Trips attended

• 2026 / Yerevan, Armenia

  The next official matter before the General Secretariat: mountains, monasteries, brandy, border ambiguity, and enough Caucasus energy to restore institutional morale.

• 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.

• 2024 / Sarajevo and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  A Bosnia conference with real historical weight, mountain roads, Ottoman bridges, concrete textures, and enough weather risk to satisfy the movement.

• 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.

• 2022 / Skopje, Macedonia

  The Skopje edition restored overseas ICOM energy with monumental public art, Balkan logistics, and enough civic oddness for a respectable field file.

• 2021 / Aberdeen, UK - Och-Eye-COM

  A Scottish edition demonstrating that ICOM energy does not require the former Soviet sphere when domestic weather and granite can carry the burden.

• 2019 / Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, Uzbekistan

  The Uzbekistan edition paired Silk Road architecture with plov, trains, courtyards, and a more beautiful form of bleakness than the word usually suggests.

• 2018 / Baku and Ganja, Azerbaijan

  The Azerbaijan edition: Baku, Ganja, Flame Towers, Caspian oddness, plov, oil-bath mythology, and a destination name that did not require much help.

• 2017 / Minsk, Belarus

  The Minsk edition offered wide avenues, Soviet residue, bureaucratic atmosphere, and a pleasingly official sense of being watched by the itinerary.

• 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.

• 2014 / St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia

  The Russia edition joined St. Petersburg and Moscow into one heavy, grand, politically complicated chapter of the canon.

• 2013 / Tirane and Vlore, Albania

  The Albania edition paired Tirane and Vlore with Balkan roads, coastal movement, and the Undergoing Trumpet energy later preserved in lore.

• 2012 / Belgrade, Serbia

  Belgrade supplied river confluence, nightlife, Yugoslav history, concrete, and the sort of heavy-but-funny atmosphere ICOM likes.

• 2011 / Tbilisi, Georgia

  The Georgia edition brought Tbilisi, Caucasus hospitality, khinkali, wine, hills, and the Stalin birthplace day-trip association into the canon.

• 2010 / Sofia, Bulgaria

  Sofia continued the Eastern European run with Orthodox architecture, mountain proximity, post-Soviet residue, and practical city-break cover.

• 2009 / Kiev and Pripyat / Chernobyl, Ukraine

  A defining ICOM chapter: Kiev, Pripyat, Chernobyl, radiation-adjacent mythology, and the moment the archive becomes impossible to explain as a normal travel habit.

• 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.

• 2005 / Riga, Latvia

  The opening entry in the institutional record. Riga begins the sequence that later becomes delegates, sanctions, white smoke, and the annual avoidance of normal holidays.