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...
International Museum Day 2020
Today is International Museum Day! All over the world museums participate with content and events. This year ICOM has selected a theme that is very close to the heart of many women’s museums: Museums for Equality: Diversity and Inclusion. IAWM members will participate...
Virtual exhibition tour in the Museum of Women’s Culture Regional-International
On Saturday 9 May 2020 the Museum of Women’s Culture Regional-International in Fürth, Germany opened the exhibition “Technic#Female#Logical. Women and technology in the Nuremberg metropolitan area.” Read more about the exhibition here. Go on a virtual exhibition tour...
Women’s Museums at Home: Women’s Museum Hanoi
In times when many museums worldwide are forced to keep their doors shut, we invite you to engage with exhibitions and collections of women’s museums virtually. On this blog we will share with you online exhibitions or virtual views into our member museums worldwide....