International Association of Women's Museums

The International Association of Women's Museums ( english The International Association of Women's Museum , in short IAWM) is an umbrella organization with the foundation based in Bonn and now based in Merano . The network of women's museums was founded in Merano in 2008 and transformed into an association in Alice Springs in 2012 . The association aims to connect women 's museums worldwide and to represent their interests.

The IAWM is headed by six board members from different continents, currently chaired by Mona Holm from the Norwegian Women's Museum . The coordinator of the network is Astrid Schönweger from the Women's Museum in Merano .

aims

The IAWM aims to strengthen the visibility of women's museums, to promote global cooperation and mutual support, and to achieve international recognition in the museum world. The merged women's and gender museums are particularly committed to women's rights and a “ gender- democratic society”.

The association acts as a liaison, networking and intermediary for women's museums and initiatives worldwide.

Club work

To achieve the goals, the IAWM

- to the presence on the Internet with a homepage , Facebook and Twitter . The activities of IAWM are carried outwards, attention is drawn to the activities again and again and relevant women's issues are dealt with.

- to regular international congresses organized by the IAWM with the respective host museum.

- on cooperation between women's museums and joint projects, such as B. the EU project She Culture.

- to exchange with other networks, etc. a. ICOM , UN WOMEN .

Creation of women's museums

There are women's museums around the world on all continents, which to a large extent were created independently of one another. The women's museums of the United States and Europe have their origins in the Second Women's Movement and the associated new understanding of history as gender history. But the museums on other continents are also rooted in an understanding of modern feminism. They bring the history, culture and art of women closer to an interested audience.

Women's museums are supposed to promote the education, self-confidence and empowerment of women and offer awareness training, opportunities for independent action and tools for overcoming discrimination.

Creation of the IAWM

The IAWM association emerged from the network of women's museums that was founded in Merano in 2008. The Merano Women's Museum and the Senegal Women's Museum invited to the first conference at which 25 women's museums from all five continents came together straight away. The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi was invited as a godmother at the congress and then became the permanent godmother of the network. Her statement from 2003 “It is women who write the history of the world! There should be a women's museum in every country in the world! ”Has become the motto of the association.

In 2012 the association IAWM was finally founded from the network of women's museums at its 4th International Congress in Alice Springs. Since then, the international meetings of the association have taken place every four years and, if desired, the continental meetings of the association members, offset by two years.

List of conferences

June 2008: 1st International Congress of Women's Museums in Merano
July 2009: 2nd International Congress in Bonn
May 2010: 3rd International Congress in Buenos Aires
October 2011: 1st European Conference in Berlin
May 2012: 4th International Conference in Alice Springs
October 2013: 2nd European conference in Berlin
November 2014: 3rd European Conference in Bonn
November 2016: 5th International Conference in Mexico City
October 2018: 4th European and 1st European-Asian Conference in Istanbul

Planned:

2020: 6th international conference in Hittisau

literature

Elke Krasny, Women's Museum Meran (ed.): Women's: Museum. Women: Museum. Politics of the Curatorial in Feminism, Education, History and Art. Löcker, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-624-5 .

Web links

Website of the IAWM (International Association of Women's Museums)

Individual evidence

↑ Who we are. In: IAWM - International Association of Women's Museums. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
↑ Petra Kanzleiter: Women's museums all over the world . In: Astrid Schönweger (ed.): Of beauty, everyday life and work. The Merano Women's Museum tells. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006.
^ Astrid Schönweger: The Women's Museum's Network. The Challenges and Future of Women's Museums, Using the Example of the Meran Women's Museum . In: Elke Krasny, Frauenmuseum Meran (Hrsg.): Curatorial Politics in Feminism, Education, History, and Art . Löcker, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-624-5 .
^ IAWM. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
↑ From 21st to 22nd October 2018 the First Asian and European IAWM Women's Museums Conference took place in Istanbu. In: iawm.international. December 12, 2018, accessed April 17, 2019 .

[1] Who we are. In: IAWM - International Association of Women's Museums. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .

[2] Petra Kanzleiter: Women's museums all over the world . In: Astrid Schönweger (ed.): Of beauty, everyday life and work. The Merano Women's Museum tells. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006.

[3] Astrid Schönweger: The Women's Museum's Network. The Challenges and Future of Women's Museums, Using the Example of the Meran Women's Museum . In: Elke Krasny, Frauenmuseum Meran (Hrsg.): Curatorial Politics in Feminism, Education, History, and Art . Löcker, 2013, ISBN 978-3-85409-624-5 .

[4] IAWM. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .

[5] From 21st to 22nd October 2018 the First Asian and European IAWM Women's Museums Conference took place in Istanbu. In: iawm.international. December 12, 2018, accessed April 17, 2019 .