July 2020: 6th International IAWM Conference of Women’s Museums
The new date of the conference will be the 8th to 12th June 2021 6th International IAWM Conference of Women’s Museums Frauenmuseum Hittisau (Women’s Museum Hittisau, www.frauenmuseum.at) Austria Frauenmuseum Hittisau, the only women’s museum in Austria, organizes in...
Rapport – Séminaire international ‘La gouvernance des musées’
From 11th to 14th June 2019 the International Seminar on Museum Governance of the women’s museums of Senegal and Quebec 2019 took place in the Women's Museum Henriette Bathily in Dakar, Senegal. Here you can find the IAWM report on the conference. Louise Senechal is...
We welcome our new member: ‚Pop-up’ museum in Ireland
‚Pop-up’ museum – 100 Years of Women in Politics and Public Life in Ireland Ireland’s touring ‘pop-up’ Women’s Museum which has traveled all over the country, is believed to be the first of its kind in the world. It chronicles the history of Ireland over one hundred...
International Seminar on Museum Governance of the women’s museums of Senegal and Quebec 2019
From 11 to 14 June, the International Seminar on Museum Governance of Senegal and Quebec 2019 took place in Dakar. The goal of the meeting was to explore the possibilities of exchange and partnership in the museum sector of Quebec and Senegal and to present already...
One step closer to a women’s museum in Switzerland
On 14th of June 2019 thousands of women and men in Switzerland went on strike in order to protest for women’s rights. The first women’s strike in Switzerland took place in 1991. Since then many things have changed – but many things also remained problematic, like...
Looking at the Museum From a Feminist Perspective
On 24th May 2019 Gül Aydin, student of museology and individual member of IAWM, was invited to the Women's Museum Izmir in Turkey to deliver a talk with the title "Looking at the Museum From a Feminist Perspective". In her speech she started off talking about women's...