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

Opening of the exhibition From Evin With Love in Norway!

Friday the 18th of September, the Iranian Women’s Movement Museum Initiative’s exhibition From Evin With Love was opened at the Women’s Museum in Norway, in Kongsvinger. The exhibition presents a collection of 30 different handcrafted objects made by female political...

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News from Museum Frauenkultur Regional – International

It feels like yesterday that we had opened the exhibition Technology#Female #Logical- in May, postponed by two weeks this year. Now we are in the last weeks of this years’ museums season. On October 31 we will close the gates for this year and prepare during winter...

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From the streets of Shanghai to the Women’s Museum in X’ian

Known to everybody, even to those who have not yet strolled through it – that’s the no. 1 of China's streets, Nanjing-Street, situated in the heart of Shanghai. It is Sunday, that means, thousands of people come along with me, go for a stroll through this well-known...

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