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What Women In Culture has achieved — and what the initiative continues to inspire.

What We Achieved

Portraits & Stories

Published compelling portraits and narratives of women leaders, curators, artists, and professionals across galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

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Global Events

Dozens of events organized, funded, or endorsed worldwide, celebrating women’s contributions to culture and bringing together diverse communities from the arts and heritage sectors.

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International Collaboration

In partnership with UNESCO and The New York Times to amplify messages on gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide, with the support of the CHANEL Foundation.

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Policy Impact

Influenced discussions and policy-making around gender equality in cultural institutions and demonstrated the power of art to drive social change.

Lasting Legacy

Built networks of women leaders and continued advocacy for inclusive, equitable cultural institutions globally.

Ongoing Commitment

The values and lessons from Women In Culture continue to inform all our initiatives, ensuring diversity and inclusion remain central to our mission.

Digital campaigns

Three editions, three hashtags

The initiative was first played out online. For three editions of #MuseumWeek, a dedicated hashtag brought together cultural institutions worldwide around women: #WomenMW in 2017 and 2018, then #WomenInCulture in 2019, when the campaign became a full program with its on-site events.

The figures below come from the official reports of the relevant editions, provided to our partners. They measure public conversation, not identified individuals.

#WomenMW
2017 · 19–25 JUIN

The fourth edition of #MuseumWeek is dedicated to all the women of the world. The hashtag is available in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, a pre-campaign “Hack our logo” invites institutions to reinterpret the graphic identity in tribute to women, and the site publishes a first series of Women in Culture portraits in four languages. The campaign emblem is Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as a lute player.

577 815
messages exchanged under the hashtag
33 %
from the global conversation of the edition
4 505
participating institutions in 95 countries
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#WomenMW
2018 · 23–29 AVRIL

Second year of the hashtag, this time with support from the CHANEL Foundation. Monday’s theme was explicit: highlight women from History, Art, Culture, or Science, “not women represented for their beauty, but women artists, women intellectuals, women workers.” Eleven new Women in Culture portraits were published, including Hu Xinyun, Olga Kudinova, Marilia Bonas, and Mrinalini Venkateswaran.

5 001
participating institutions in 120 countries
54 %
of women in the global conversation
34
press coverage recorded
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#WomenInCulture
2019 · MOT-DIÈSE DE L'ÉDITION

In 2019, the hashtag became the name of the program. The campaign expanded beyond social networks to also take place in museums: more than sixty events were organized, funded, or endorsed worldwide, with support from UNESCO, The New York Times as international media partner, and the CHANEL Foundation. Artists joined in — Angélique Kidjo, Yaël Naïm, Marie-Cécile Zinsou, Drue Kataoka, Adelaide Damoah, matali crasset.

UNESCO
official support for the launch of the movement
The New York Times
exclusive international media partner
9
video portraits broadcast (below)
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Appointments

Women In Culture, museum by museum

Exhibitions, concerts, round tables, visits, workshops, open house days: these are the events held under the Women In Culture banner, as listed in our event register. Each title opens its detailed sheet, with speakers, photo gallery, and press coverage when available.

An event is recorded in the register once it has taken place under the program banner, whether we produced, funded, or merely initiated it. The exact role is indicated on each record. Open in the event timeline

Our role

66 events recorded, from 2017 to 2019.

2019

Public talk, Academy of Fine Arts Museum

  • Musée de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

The CULTURA public conference center organized, as part of #MuseumWeek and the #WomenInCulture movement, a public talk at the Academy of Fine Arts Museum. The discussion, led by artists and art critics, was structured in three parts — the woman curator, the woman artist, the woman researcher — to shed light on the cultural life of St. Petersburg at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, current trends, and feminism in contemporary Russian art. 80 attendees, free admission.

Discussion, Lightbox Gallery & Museum

  • The Lightbox Gallery & Museum, Londres, GB
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Visit of the exhibition “History of British Trailblazers” followed by a roundtable bringing together Anna Fox and Karen Knorr, photography professors, chaired by Jean Wainwright, professor of contemporary art and photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham.

