IAWM - International Association of Women's Museums
IAWM

“There has to be a women’s museum in every country of this world.”

Shirin Ebadi

Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2003) and official godmother of IAWM

Welcome to the International Association of Women’s Museums (IAWM). We are thrilled to share with you our organization and members, which seek to provide women’s museums – and those who work with them – a place to share and collaborate. Learn about our history, our goals, and our members.

Are you a women’s museum or just want to know more?

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IAWM 2025 Conference & AGM

Join us in Merano, Italy for this years’ conference and AGM. Find out more on our conference website. 

IAWM Statement on Oppression in Iran

IAWM’s stands with our members on the incarceration of Nasrin Sotoudeh and others fighting oppression in Iran. Read the full statement here.

IAWM Statement Against Violence Against Women

The IAWM stands strong against violence against women. Read our statement in honour of 25 November here.

 

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Latest News

Exhibition opening at the Women’s Museum Wiesbaden, Germany

Jan 20, 2017

On 29th January at 12 p.m. the Women's Museum Wiesbaden, Germany is opening the new exhibition of Justine Otto. The artist creates wonderfully surreal and strangely appearing visual imagery and triggers reflections about the big questions of human existence. WM...

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New exhibition at the WM Bonn, Germany

Jan 18, 2017

The new temporary exhibition at the Women's Museum Bonn is telling female history of Protestant Reformation. This year is the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The WM Bonn is looking  closely at the stories of many female reformers and...

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Public Statement of Women’s Museums

Dec 20, 2016

PUBLIC STATEMENTWithin the framework of the 5th International Congress of Women's Museums, convened by the International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM) and the Women's Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which brought together feminist women...

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