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There are many women’s and gender-focused museums around the world, both physical and virtual. There are museum initiatives and gender organizations as well. Check out the map below to see if there is a member museum or organization near you. Note that this map is not interactive. If you wish to find a museum near you, check out our list of museums here.

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Physical museums; Virtual museums; Initiatives; Organizations


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One step closer to a women’s museum in Switzerland

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

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

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

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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