We welcome our new member: Casa de la Memoria y de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres
The mission of the museum initiative Casa de la Memoria y de los Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres in Colombia is to promote historical memory about the impact and differential effects of armed conflict on girls and women in Magdalena Medio, also seeking to raise...
Riding History: 3 Women Who Changed the Face of Motorcycling
via ConsumersAdvocate.org Take a minute and picture a motorcyclist. Maybe you conjured a long-haired outlaw like Jax Teller from Sons of Anarchy. Perhaps you visualized Ewan McGregor and his motorcycle adventures abroad. Or possibly you thought of the last...
Celebrating 100 years women’s suffrage in Germany
The Frauenmuseum Berlin is commemorating 100 years of women's suffrage in Germany with the exhibition "STIMMEN! 100 Jahre Frauenwahlrecht. Künstlerinnen des Frauenmuseums Berlin melden sich zu Wort" (VOICES! 100 years of women's suffrage. Women artists of the...
Centenary 1918–2018: First Irish Woman elected
The 14th December 1918 the first Irish woman, Constance de Markievicz, was elected a Member of Parliament. IAWM’s president, Mona Holm, participated at the Centenary in Dublin, December 2018. “Why not a Woman?” The Women’s History Association of Ireland, WHAI,...
First Turkish woman freediving in Antarctica
Turkish freediver Sahika Ercumen, who took women award of the year from Antalya Women's Museum last year, wrote history last month to be the first Turkish woman which made a freedive at Antarctica. Ercumen made two dives, one off King George Island in early February...
Exhibition opening: Womankind
Imagen: installation "365 days". Photo: © Pep Herrero María María Acha-Kutscher, the founder of the virtual women's museum HERSTORYMUSEUM in Madrid is opening the exhibition Womankind on 22nd March 2019 in Barcelona. Inauguración/opening: marzo 22, 2019, 19 hLA...