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 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.

 

Latest News

Visit the first exhibition of HERSTORYMUSEUM

HERSTORYMUSEUM was created by artist María María Acha-Kutscher as a virtual museum in 2017. Now the museum opened the first exhibition. We congratulate! OTHERNESS is the first online exhibition of HERSTORYMUSEUM showing special visions from the past centuries of...

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Current exhibition at the Frauenmuseum Berlin

Last week the Frauenmuseum Berlin opened a new exhibtion series called 'Kammerspiel' (chamber play). The exhibition series started with a show of two artists: Susanne Kienbaum with space-oriented and conceptional works and Hye Young Kim with painting.

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Girl Museum: ‘Like air, we rise’

On International Women's Day, a day to celebrate women's and girl's achievements around the world, an attack was made on our member, the Girl Museum. The website of the virtual museum with numerous exhibitions was hacked. Still, the staff of the Girl Museum does not...

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