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 preview of the women’s museum in Fürth, Germany

In 2019 the Museum Frauenkultur Regional-International in Fürth, Germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On occasion of the anniversary the new exhibition at the museum is called "Rückblick Nach Vorne. 1989 - 2019 - 2030". It will ask questions like how women in...

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Stopping gender stereotyped toys in 2019

  The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom recently announced that it will release a new code to ban gender stereotyping in advertisements in June 2019. Harmful gender stereotypes will be banned from advertisement of British companies. After the...

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Meeting of IAWM members in Argentina

On 12th November 2018 Graciela Tejero from the Museo de la Mujer in Buenos Aires, Claudia Mandel Katz from the Museo de las Mujeres in Costa Rica, and Ana Silvia from the initiative for a women’s museum in Guatemala came together for a small meeting of Latin American...

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October 2018: women’s museums conference in Istanbul

From 21st to 22nd October 2018 the First Asian and European IAWM Women’s Museums Conference took place in Istanbul. Women’s museum founders and researchers from Turkey, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, USA, Spain, Argentina, United Kingdom,...

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