Project Section: Museums
Museums
Museums are the repositories of our nation’s history and heritage. Curators play a critical role in shaping our national memory and cultural values. Our Museums project will focus on calling attention to how women are portrayed and represented in museum exhibits. Areas we’ll focus on include:
- Historical exhibits: Women’s contribution to history has been neglected for too long. It’s imperative that our museums present a fair, full depiction of women’s achievements.
- Art exhibits: How many women artists are represented in galleries? What proportion of female subjects are still nudes? (As the Guerilla Girls asked 20 years ago, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum?”)
- The National Women’s History Museum: It’s past time for a National Women’s History Museum to be built on the Mall in Washington, D.C. We support our friends and colleagues in advocating for this important museum to finally become a bricks-and-mortar reality.
Our Museums project is just now getting underway. If you’d like to be involved, or if you have ideas or suggestions to share, please email us at museums@equalvisibilityeverywhere.org. We’ll need volunteer coordinators, researchers, letter writers, interns, and helpers of every description (see our How You Can Help page for more).
Watch this space for updates as the project takes shape.