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 preview of the women’s museum in Fürth, Germany

Jan 2, 2019

In 2019 the Museum Frauenkultur Regional-International in Fürth, Germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary. On occasion of the anniversary the new exhibition at the museum is called "Rückblick Nach Vorne. 1989 - 2019 - 2030". It will ask questions like how women in...

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Stopping gender stereotyped toys in 2019

Jan 2, 2019

  The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom recently announced that it will release a new code to ban gender stereotyping in advertisements in June 2019. Harmful gender stereotypes will be banned from advertisement of British companies. After the...

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Meeting of IAWM members in Argentina

Dec 23, 2018

On 12th November 2018 Graciela Tejero from the Museo de la Mujer in Buenos Aires, Claudia Mandel Katz from the Museo de las Mujeres in Costa Rica, and Ana Silvia from the initiative for a women’s museum in Guatemala came together for a small meeting of Latin American...

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October 2018: women’s museums conference in Istanbul

Dec 12, 2018

From 21st to 22nd October 2018 the First Asian and European IAWM Women’s Museums Conference took place in Istanbul. Women’s museum founders and researchers from Turkey, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, USA, Spain, Argentina, United Kingdom,...

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