The International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM) is an

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museums, centres and

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, dedicated to fostering links between all those interested in promoting the better understanding of

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. It was founded in 1979.ICAM
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Members

;Austria *

Architekturzentrum Wien The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is a museum in Vienna, in the Museumsquartier. It is conceived as a centre for exhibitions, events and research into architecture and related topics, particularly the architecture and urban design of the 20th a ...

;Canada *

Canadian Centre for Architecture The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between rue Fort (Fort Street ...

;Czech Republic * Cabinet of Architecture, Ostrava ;Estonia * Museum of Estonian Architecture ;Finland *

Alvar Aalto Museum The Alvar Aalto Museum is a Finnish museum operating in two cities, Jyväskylä and Helsinki, in two locations each, dedicated to architect and designer Alvar Aalto. All four locations are open to the public. They are: *The Alvar Aalto Museum i ...

Museum of Finnish Architecture The Museum of Finnish Architecture ( fi, Suomen arkkitehtuurimuseo, sv, Finlands arkitekturmuseum) is an architectural museum in Helsinki, Finland. Established in 1956, it is the second oldest museum of its kind (after the Shchusev Museum of Arc ...

;France *

Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (Architecture and Heritage City) is a museum of architecture and monumental sculpture located in the Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro), in Paris, France. Its permanent collection is also known as Musée ...

;Germany * Bauhaus Dessau Foundation *

German Architecture Museum The German Architecture Museum (german: Deutsches Architekturmuseum, links=no) (DAM) is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as ...

;Latvia *

Latvian Museum of Architecture The Latvian Museum of Architecture is a museum in Riga, Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, L ...

;Poland * Museum of Architecture, Wrocław ;Slovenia ;* Museum of Architecture and Design ;Sweden *

Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design ( sv, Statens centrum för arkitektur och design) or ArkDes, previously known as the Museum of Architecture (''Arkitekturmuseet''), is a Swedish national museum dedicated to architecture and design. I ...

;Switzerland *

Swiss Architecture Museum The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (german: S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum) is an architecture museum in Basel, Switzerland. Through its program of temporary exhibitions and events, it contributes to international debates on architecture a ...

;United Kingdom *

Sir John Soane's Museum Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect, John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects, and ...

University of Brighton Design Archives The University of Brighton Design Archives centres on British and global design organisations of the twentieth century. It is located within the University of Brighton Grand Parade campus in the heart of Brighton and is an international research r ...

* Victoria and Albert Museum ;United States *

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is a library located in Avery Hall on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University in the New York City. It is the largest architecture library in the world. Serving Columbia's Graduate Scho ...

, Columbia University *

Chicago Architecture Foundation The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC), formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation, is a nonprofit cultural organization based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, whose mission is to inspire people to discover why design matters. Founded in 19 ...

* Fallingwater Museum * Harvard Design School * The Museum of Modern Art * The Athenaeum of Philadelphia * The Getty Research Institute * The Heinz Architectural Center Carnegie Museum of Art * The Library of Congress * The MIT Museum * The Wolfsonian–Florida International University * University Art Museum, UCSB * University of California, Berkeley Environmental Design Archives * University of Pennsylvania * Virginia Center for Architecture at Branch House, Richmond, Virginia * Yale University *

A+D Museum A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes'' ...

in Los Angeles * Richard Meier & Partners Architects Model Museum

References

External links

ICAM Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:International Confederation Of Architectural Museums Museum associations and consortia Architecture organizations Architecture museums Organizations established in 1979