Trips attended

• 2025 / Oslo, Norway and Longyearbyen, Svalbard

  The Arctic edition: seed vault mythology, Pyramiden, Barentsburg, polar-bear-adjacent caution, and the northernmost version of almost everything.

• 2023 / Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Debrecen, Hungary

  A Cluj and Debrecen route that proved ICOM can still generate institutional complexity from apparently manageable European cities.

• 2016 / Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan

  Kazakhstan brought the delegation into Central Asia: Astana futurism, Almaty mountains, long distances, and the possibility that the route itself was the point.

• 2008 / Krakow, Poland

  Krakow brought a more conventionally beautiful city into the early run, balanced by heavy history and enough Central European texture.

• 2007 / Bucharest, Romania

  Bucharest added grand boulevards, huge buildings, post-communist texture, and early confidence that this annual habit had a specific flavour.

• 2006 / Vilnius, Lithuania

  Vilnius continued the Baltic opening era with old-town streets, cold-weather credibility, and the beginnings of ICOM as a repeat institution.