Women’s Museums
IAWM monitors women’s museums (physical, virtual, and initiatives) around the world regardless of membership. For our purposes, we define these categories as:
- Physical Museums
- Virtual Museums
- Initiatives for Women’s or Gender Museums
Timeline
The first women’s museum was founded in 1945 in the USA. During the following decades, many other women’s museums were founded in the USA. In Europe, the first women’s museum was established in the 1980s.
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1980s
1990s
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1950s
1960s
1970s 2010s
2010
China: Chinese Museum of Women and Children, Beijing
Burkina Faso: Musee de Dano, Dano
2011
Argentina: MUMU Espacio cultural museo de las mujeres, Cordoba
Jordan: ICWA International Center for Women Artists, Amman
Mexico: Museo de la Mujer, Colonia Centro
2012
United Arab Emirates: Women’s Museum Bait Al Banat, Dubai
Germany: Das Haus der FrauenGeschichte (HdFG), Bonn
Women’s Museum of Ireland (virtual)
USA: Museum of Women’s Resistance, Brooklyn, New York
Istanbul Kadin Muzesi Women’s Museum (virtual)
2013
History Women Future (virtual)
2014
Sweden: Kvinnohistoriskt Museum, Ulmea
Turkey: Izmir Kadin Muzesi, Izmir
2015
Antalya Women’s Museum (virtual)
2016
Taiwan: Comfort Women Museum, Taipei
2016
United Kingdom: inVISIBLEwomen.org
2017
HERSTORYMUSEUM (virtual)
2018
Musee de la Femme de Marrakech
2019
United Kingdom: The Vagina Museum, London
Muzeu i Grave, MiG Albanian Women’s Museum
1950s
1955
USA: United States Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia
1958
USA: Pioneer Woman Statue & Museum, Oklahoma, USA
1960s
1966
Australia: Miegunyah House Museum, Brisbane
1969
USA: National Women’s Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, New York
1970s
1970
USA: Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, Marion, Alabama
1974
India: Shashwati Women’s Museum, Bangalore
1975
USA: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Forth Worth, Texas
1980s
1980
USA: Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and Museum
1981
Germany: Frauenmuseum, Bonn
1982
Australia: Pioneer Women’s Hut, Tumbarumba
Denmark: Kvindemuseet i Danmark, Aarhus
1983
USA: Women’s Museum of California, San Diego, California
1984
Germany: Frauen Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
1985
International Museum of Women (now closed)
USA: National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, Rochester, New York
1986
Germany: Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin
USA: International Women’s Air & Space Museum, Cleveland, Ohio
1987
Vietnam: The Southern Women’s Museum, Ho-Chi-Minh-City
Vietnam: Vietnamese Women’s Museum, Hanoi
USA: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
USA: Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall of Fame, Okemos, Michigan
Netherlands: Museum Het Vrouwenhuis Zwolle, Zwolle
1988
Italy: Frauenmuseum Meran, Merano
USA: Women of the West Museum at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California
1990s
1990
USA: Women’s History Museum on wheels!, West Liberty, West Virginia
1992
USA: Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1993
Australia: National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame Inc., Alice Springs
USA: Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame, New Haven, Connecticut
1994
Senegal: MUFEM Le Musee de la Femme Henriette Bathily, Dakar
1995
Norway: Kvinnemuseet, Kongsvinger
Germany: Frauenmuseum Berlin, Berlin
1996
USA: National Women’s History Museum, Alexandria, Virgina
1997
China: Women Culture Museum, Xi’an
USA: Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
1999
USA: Women’s Civil War Museum, Bardstown, Kentucky
USA: Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, Knoxville, Tennessee
USA: The Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2000s
2000
Austria: Frauenmuseum Hittisau
2001
Romania: The Musuem of the Romanian Peasant Woman, Dragomiresti
2002
Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan Gender Information Center, Baku (virtual)
Korea: National Women’s History Exhibition Hall, Seoul
Museum of the Kazakh State Women’s Teacher Training University “Aktumar”
2003
USA: Women at Work Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
2005
Feminoteka, Warsaw (virtual)
Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
2006
Frauenkultur Regional International
Argentina: Museo de la mujer, Buenos Aires
Canada: Women’s Art Museum Society of Canada, Edmonton
Spain: Museo ethnologico de la Mujer Gitana, Granada
Museo de las Mujeres de Costa Rica (virtual)
USA: Appalachian Women’s Museum, Dillsboro, North Carolina
2007
New Zealand: Charlotte Museum Trust – For the collection and preservation of Lesbian History & Artifacts, Ponsonby
Canada: Musee de la Femme, Longueuil
Italy: Museo della donne valdesi, Angrogna
Netherlands: Museum van de Vrouw, Echt
USA: The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New YOrk
2008
Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas (virtual)
USA: Florida Museum for Women Artists
Italy: Casa Andriollo – Museo Soggetto Montagna Donna, Borgo
Women’s Museum of Iran, Tehran (virtual)
2009
Girl Museum (virtual)
Ukraine: Gender Museum, Kharkiv
2010s
2010
China: Chinese Museum of Women and Children, Beijing
Burkina Faso: Musee de Dano, Dano
2011
Argentina: MUMU Espacio cultural museo de las mujeres, Cordoba
Jordan: ICWA International Center for Women Artists, Amman
Mexico: Museo de la Mujer, Colonia Centro
2012
United Arab Emirates: Women’s Museum Bait Al Banat, Dubai
Germany: Das Haus der FrauenGeschichte (HdFG), Bonn
Women’s Museum of Ireland (virtual)
USA: Museum of Women’s Resistance, Brooklyn, New York
Istanbul Kadin Muzesi Women’s Museum (virtual)
2013
History Women Future (virtual)
2014
Sweden: Kvinnohistoriskt Museum, Ulmea
Turkey: Izmir Kadin Muzesi, Izmir
2015
Antalya Women’s Museum (virtual)
2016
Taiwan: Comfort Women Museum, Taipei
2016
United Kingdom: inVISIBLEwomen.org
2017
HERSTORYMUSEUM (virtual)
2018
Musee de la Femme de Marrakech
2019
United Kingdom: The Vagina Museum, London
Muzeu i Grave, MiG Albanian Women’s Museum
1950s
1955
USA: United States Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia
1958
USA: Pioneer Woman Statue & Museum, Oklahoma, USA