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

Video statement on unpaid care work

"I want to reverse the power dynamics" - Laura Volgger, artist On International Women's Day the Women's Museum Meran is sharing with you a video statement by artist Laura Volgger, introducing her work "My Work Is Your Foundation." She asks the question what would...

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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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