Visiting the ‘comfort women’ museum in Taipei
Altogether there are 9 so called ‘comfort women’s - museums in the Asian-Pacific- area. One was founded in Japan, the country of the perpetrators; the others are located in countries attacked by the Japanese: in Korea, The Philippines, China and Taiwan. In the...
Support and Sorority by The Museum of Women Chile
La versión en español sigue a continuación The International Association of Women‘s Museums supports the public release of the Women’s Museum Chile: The Museum of Women - Chile expresses its support and sorority with the "Las Tesis" Collective, which is being the...
Visiting the ‘Comfort Women’ museum in Seoul
After having gained a very good first insight into the issue of Japan's military sexual slavery system in the woman's museum in Tokyo, I visited two more of the so called ‘comfort-women’s’- museums. I went to South Korea and to Taiwan. The women of these countries...
News from Mexico City’s Women’s Museum
The Mexican Federation of University Women (FEMU) and Mexico City's Women's Museum (MMM) organized a cycle of Virtual Seminars to explain COVID-19 effects on society, specifically on girls and women. These seminars took place from 18th to 22nd May, and 5 specialist...
Women’s Museum Meran re-opened!
After three months of closure, the Women's Museum in Meran opened its doors again this week. It was a great pleasure for the museum team to welcome the first visitors and to present the news. The new permanent exhibition At the beginning of the year the time had come...
In commemoration of the ‘comfort women’ of the Japanese military
Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, X’ian, Beijing – these were the hotspots of women’s history on my trip to Asia in autumn 2019: six women’s museums in 3 or 4 countries (depending on your political attitude towards Taiwan – is it a part of China or an independant country?). In...