Women’s Museum opening in Colobmia today!

Women’s Museum opening in Colobmia today!

The International Association of Women’s Museums (IAWM) congratulates the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP) - Popular Women´s Organisation on the opening of the women’s museum CASA MUSEO DE LA MEMORIA Y DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS DE LAS MUJERES in Barrio Torcoroma,...

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Chivatica, a guide for girls, by Paola Andrea Díaz Bonilla

Chivatica, a guide for girls, by Paola Andrea Díaz Bonilla

Virtual exhibition in the Museo de las Mujeres, Costa Rica Chivatica, a guide for girls, is the result of a research process in the municipalities of Aquitania and Chitaraque in the department of Boyacá, Colombia. This process of inquiry into the social...

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Call for Papers: Museum and Gender

Call for Papers: Museum and Gender

Interesting news for women's museums: ICOM is preparing an issue of Museum International on the theme Museums and Gender. This issue of Museum International aims to generate serious reflection on gender issues in museums, how they are intertwined, and the role of...

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We present our member: Museo de las Mujeres Chile

WOMEN’S MUSEUM-CHILE Memories and Overlooked Defiance The Women’s Museum-Chile is an independent, non-profit and self-financed corporation founded in June, 2018 in Concepción (Bio-Bio Region) by a multidisciplinary and intergenerational group of activists and...

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News from the Women’s Museum in Mexico City

Bulletin, July 2020 Mexican Federation of University Women (FEMU), and Mexico City’s Women’s Museum (MMM) Many FEMU associates attended the 2020 Spring Webinar Cycle that took place in May and June, coordinated by GWI’s Vice President Eileen Focke-Bakker. The...

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birth culture. giving birth and being born

Last Saturday the Frauenmuseum Hittisau, Austria opened the exhibition “birth culture. giving birth and being born”. This exhibition is embedded in the EU project Birth Cultures in which other women's museums and initiatives of IAWM are involved. It will therefore...

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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...

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