Next Meeting

2025
Dubai, UAE, ICOM Triennale

Past Meetings and Conferences

2024
Annual Meeting, Mexico (Mexico City, MNA Museo Nacional de Antropología / National Museum of Anthropology)
9-11 September (+ Oaxaca 13-15 September post-conference) 2024.
‘Transculturación y Diásporas’ / “Transculturation and Diaspora”
Conference website
Programme

2023
Annual Meeting, The Netherlands (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Museum Speelklok, Utrecht – Collectiecentrum Nederland, Amersfoort), 30 August-1 September 2023.
“Prospects and challenges of museum accessibility, diversity and equity”.
Event page
Programme
Vimeo: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.

“La Conservación de patrimonio musical en museos e instituciones de América Latina y el Caribe / The conservation of musical heritage in museums and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean”, online, 10-12 July 2023.
Event page
Programme
Youtube: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.

2022
Czech Republic (Prague), with ICOM General Conference, 20-28 August 2022.
“The Power of Museums”.
Event page
Programme

2021
UK (London), Royal College of Music – Horniman Museum and Gardens, 6-8 September 2020.
“Global Crises and Music Museums: Representing Music after the Pandemic”.
Conference booklet

2020
UK (London), Royal College of Music – Horniman Museum and Gardens, 6-10 September 2020.
“Beyond the Object and Back, the Role of Collections in Music Museums”.
Conference postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 outbreak.

2019
Japan (Kyoto), with ICOM General Conference, 1-7 September 2019.
“Museums and Cultural Hubs: the Future of Tradition”
Event page
Programme

2018
China (Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan and Shanghai Oriental Musical Instruments Museum), 10-16 September 2018.
“Theory, Technology and Methods: Museums’ Interpretation of Musical Traditions”.
Programme
Abstracts

2017
Switzerland (Basel; Bern), 22-25 February 2017.
“Presentation, Preservation and Interpretation. The Challenges of Musical Instrument Collections in the 21st Century” with “Fourth International Romantic Brass Symposium Bern”
Programme & Abstracts

2016
Italy (Milan; Cremona) with ICOM General Conference, 4-7 July 2016.
“Interpreting the Present”
Programme & Abstracts

2015
Russia (Moscow; St. Petersburg), 27-30 June 2015.
“Performers and Performance in a Museum Environment: Global Perspectives”
Programme & Abstracts

2014
Nordic Countries (Stockholm; Turku; Copenhagen; Trondheim), 24-31 August 2014.
“Collectors at music museums – Reasons and Means”
Abstracts

2013
UK (Oxford), 25-29 July 2013.
“Musical Instruments – History, Science and Culture”
Abstracts

2012
USA (New York), 15-20 May 2012.
“Display Philosophy, Visitor Experience, and Point of View. The Arts and Artists of Musical Instruments”
Programme

2011
France (Paris), Belgium (Brussels; Tervuren; Antwerp), 29 August – 3 September
Abstracts
Proceedings

2009
Italy (Florence; Rome), 6-12 September
2008
UK (Edinburgh)
2007
Austria (Vienna)
2006
USA (Vermillion, South Dakota)
2005
Germany
2004
South Korea (Seul)
2003
UK (Oxford; London; Edinburgh)
2002
Russia (St. Petersburg)
2001
Spain (Barcelona)
2000
Germany (Markneukirchen)
1999
France (Paris)
1998
Australia (Melbourne)
1997
USA (Washington DC), American Musical Instrument Society, May 11-14
1996
Austria (Vienna), Slovakia (Bratislava), Hungary (Budapest), September 19-26
1995
Norway (Stavanger; Trondheim), Sweden (Stockholm), ICOM General Conference, July 1-12
1994
UK (London; Edinburgh), Galpin Society, Historic Brass Societ, June 1-9
1993
Belgium (Antwerp), Antverpiano, July 8-15
1992
Canada (Quebec; Ottawa; Toronto;) ICOM General Conference, September 21 – October 2
1991
Japan (Osaka; Nara; Kyoto; Tsumagoi; Tokyo), May 5-21
1990
USA (St Paul; Vermillion), American Musical Instrument Society, May 9-14
1989
Holland (The Hague), ICOM General Conference, August 27 – September 6
1988
West Germany (Berlin), April 10-17
1986
Argentina (Buenos Aires), ICOM General Conference, October 28-31
1985
USA (Washington; New York; Boston, American Musical Instrument Society, Galpin Society, May 23 – June 2
1984
Czechoslovakia (Dolna Krupa), May 17-23
1983
UK (London; Oxford) ICOM General Conference, July 25 – August
1982
Belgium (Antwerp), Ruckers Genootschap, June 21-23
1982
Denmark (Copenhagen), Sweden (Stockholm), Norway (Trondheim), June 11-19
1981
Canada (Vancouver), American Musical Instrument Society, April 3-5
1980
Switzerland (Burgdorf), February 14-17
1980
Mexico (Mexico City), ICOM General Conference, October 28 – November 4
1979
East Germany (Leipzig), National Museum Council DD, August 20-25
1977
USSR (Moscow; Leningrad), ICOM General Conference, May 19-22
1975
Holland (Amsterdam), September 1-5
1974
Sweden (Stockholm), ICOM General Conference, June 5-8
1973
Switzerland (Neuchâtel), August 29 – September 3
1972
Denmark (Copenhagen), Société Internationale de Musicologie, August 19-21
1971
France (Paris), ICOM General Conference, August 30 – September 2
1970
Belgium (Antwerp), Ruckers Genootscha, May 8-9
1969
East Germany (Nürnberg), May 6-8
1969
UK (Edinburgh), International Folk Music Council, August 11-13
1969
Nigeria (Kampala), Nigerian Training Center at Jos, January 27-31
1968
Federal Republic of Germany (Cologne), ICOM General Conference, July 29-31
1967
Jugoslavia (Ljubljana), Société Internationale de Musicologie, September 4-7
1965
USA (New York), ICOM General Conference, September 22-25
1964
Austria (Salzburg), Société Internationale de Musicologie, September 3
1962
Portugal (Lisbon), Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkia, November 22-28
1961
USA (New York), Société Int. de Musicologie, September 10
1960
France (Paris), ICOM General Conference, June 27 – July 1

Updated on July 2022