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ITALY
Frauenmuseum/Museo della Donna “Evelyn Ortner” (Women’s
Museum: Evelyn Ortner)
Lauben 68/Portici 68
Meran/Merano
I-39012
Ph/Fax: +39 473 23 12 16
Email: schoenweger.astrid@dnet.it
Website: www.museia.org |
First
room showcases women’s fashion and accessories
from the Biedermeier period (1815) to the year 2000.
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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.
ITALY
Museo della Donna
Via G.M. Mazzucchelli 2
Ciliverghe
Brescia
I-25080
Ph: +39 30 212 0975
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Carpet
loom, spinning wheels and examples of cotton, linen
and lace household items. |
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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.
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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