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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Statement Against Violence Against Women

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

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Latest News

VONA/SHE video game

3RD MARCH, 2023 - GLOBAL LAUNCH VONA/SHE is a feminist video game that helps us to escape from heteropatriarchy. VONA, which means she in Ukrainian, was born from the collaboration between the Spanish studio Gammera Nest and the Gender Museum of Ukraine. We...

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IWD 2023 at Norwegian Women’s Museum

This year we can finally pick up our tradition with organising a series of  Women’s Days in our home town Kongsvinger again. We will warm up to March 8th with events on different locations around the town: There will be a “Women’s Quiz” on a local pub, and a lecture...

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Film about Margaret Cousins of Ireland and India

Mná100 in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs Irish Embassy India, to create a short film on the life of Roscommon woman Margaret Cousins. Cousins worked for suffrage, the rights of women, and gender equality both in Ireland and in India. This film...

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