ICOMON history

In 1994, a group of money, mint, and bank museum personnel met at the Bank of England, London. The aim was to formally set up a new international committee of ICOM, formalizing a community of museums that already existed. The aim, to form an organization with museological concerns, parallel and complementary to the International Numismatic Commission.

See Richard G. Doty, “ICOMON: impressions of the first ten years, 1994-2003”, in R. Cunz, (ed.), Money and Identity. Lectures about History, Design, and Museology of Money, Hannover 2007. This article is also available online, along with other papers from the meeting in Seoul in 2004.

ICOMON meetings since 1994

  1. 1994 London/United Kingdom
  2. 1995 Stavanger/Norway (in conjunction with the 17th General Conference and the 18th General Assembly of ICOM)
  3. 1996 Vienna/Austria
  4. 1997 Berlin/German (in cooperation with the 12th International Numismatic Congress)
  5. 1998 Melbourne/Australia (in conjunction with the 18th General Conference and the 19th General Assembly of ICOM)
  6. 1999 Madrid/Spain
  7. 2000 Buenos Aires/Argentina
  8. 2001 Barcelona/Spain (in conjunction with the 19th General Conference and the 20th General Assembly of ICOM)
  9. 2002 Beijing/China
  10. 2003 Madrid/Spain (in cooperation with the 13th International Numismatic Congress)
  11. 2004 Seoul/Republic of Korea (in conjunction with the 20th General Conference and the 21st General Assembly of ICOM)
  12. 2005 San José/Costa Rica
  13. 2006 Frankfurt (Main)/Germany
  14. 2007 Vienna/Austria (in conjunction with the 21st General Conference and the 22nd General Assembly of ICOM)
  15. 2008 Utrecht/Netherlands

Future meetings:

  1. 2009 Glasgow/United Kingdom (in cooperation with the 14th International Numismatic Congress)
  2. 2010 Shanghai/China (in conjunction with the 22nd General Conference and the 23rd General Assembly of ICOM)