IAWM - International Association of Women's Museums

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The IAWM engages in a wide range of activities with our members. These include a biennial conference, committees, virtual exhibitions, and other projects.

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Three panelists smile while presenting at the Istanbul conference in 2018
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One step closer to a women’s museum in Switzerland

Jun 25, 2019

On 14th of June 2019 thousands of women and men in Switzerland went on strike in order to protest for women’s rights. The first women’s strike in Switzerland took place in 1991. Since then many things have changed – but many things also remained problematic, like...

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Looking at the Museum From a Feminist Perspective

Jun 11, 2019

On 24th May 2019 Gül Aydin, student of museology and individual member of IAWM, was invited to the Women's Museum Izmir in Turkey to deliver a talk with the title "Looking at the Museum From a Feminist Perspective". In her speech she started off talking about women's...

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We welcome our new member: The women’s book room in Iceland

Jun 11, 2019

Konubokastofan (The women's book room) was founded by Rannveig Anna Jonsdottir and officially established as a non-profit entity on April 25 2013. Anna conceived the idea for Konubokastofa while studying Icelandic literature at the University of Iceland. Helga Kress,...

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News at the Women’s Museum of Mexico City

Jun 10, 2019

At the end of the First World War, Virginia Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College, Caroline Spurgeon, professor of the University of London and Rose Sidgwick of the University of Birmingham decided to create a world organization that united university women, in order...

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