Meeting with Elena Chizhova, Anna Akhmatova Museum

  • Musée littéraire et mémorial Anna Akhmatova, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Meeting with writer Elena Chizhova, winner of the 2009 Russian Booker Prize, presenting her latest book, “A City Written from Memory.”

Conference on women, Alhambra Museum

  • Musée de l’Alhambra, Grenade, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Conference dedicated to the women of al-Andalus.

Exhibition, Fabrik45

  • Fabrik45, Bonn, DE
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Art exhibition.

"Playings Exchange," Duolun Museum of Modern Art

  • Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, CN
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Visitors exchange toys and stories related to the museum's current exhibition.

Live video tour, Florence Lazar exhibition, Jeu de Paume

  • Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Live video of the Florence Lazar exhibition, “You think the earth is a dead thing…”

Renaissance Ball, Château du Rivau

  • Château du Rivau, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Rivau hosted three events during MuseumWeek: a contemporary art exhibition featuring twenty women artists, a conference, and a Renaissance ball. The whole was part of the exceptional programming of the Loire Valley.

Live video visit with Uldus Bakhtiozina, Fabergé Museum

  • Musée Fabergé, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Russian photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina took the audience on a live video tour of the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Fabergé Museum. She shares her interpretation of the Mexican feminist icon and her favorite works, emphasizing violence, suffering, and death as central themes of the painter, and explains how her own perspective has evolved over the years.

Screening and discussion, UCCA

  • UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Pékin, CN
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Screening of Jero Yun’s film, followed by a conversation with Zhou Wanjing.

Plastic recycling workshop with Pati Homs, Museu Vida Real

  • Museu de la Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Plastic recycling workshop led by Pati Homs.

Performance by Koko-Jean Davis, Museu Vida Real

  • Museu de la Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Koko-Jean Davis concert, Saturday evening.

Exhibition “Plastic” with Núria Vila, Museu Vida Real

  • Museu de la Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Exhibition “Plastic,” designed and curated by eco-designer Núria Vila.

Discussion with Marian Romero, Museu Vida Real

  • Museu de la Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Discussion with Marian Romero.

Female quintet concert, National Museum of the Republic

  • Museu Nacional da República Honestino Guimarães, Brasília, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

As part of the 'Semana de Museus,' the National Museum of the Republic hosted the Women's Quintet of the National Theater Symphony Orchestra for a free concert in the main exhibition hall. The all-female string quintet performed a program dedicated to the women present in the audience.

Live presentation, MAC Sorocaba

  • Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Sorocaba, Sorocaba, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Presentation of MuseumWeek and the #WomenInCulture movement during the roundtable “Real Space × Virtual Space.” Fifty graduate students — architecture, visual arts, and other disciplines — attended.

First Open Days dedicated to women, Museum of Civilizations

  • Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, CI
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

On the occasion of the 6th edition of MuseumWeek, the Musée des Civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire launched, in collaboration with INSAAC, its first Open Days dedicated to women, on the theme “Women in Culture: Past, Present, and Future.” More than 200 women participated, in the presence of the Ambassador of Spain and representatives from the Ministries of Culture, Women, and Handicrafts. The museum announced its intention to include prominent female figures of the country in its collections.

Photo contest, National Maritime Museum

  • Musée national de la Marine, Toulon, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Photo contest organized as part of the exhibition dedicated to photographer Raymond Depardon.

Guqin concert, Sichuan Museum

  • Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, CN
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Guqin concert (seven-string Chinese zither) attended by 30 women journalists, 50 women from all backgrounds, and 120 spectators.

Musical evening, Bettina Samson exhibition, Zébra3

  • Zébra3, Bordeaux, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Musical evening during the Bettina Samson exhibition, which presented ten years of creation: glass sculptures and ceramics, photographic prints, paintings on engraved glass, and installations.

Live conversation, Museu do Samba

  • Museu do Samba, Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

"Força Feminina do Samba": a lively conversation between generations from the Mangueira territory, one of the birthplaces of samba in Rio. The singer Geisa Ketti — cultural advisor to the State and daughter of Zé Ketti, a major singer and composer of the genre — exchanged with students from the Uruguai municipal school.

