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 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

News from the Women’s Museum in Mexico City

Jul 9, 2020

Bulletin, July 2020 Mexican Federation of University Women (FEMU), and Mexico City’s Women’s Museum (MMM) Many FEMU associates attended the 2020 Spring Webinar Cycle that took place in May and June, coordinated by GWI’s Vice President Eileen Focke-Bakker. The...

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birth culture. giving birth and being born

Jul 7, 2020

Last Saturday the Frauenmuseum Hittisau, Austria opened the exhibition “birth culture. giving birth and being born”. This exhibition is embedded in the EU project Birth Cultures in which other women's museums and initiatives of IAWM are involved. It will therefore...

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Visiting the ‘comfort women’ museum in Taipei

Jun 25, 2020

Altogether there are 9 so called ‘comfort women’s - museums in the Asian-Pacific- area. One was founded in Japan, the country of the perpetrators; the others are located in countries attacked by the Japanese: in Korea, The Philippines, China and Taiwan. In the...

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Support and Sorority by The Museum of Women Chile

Jun 23, 2020

La versión en español sigue a continuación The International Association of Women‘s Museums supports the public release of the Women’s Museum Chile: The Museum of Women - Chile expresses its support and sorority with the "Las Tesis" Collective, which is being the...

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