Women's Museum (Wiesbaden)

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Entrance to the wiesbaden women's museum

The wiesbaden women's museum is a museum in the center of Wiesbaden on Wörthstrasse. It opened in 1984.

history

The sociology student Beatrixe Klein was inspired in 1971 by the aftermath of the 1968 revolution and the lectures of the sociologist Maria Mies to deal with international women's movements .

In 1975 she founded the women's center in Wiesbaden. As a result, Klein found fellow campaigners and the association New Paths into Professional Life was founded. The then red-green state government gave state funding for women's education after major political disputes . According to the director of the wiesbaden women's museum, Beatrixe Klein, the nucleus for the museum was an exhibition project in 1984 on the topic of “Women's life in Wiesbaden”. The association "Frauenwerkstatt Wiesbaden" was founded. Further exhibitions followed. The museum has been located in the listed building Wörthstrasse 5 (backyard) since 1991 on 600 square meters of exhibition space, which is spread over four floors. From November 7, 1984, when the museum opened, until the move to Wörthstrasse 5, the Women's Museum was located on Nerostrasse.

Since 2019, tours for three to six year olds have been organized by a museum educator.

In 1997 the museum received the municipal culture award. In 2020 it was named Museum of the Month by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art.

The Frauen museum Wiesbaden is a member of the International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM).

The building

The property at Wörthstrasse 5 was built in 1884 according to plans by master mason Carl Beckel. It is a listed building and is part of the overall southwestern urban expansion complex (see also the list of cultural monuments in Wiesbaden-Mitte (historical pentagon) ).

Web links

Commons : Frauen museum wiesbaden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse (published December 11, 2017): A Museum for Femininity.Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Frankfurter Rundschau (report from January 26, 2019): Women's Museum Wiesbaden - admission for men as well .
  3. ↑ History of the Wiesbaden Women's Museum. Accessed August 17, 2020.
  4. ^ IAWM: List of Members Accessed August 18, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 40.8 ″  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 56.7 ″  E