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Frauenmuseum/Museo della Donne Merano (Women's Museum) |
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 First room showcases women’s fashion and accessories from the Biedermeier period (1815) to the year 2000.
Meran/Merano
I-39012
Ph/Fax: +39 473 23 12 16
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Website: www.museia.it
The museum’s permanent displays are exhibited in a series of 5 rooms, including the original kitchen in the long narrow 13th century house built by Mainard II, Count of Tyrol. Subtitled “Women through the Ages” (Die Frau im Wandel der Zeit/La donna nel corso del tempo”, the museum presents women’s history through the last 200 years. It aims to demonstrate the social change of the perception and role of women, to encourage personal self-consciousness of women and to recognise established female role models.
The museum also has a research library, temporary exhibition gallery and gift shop as well as a storage area for its 20,000 artefacts with a strong costume and accessories bias. The museum is centrally located in the medieval and 19C spa Tyrolean town of Meran/Merano, near the mountainous Austrian border. Founded by Evelyn Ortner, a second hand clothes dealer who built up the core of the collection over 30 years, the museum first opened in 1993. This Italian women’s museum established a partnership with the Musée de la Femme in Senegal, in 2000.
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Museo della Donna e del Bambino (Museum of the woman and the child) |
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 Carpet loom, spinning wheels and examples of cotton, linen and lace household items.
Ciliverghe
Brescia
I-25080
Ph: +39 30 212 0975
Housed in an historic building in Lombardia, a region in Northern Italy, this museum first opened to the public in June 1995 and was founded by Francá Meo (died 1999). Its displays mainly concentrate on costume and textiles such as an exhibition on Household Linen and The Trousseau.
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Museo delle Donne del Mediterraneo (Museum of Mediterranean Women) |
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Gea Palumbo: University of Naples, Italy
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Francesca Medioli: University of Reading, UK
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Still in the process of being established in Naples by a group of scholars of different backgrounds including a representative of the Centre for Italian Women’s Studies at the UK’s University of Reading. Their Foundation is called Museo Donne del Mediterraneo – Calmana. In mythology, Calmana was Cain’s sister and the real reason why he killed Abel. The project intends to involve all countries of the Mediterranean basin of different religions, traditions and cultures.
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