First room showcases women’s fashion and accessories from the Biedermeier period (1815) to the year 2000.
Meran/Merano
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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.