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

Visit the first exhibition of HERSTORYMUSEUM

HERSTORYMUSEUM was created by artist María María Acha-Kutscher as a virtual museum in 2017. Now the museum opened the first exhibition. We congratulate! OTHERNESS is the first online exhibition of HERSTORYMUSEUM showing special visions from the past centuries of...

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Current exhibition at the Frauenmuseum Berlin

Last week the Frauenmuseum Berlin opened a new exhibtion series called 'Kammerspiel' (chamber play). The exhibition series started with a show of two artists: Susanne Kienbaum with space-oriented and conceptional works and Hye Young Kim with painting.

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Girl Museum: ‘Like air, we rise’

On International Women's Day, a day to celebrate women's and girl's achievements around the world, an attack was made on our member, the Girl Museum. The website of the virtual museum with numerous exhibitions was hacked. Still, the staff of the Girl Museum does not...

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