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

Women’s Museums at Home: Women’s Museum Hanoi

In times when many museums worldwide are forced to keep their doors shut, we invite you to engage with exhibitions and collections of women’s museums virtually. On this blog we will share with you online exhibitions or virtual views into our member museums worldwide....

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Birth Cultures

Summary by Interarts BIRTH CULTURES is a project co-funded by the European Union under the Creative Europe Culture Programme (2014-2020) that contributes to preserve and transmit, through arts and culture, birth and maternity traditional knowledge and practices as...

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News from Mexico City’s Women’s Museum

Bulletin, May 2020 Activities: Mexican Federation of University Women (FEMU) and Mexico City’s Women’s Museum (MMM) As part of the social distancing measures to prevent spreading the SARS virus, cause of the present COVID-19 pandemic, FEMU decided to hold virtual...

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Virtual exhibition opening: Technology#Female#Logical

On Saturday 9 May 2020 the Museum of Women's Culture Regional-International is virtually opening the exhibition "Technology#Female#Logical. Women and technology in the Nuremberg metropolitan area." The virtual exhibition opening takes place at 11:00 on...

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