Iceland Museums and a Sense of Place
2005 Douglas, Isle of Man and Liverpool, UK Museums and a Sense of Place
2004 Seoul, Korea 20th ICOM General Conference: Museums and Intangible Heritage
Former Meetings 1998-2003
2003 Merida, Mexico Museums and Regional Development
2002 Stupice Toplice, Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia Museum Quality and Standards on a Practical Level
2001 Barcelona, Spain 19th ICOM General Conference: Improving Museum Quality
2000 Nairobi, Kenya Museum Quality and Standards
1999 Athens, Greece Museum Accreditation
1998 Melbourne,Australia The Regional Museums in a Polycultural Society