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?

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.

 

Latest News

News from Museum Frauenkultur Regional – International

It feels like yesterday that we had opened the exhibition Technology#Female #Logical- in May, postponed by two weeks this year. Now we are in the last weeks of this years’ museums season. On October 31 we will close the gates for this year and prepare during winter...

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From the streets of Shanghai to the Women’s Museum in X’ian

Known to everybody, even to those who have not yet strolled through it – that’s the no. 1 of China's streets, Nanjing-Street, situated in the heart of Shanghai. It is Sunday, that means, thousands of people come along with me, go for a stroll through this well-known...

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