The 2019 ICMM Congress took place in Sweden and the Åland Islands on 15-20 September 2019, co-hosted by the Swedish Maritime Museum and Vasa Museet in Stockholm, and the Åland Maritime Museum in Mariehamn, Åland Islands. Read our live tweets from the Congress on Twitter or see photo galleries from our members on the ICMM Facebook page.
Other recent Congresses have taken ICMM to Chile (2017), hosted by the Maritimo Museo Nacional in Valparaiso, and Hong Kong (2015), hosted by the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
All three Congresses have enabled ICMM members to forge new relationships and partnerships with maritime museums in new parts of the world. ICMM is pleased to have gained a number of new members in each region as a direct result of each Congress.

Åland Maritime Museum, Mariehamn, Åland Islands

Maritimo Museo Nacional in Valparaiso, Chile

Past ICMM Congresses
- 1972: UK National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
- 1975: NORWAY Oslo
- 1978: USA Mystic Seaport Museum, CT
- 1981: FRANCE Musée de la Marine, Paris
- 1984: GERMANY Altona Museum, Hamburg
- 1987: NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam & MMPH
- 1990: SWEDEN/ DENMARK/ FINLAND/ ESTONIA Vasa Museum & others
- 1993: SPAIN Barcelona Maritime Museum
- 1996: UK Merseyside Maritime Museum & others
- 1999: USA Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- 2002: ITALY & SLOVENIA Grado and Portoroz
- 2005: NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland (last triennial meeting)
- 2007: MALTA Malta Maritime Museum, Valletta (first biennial meeting)
- 2009: DENMARK Fisheries and Maritime Museum, Esbjerg
- 2011: USA National Museum of American History, Washington, VA & The Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, VA
- 2013: PORTUGAL The King D. Carlos Sea Museum, Cascais
- 2015: HONG KONG Hong Kong Maritime Museum
- 2017: CHILE Maritimo Museo Nacional, Valparaiso
- 2019: SWEDEN & ÅLAND ISLANDS Stockholm Maritime Museum & Vasa Museum, Stockholm, and Åland Maritime Museum, Mariehamn
Compiled from various sources – List does not include interim meetings held until 2004