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

birth culture. giving birth and being born

Last Saturday the Frauenmuseum Hittisau, Austria opened the exhibition “birth culture. giving birth and being born”. This exhibition is embedded in the EU project Birth Cultures in which other women's museums and initiatives of IAWM are involved. It will therefore...

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Visiting the ‘comfort women’ museum in Taipei

Altogether there are 9 so called ‘comfort women’s - museums in the Asian-Pacific- area. One was founded in Japan, the country of the perpetrators; the others are located in countries attacked by the Japanese: in Korea, The Philippines, China and Taiwan. In the...

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Support and Sorority by The Museum of Women Chile

La versión en español sigue a continuación The International Association of Women‘s Museums supports the public release of the Women’s Museum Chile: The Museum of Women - Chile expresses its support and sorority with the "Las Tesis" Collective, which is being the...

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Visiting the ‘Comfort Women’ museum in Seoul

After having gained a very good first insight into the issue of Japan's military sexual slavery system in the woman's museum in Tokyo, I visited two more of the so called ‘comfort-women’s’- museums. I went to South Korea and to Taiwan. The women of these countries...

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