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

Exhibition opening: Womankind

Imagen: installation "365 days". Photo: © Pep Herrero María María Acha-Kutscher, the founder of the virtual women's museum HERSTORYMUSEUM in Madrid is opening the exhibition Womankind on 22nd March 2019 in Barcelona. Inauguración/opening: marzo 22, 2019, 19 hLA...

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The Disorderly Women Alliance

The Disorderly Women at their meeting in Barcelona in February 2019 Carla Delfos, founder of the European League of Institutes of the Arts and currently leading Art Futures in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Mercedes Giovinazzo, Director of Interarts in Barcelona, Spain...

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Commemorating Gisela Breitling

Das Verborgene Museum in Berlin, Germany commemorates the first anniversary of the death of museum founder, Gisela Breitling tomorrow. " Gisela Breitling has dedicated her life to the fight for an appropriate attention to female creativity in past and present, and has...

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