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This paper is focused on two main topics which influence the contemporary and on-going debate about museums (and, among others, city museums): the existence of a collection and of a building dedicated to housing it. Then it deals with the question of the size of cities selected for the establishment of a city museum (large or small centres). Finally, the use of documentary, iconographical, cartographical sources and multimedia tools for the representation of urban changes over a long period of time is considered from the point of view of the necessity to communicate with a broad range of users (for example, tourists, citizens, new immigrants, children). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses several articles published in the present issue on topics related to city museums in Europe and Asia, collective memory, museum methodologies, museum techniques, architectural museums, laboratory museums, historical and art collections, collective memory and archaeological museums.