About Us

IAWM is a strong network of museums worldwide, meeting every four years to exchange ideas, connect with one another, and support our collective efforts to tell women’s stories. Working collaboratively, IAWM has six key goals.

Our Goals

  • To promote culture, arts, education and training from a gender perspective;
  • To foster exchange, networking, mutual support and global cooperation among Women’s Museums;
  • To conduct research and the development of projects, exhibitions, new initiatives, community activities, seminars and conferences;
  • To promote and strengthen the acceptance of Women’s and Gender Museums worldwide;
  • To achieve international recognition in the world of museums; and
  • To advocate for women’s rights and a gender democratic society.

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Statutes

Read our current IAWM statutes here, approved in 2021. If you are a current member, please refer to these if you have any questions about our organisation. If you or your museum are interested in joining, please read these to understand what we are about.

Statement Against Violence Against Women

IAWM stands against violence against women. Read our statement here.

Support Our Work

IAWM is funded by membership dues and donations from supporters like you. Please consider making a gift in support of our goals by clicking the button below.

Latest News

Exhibition opening at the Women’s Museum Wiesbaden, Germany

On 29th January at 12 p.m. the Women's Museum Wiesbaden, Germany is opening the new exhibition of Justine Otto. The artist creates wonderfully surreal and strangely appearing visual imagery and triggers reflections about the big questions of human existence. WM...

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New exhibition at the WM Bonn, Germany

The new temporary exhibition at the Women's Museum Bonn is telling female history of Protestant Reformation. This year is the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The WM Bonn is looking  closely at the stories of many female reformers and...

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Public Statement of Women’s Museums

PUBLIC STATEMENTWithin the framework of the 5th International Congress of Women's Museums, convened by the International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM) and the Women's Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which brought together feminist women...

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