“Kunst mit KLASSE!” – “Art with CLASS”: Opening on 11th September 2016. Creative outcomes from one year in form of images, texts and music are presented in the exhibition.
“Museum space is special”, a Ukrainian resource for museums, published an article on the history, activity and tasks of our network: “IAWM as keeper of women’s history”.
Find the article here
“Women’s museums: Centre of social memory and place of inclusion” is the title of the Women’s Museums Conference in Istanbul on 20-22 October 2016.
Please find more information here:
International Conference of Women’s Museums, Istanbul, October 2016, Poster
International Women’s Museums Conference, Istanbul, October 2016, Program
17.04.2016 – 30.10.2016
The exhibition Work & Women shows the history of employment of women in Germany, important role models and insightful artworks around this topic.
Digital Institute for Early Parenthood (DIEP) is inviting professional international artists/filmmakers to submit short films they created in response to their pregnancy, birth and/or new parenthood experience(s) for BROOD FILM FEST; the first annual international short film festival in the world dedicated to the subject of early parenthood
Find more information here:
https://broodfestival.wordpress.com/
We are at the ICOM Conference in 2017 in Milan. Sissi Prader from the #Frauenmuseum #Meran and Board-Member of IAWM are connecting and networking.
Yesterday Astrid spoke at FIHRM workshops about human and women rights in women’s museums.
Today at 16:30 we are at the Amber Hall at the Conference together with #Merete #Ipsen, director of the Women’s museum Denmark leading a workshop about Guidelines of Women’s Museums and gender related museums.
The Women’s Museum Hittisau, Austria is providing an exciting educational program for kids during summer: in the exhibition about female alpinists children can discover historic equipment, learn how to knot a rope and they can even climb on a mountain in front of the museum. We wish great success!
Women’s Museum Hittisau, Austria
25 members of 14 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa took part in a conference on November 6 and 7, 2014, at the Frauenmuseum Bonn to work on new strategies and projects. All of them are members of IAWM.
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The network womeninmuseum is a loose union of Women’s Museums, initiatives and museums dedicated to women.
There are 50 women’s and gender museums and 14 women’s museums initiatives in different countries nowadays. These museums are very important for gender informing and education of people, for improving of role women in society, for implementation of equal rights and opportunities. The activities of these museums are quite various. They support different women’s art, tell the history of women of their country and support scientific projects. But information about their acitivity is unknown for the wide public. Today some of these museums began to consolidate their efforts and look for the possibilities of cooperation and interaction.
The network was created at the 1st International Women’s Museums Congress in June 2008 in Merano, during which the institutions passed a resolution encapsulating the concept of the «Women’s Museum» and defining their common objectives.
The network womeninmuseum its tasks as follows:
- to increase the visibility and acceptance of Women’s Museums
- to actively support each other
- to make use of the internet plattform in order to push ahead the work of network
The whole resolution you can read and download here.
In September of 2009 the second International Congress of Women’s museums took place (Bonn, Frauenmuseum). 18 projects of women’s museum from different countries were represented. The printed catalogue of these projects was published by Frauenmuseum. It was very useful for all participants of Congress for their further activity.
The next step – the third International Congress of Women’s museum took place in Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2010 and we decided to found an international organisation 2012 and want to have an afiliated membership with ICOM.
In the meantime a global coordination committee was founded, with delegates from each continent.
Coordinator: Astrid Schönweger, Merano
In the meantime a global coordination committee was founded, with delegates from each continent.
Coordinator: Astrid Schönweger, Merano
From Australia: Helen Jaraslafsky, National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame/Australia
From Africa: Omima Mustafa, Sudanes Women’s Museum, Omdurman/Sudan and Rachel Mamba, Musée de la Femme Central Africa
From Asia: Heaseung Kim, feminist art group (association which presently runs the Women’s History Exhibition Hall/Seoul Korea)
From South America: Graciela Tejero Coni, Museo de la Mujer, Buenos Aires/Argentina
From North America: Catherine King, San Francisco, USA
From Europe: Bettina Bab, Women’s Museum, Bonn/Germany
If you have news regarding the network or you need further informations, please contact: info@womeninmuseum.net
