What We Do

IAWM has six goals to guide our mission. 

  • 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.

To achieve these goals, we provide three services to member museums.

Monitoring – we maintain a database of women’s museums worldwide and promote and disseminate their activities and exhibitions through our social media channels. 

Networking – we regularly co-organize international congresses with host museums for meetings, discussions, and exchanges between our members. We also work with other networks to foster collaborations between women’s museums and other museums or organizations.

Cooperating – We bring museums together to create collaborative projects, like the EU-project She Culture, and promote exchange and cooperation between our members.

Latest News

Collections 2030 and Beyond – ICCROM Online Conference

Join us online for the conference Collections 2030 and Beyond, organized by ICCROM, from 22–26 September 2025. On 22 September, Gaby Franger, Chair of IAWM, and Tijana Jakovljević Šević, Executive Coordinator of IAWM, will give a short presentation during the “People”...

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Webinar for General Assembly

Webinar for General Assembly In preparation for our General Assembly in August 2025, we warmly invite you to a 90-minute online seminar to present and discuss amendments to the IAWM Statutes. Given the limited time and the extensive agenda of the upcoming General...

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2025 IAWM Pre-Conference Workshop

Cartographies of interruption and influence: Feminist educational and institutional strategies in museums in response to gender-based violence When: August 24-27 Despite decades of activism, the United Nations (UN) notes that gender-based violence remains staggeringly...

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IAWM Conference- Call for Posters

CFP- The Diversity of Women's and Gender Museums Worldwide Proposed exhibition at the Women's Museum Meran Opening: August 2025 Call for posters: The Women's Museum Meran is offering the opportunity to members of the IAWM to contribute to a poster exhibition on the...

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