城市博物馆承担着收藏与展示城市历史、记述生活在特定城市的特定人群共同记忆的特殊任务。在博物馆界的实践中,城市博物馆的概念被作为行业学术性机构名称在国际博物馆协会城市博物馆专业委员会和中国博物馆协会城市博物馆专业委员会使用,使国际和国内的城市博物馆在学术上形成统一的集合体。通过对城市共同记忆的保护与展示,将城市中各阶层人们联系起来,成为城市博物馆的一项重要功能。由于城市博物馆所要联系起的人们具有特定的文化生活空间,博物馆在社会中实际扮演着社区博物 The City Museum undertakes the special task of collecting and presenting city history and documenting the common memories of specific people living in specific cities. In the practice of the museum community, the concept of the city museum was used as the name of an academic institution in the city museums of the International Museum Association and the City Museum Special Committee of the Chinese Museum Association to make the international and domestic urban museums form a unified academic collection body. Through the protection and display of common memory in cities, people from all walks of life in the city are linked and become an important function of urban museums. Due to the specific cultural living space for people to be associated with the city museum, the museum actually plays a community museum in society