Beth Daley
Editorial Adviser , Europeana Foundation
Every year, Europeana Initiative and partners contribute to Women’s History Month by sharing stories about women from history. In the past few years, we’ve collaborated with a range of organisations who have showcased their activities on the Europeana Instagram account. Discover some inspiring women-based museums we’ve collaborated with!
1. Girl Museum is the first museum in the world dedicated to girlhood. Its online exhibition series tells stories about girls around the world from the past and present.
2. Kvindemuseet i Danmark now KON is a Danish museum in the heart of Aarhus. It is one of the few museums in the world focusing on gender and equality.
3. Istanbul Gender Museum, established in 2022, designs and realises physical and virtual exhibition concepts accompanied by museum pedagogy modules, cultural events, publications and alternative communication methods. See an example of our collaboration below and on Instagram.
4. Kvinno Historiska Sweden - Stockholms Museum of Women’s History highlights women's history linked to current issues that affect people's daily lives. The museum doesn’t have a building, but takes place in your everyday life - in the town square, your favorite museum or local library, on the milk carton on your breakfast table or in your podcast player. Its current headline exhibition is ‘The Road to Abortion Freedom: 50 years of voices, rights and change’.
5. Kvinnemuseet Norway (The Women’s Museum) questions why certain parts of history are either highlighted or hidden and strives to tell the sides of history that are not told at other museums. For generations, women were confined to the home. However, that does not make their stories less important. The Women's Museum tells the stories of women at home and through their entrance into the public eye.
6. Women’s History Museum Zambia was set up to document and revive narratives of African history with a specific focus on women. Listen to its Leading Ladies podcast. See an example of our collaboration below and on Instagram.
7. Atria is the knowledge institute for emancipation and women's history. It offers society and science a unique collection, independent research and scientific knowledge in the field of gender equality. The attention to the specific interaction between different groups in society makes its collection invaluable.
8. Frauen Museum Berlin - The Women's Museum Berlin sees itself as a network for female artists living and working in Berlin. The non-profit association was founded in the 1990s and has been active in the field of visual arts without a permanent location since 2007.
9. Charlotte Museum Te Whare Takatāpui-Wāhine o Aotearoa. Based in New Zealand, the core vision of the Museum is to preserve, collect, exhibit Lesbian Sapphic herstory, the Lesbian cultural experience, and our diverse Lesbian Sapphic communities and lives in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Would you like to collaborate with us in future? Does your institution or organisation have content around women’s history? Then we’d love you to share them in an Instagram takeover. Please get in touch with editorial@europeana.eu. You can also check out our Women’s History Month collaborations on Instagram.
