Istanbul Women's Museum

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The Istanbul Women's Museum ( Turkish İstanbul Kadın Müzesi ) is a virtual museum and was founded in 2012 in Istanbul as the first women's museum in Turkey . It documents the history of creative women since the city ​​was founded through all historical epochs as Byzantion , Constantinople and Istanbul until today.

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Zabel Yesayan
Hale Asaf
Halide Edib Adıvar
Halet Çambel

founding

The Istanbul businesswoman Gülümser Yildirim came up with the idea for a museum that "honors creative Istanbul women". In 2011 she and other women founded the Istanbul Women's Culture Foundation (İstanbul Kadın Kültür Vakfı) , with which the project was implemented as a virtual city museum. She entrusted the drafting of the concept to the German-Turkish sociologist and women researcher Meral Akkent, who helped build the first women’s museum in Bavaria, the Museum Frauenkultur in Fürth . On September 25, 2012, the Istanbul Women's Museum went online in multilingual versions (Turkish, English, German, Italian). It works with scientific and cultural institutions at home and abroad that research the topic of women's history. Since 2013 it has been a member of the International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM) based in Merano . It is financed by the foundation and private donations.

Conception

The museum wants to make women's history in the city tangible using the example of pioneers and inspiring female role models. CVs and traces of women since the 6th century BC Through all phases of the city's history up to the present day, those who were pioneers in their respective fields of activity and helped shape the city's culture, were processed and made accessible in several languages ​​in the virtual permanent exhibition.

As part of its “Women's Cultural Heritage” program, the Women's Museum organizes international symposia and conferences with temporary exhibitions in cooperation with women involved in gender and women's history research, including in 2013 about the first Turkish photographer and war correspondent Semiha Es (1912–2012). According to the museum's curator , Meral Akkent, until the 1980s it was believed that there was no women's movement or feminism in the Ottoman Empire . However, research on women's history has taught differently: “Contrary to expectations, women in the Ottoman Empire discussed their rights in public and pushed through changes in political life. The concrete steps to this were taken within the framework of the activities of women's magazines and women's associations. ”On the occasion of 100 years of women's studies in Turkey, the museum dedicated an exhibition to women's rights activist Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek in 2014. She paved the way for women to study through the lobbying work of her magazine Kadınlar Dünyası (“The World of Women”). It was the first Muslim feminist women's magazine in the Ottoman Empire, founded by Ulviye at the age of 20.

Another project of the museum is the “Information pool on women's history research in Turkey”, which gives access to diploma and doctoral theses as well as other documents.

Temporary exhibitions

  • İstanbul'da Karşılaşmalar // Encounters in Istanbul. (Curator: Meral Akkent)
  • İfşa Etmeden? // UnEXPOSED? (Curator: Meral Akkent)
  • Kadınların Üniversitede 100. Yılı - İnas Darülfünunu / Kadın Üniversitesi 1914–1921 // 100 Years Women at the University - Women's University 1914–1919 (curator: Meral Akkent)
  • İkinci Göz: Türkiye'den Kadın Fotoğrafçılar // Second Eye: Women Photographers From Turkey (curators: Laleper Aytek, Ahu Antmen)

Conferences

  • Feminist Pedagogy: Museums, Memory Sites, Practices of Remembrance // Feminist Pedagoji: Müzeler, Hafıza Mekanları, Hatırlama Pratikleri Konferansı. 18.-20. October 2018, Istanbul
  • Women's Museums: Center of Social Memory and Place of Inclusion // Kadın Müzesi: Toplumsal Bellek Merkezi ve Kapsayıcı Mekan. 20.-22. October 2016, Istanbul
  • 100 Years Women at the University - Women's University 1914–1919 // Kadınların Üniversitede 100. Yılı -İnas Darülfünunu 1914–1919. 6-8 November 2014, Istanbul
  • Semiha Es - Women Photographers International Symposium // Semiha Es - Uluslararası Kadın Fotoğrafçılar Sempozumu. 28-30 November 2013, Istanbul

literature

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

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