Permanent collection
ICOM Memorabilia
Sacred objects, questionable souvenirs, and field equipment from two decades of bleak travel, catalogued as official museum artefacts.
Curated rooms
Exhibits
Exhibits turn ICOM lore into rooms: latest plans, canonical trips, bleak transport, sacred objects, and selected evidence. Public visitors get the sanctioned version; delegates get the full archive.
Enter the vitrine
From Yerevan, Armenia
Caucasus Bleakness Restored
The planning room for Armenia 2026: Yerevan, brandy, monasteries, mountain roads, and routes still under review by the Politburo.
Public preview
A public-facing exhibit explaining why Armenia is the latest matter before the General Secretariat, with delegate-only planning notes to follow.
Yerevan as shrine-front
The latest trip should dominate the homepage until fresh evidence from the next conference displaces it.
Day-trip doctrine
Goris, Dilijan, and Lake Sevan are treated as live route candidates rather than generic travel recommendations.
From Oslo and Longyearbyen
Svalbard: Bond Villain ICOM
Arctic treaty energy, Pyramiden, Barentsburg, seed vault solemnity, and the strong sense that the delegation has found its natural lighting.
Public preview
A cold, cinematic room for the northernmost archive material, with public-lowres imagery and deeper delegate captions.
Pyramiden protocol
Abandoned Soviet mining settlement by boat: exactly the kind of sentence the museum exists to preserve.
Seed Vault field note
Global backup infrastructure meets delegate-level seriousness, which is to say, almost none.
From Kiev and Pripyat / Chernobyl
The Chernobyl Foundational Materials
A careful room for Kiev, Pripyat, and Chernobyl: core ICOM bleakness with enough respect to keep the joke pointed at the delegates.
Public preview
A curated explanation of why this trip became part of the movement’s mythology, with full-resolution evidence available to signed-in delegates.
Bleakness with weight
The exhibit should show that ICOM humour can be dark without being careless.
Canon status
A natural anchor for the “What is ICOM?” explanation because it makes normal-holiday comparisons collapse immediately.
Delegate access unlocks the full gallery experience, private captions, upload workflows, and curation tools required to keep the public facade aligned with delegate consent.