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GERMANY
Das Verborgene Museum – Dokumentation der Kunst von Frauen
(The Hidden Museum – Documentation of Women’s art)
Schüterstrasse 70
10625 Berlin
Ph: +49 30 31 33 656
Fax: +49 30 86 13 464 |
The
Hidden Museum located in a town house in the suburb
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A
non-profit arts organisation with a gallery, it has an archive of
women artists and organises exhibitions of contemporary and historical
women’s art, particularly specialising in the work of women
artists in Berlin of the 1920s and 1930s. It began in 1986 resulting
from the collaboration of feminist artist and art historian Gisela
Breitling and painter Evelyn Kuwertz on the landmark exhibition
Das Verborgene Museum – Dokumentation der Kunst von Frauen
(The Hidden Museum – Documentation of the art of women), the
first catalogue of women artists in Berlin public collections.
GERMANY
Frauenmuseum (Women’s Museum)
Im Krausfeld 10
53111 Bonn
Ph: +49 228 69 13 44
Fax: +49 228 69 61 64
Email: frauenmuseum@bonn-online.com
Website: www.frauenmuseum.textur.com
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Housed
in a former 1950s warehouse (3000 m³) in an old
quarter in the city’s NW, easily accessible by
car, tram, bus or on foot from the city centre. |
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Based in an old quarter of the former West German capital, this
museum aims to make women’s art and women artists publicly
visible. It is building up two accessible archives of books, catalogues
and documents (eg invitations and newspaper cuttings) on “Women
and Art” and “Women and History”. The Arts archive
comprises over 3000 names of contemporary and historic women artists
both in Germany and overseas. It also has a collection of works
by contemporary and historic women artists and documents on women’s
history.
The
exhibition program specialises in single or group projects by contemporary
women artists, (including an annual theme project), displayed within
the 3-storey building. A women artists’ group occupies 8 studios
on the top floor.
Lectures, conferences, discussions, readings, concerts, theatre
and other performances, movies and videos accompany the shows while
an educational program offers guided tours, drawing classes and
children’s courses. There is a café and shop on the
ground floor.
Founded in 1981 by its present director, artist Marianne Pitzen
and the women’s group Frauen Formen Ihre Stadt (Women shape
their town), its work is now being continued at a sister institution
in Berlin.
GERMANY
Frauenmuseum (Women’s Museum)
Wörthstrabe 5
65185 Wiesbaden
Ph: +49 611 308 17 63
Fax: + 49 611 37 86 60
Email: info@frauenmuseum-wiesbaden.de
Website: www.frauenmuseum-wiesbaden.de
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The
Frauenmuseum is housed in an old 5-storeyed, red brick,
former grain store, not far from the town centre. |
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Based
at this ancient Roman spa town in the Rhine valley, near Frankfurt,
this museum is dedicated to the rediscovery and documentation of
women’s achievements, and acknowledging the powers of women
as creators of culture. The museum particularly focuses on women
in the history of Wiesbaden; an acknowledgment of female artists;
and basic research concerning women as the carriers of culture.
The museum’s public displays consist of generally one inhouse
exhibition with changing exhibitions of women’s artwork. It
has also established an archive of materials relating to women’s
history, collected from existing archives and libraries as well
as an audiotape collection.
Four floors of the building are dedicated to exhibition space with
the top floor used as an office, library and preparation area. Postcards
and exhibition catalogues are available from the small shop in the
reception area on the ground floor. First opened in 1984, the museum
is run by an independent organising body, the Frauenwerkstatt Wiesbaden
– Zentrum für Kommunikation und Bildung e.V. (Women’s
Workshop Wiesbaden Centre for Communication and Education).
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