Ever been on a Petticoat Safari Tour?
60 years ago in 1957 an all women tourist group set out from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock. To celebrate this anniversary SEIT Outback, a member of the women's museum in Alice Springs, organizes the "Petticoat Safari Tour" from 20-23 October 2017. In this reenactment of...
News from the HerStory Archive at the women’s museum in Alice Springs
The HerStory Archive at the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame is a comprehensive collection of stories and photographs. It shows mainly pioneering women in the traditional sense or those who are first in their field. Apart from preserving many often previously...
Exhibition opening at the WM in Berlin: Women Photojournalists in Europe 1914 – 1945
The new exhibition at the Das Verborgene Museum in Berlin tells stories of female wartime photographers in Europe. It opens on Wednesday 27 September 2017. Between 1914 and 1945, during the two international wars of aggression and the Spanish Civil War, women took...
May we present… our member: Lé Musée de la Femme Henriette Bathily in Senegal
The Musée de la Femme Henriette Bathily was inaugurated as a tribute to all women in Gorée on June 17, 1994. The museum was founded by the Consortium of Audiovisual Communications in Africa (CCA), led by Annette Mbaye D’Erneville, supported by a group of scientists,...
Exhibition opening “What’s Work Worth?”
The Natinal Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame in Alice Springs, Australia is opening a new part of the permanent exhibition "What's Work Worth" on Thursday, 21st September 2017. The newly-added audio and audio-visual material draws, in part, on the experiences of women and...
May we introduce… our member: Museum Frauenkultur Regional-International in Germany
The women's museum in Fürth, Germany is led by women who speak different mother tongues who have different academic, pedagogical and artistic professions. In 1989 they founded the association Frauen in der Einen Welt - Zentrum für interkulturelle...