Tribute to Yvette Guilbert, Phono Museum

  • Phono Museum, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Spotlight on contemporary female singers performing the repertoire of Yvette Guilbert, a figure of the Belle Époque.

Engraving workshop with Ira Vasilyeva, Matiss Club

  • Matiss Club, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

The Matiss Club gallery joined MuseumWeek with a relief printmaking workshop dedicated to women in art, organized during the exhibition of Ira Vasilyeva's oil paintings. The artist taught linocut creation: lithographic press, printing form making, and color work.

Screening of the documentary by Line Hadsbjerg, Museu Vida Real

  • Museu de la Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Screening of the documentary “Out of Plastic” by Line Hadsbjerg.

Behind the scenes at MAST

  • Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (MAST), Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

"Behind the Scenes of Our Archives": workshop simulating the archiving of personal scientific documents donated to the museum, intended for a general audience. Thirty participants were expected; the museum welcomed fifty-five.

Guided tours, Museu da Casa Brasileira

  • Museu da Casa Brasileira, São Paulo, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Free guided tour with museologist Wilton Guerra, discovering the secrets of the building housing the museum — the bathroom, the steward’s office, the technical reserve — and the personalities it hosted, including Prince Philip.

Roundtable, Museu de História da Medicina do Paraná

  • Museu de História da Medicina do Paraná, Curitiba, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Roundtable dedicated to the pioneers of medical history in the State of Paraná. Marta Savi, historian and professor at the Federal University of Paraná, and Simone Peruzzo, president of the Regional Council of Nurses of Paraná, discussed both historical facts and the daily challenges faced today by women in the sector.

Tribute to Elvira Coda Notari by Domenico Barra

  • Naples, IT
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Tribute by artist Domenico Barra to Elvira Coda Notari (Salerno, 1875 — 1946), the first and most prolific Italian female filmmaker: more than sixty feature films and a hundred shorts and documentaries. Recognized as the first female filmmaker, she drew most of her inspiration from Naples.

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Venice Biennale

  • Fondation V-A-C, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venise, IT
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale “May You Live in Interesting Times,” at the V-A-C Foundation, Palazzo delle Zattere, represented by Fabienne Leclerc from the In Situ gallery.

Discussion led by Rachel Scharly, Michele Mariaud Gallery

  • Michele Mariaud Gallery, New York, US
  • Women In Culture
  • Co-organized

Exhibition and conversation evening organized by MuseumWeek, Le Petit Journal New York, Homeis, and the Michele Mariaud gallery, which brought together more than fifty people. Rachel Scharly, editor of Le Petit Journal New York and #WomenInCulture ambassador, interviewed Michele Mariaud and Laurence de Valmy there.

Live conversation with Drue Kataoka in the artist's studio

  • Atelier de Drue Kataoka, Silicon Valley, US
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Live conversation celebrating the #WomenInCulture movement with artist and technologist Drue Kataoka, broadcast on Instagram.

Performance by Adelaide Damoah, Museum of Immigration History

  • Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Co-organized

Performance by Adelaide Damoah at the National Museum of Immigration History, May 13, 2019, for the launch of the edition and the #WomenInCulture program. The British-Ghanaian artist uses her own body as a printing tool, a practice that directly responds to Yves Klein’s anthropometries by reversing the terms: the body is no longer the brush of another, it is the artist’s own.

Marlène Schiappa at the Museum of Immigration History

  • Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Co-organized

Launch of MuseumWeek and the #WomenInCulture movement in the presence of Minister Marlène Schiappa. The visit to the exhibition “Paris-Londres” was followed by an intervention from the minister and the MuseumWeek teams.

Visit to the London Transport Museum on women in transportation

  • London Transport Museum, Londres, GB
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Tour led by Ellie Miles, documentary curator at the London Transport Museum, dedicated to the journeys of women in London transport, on the first day of the 2019 edition focused on #WomenInCulture.

Drinking about Museums, Brasília

  • Bar du centre-ville, Brasília, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Informal conversation over a drink, entirely dedicated to MuseumWeek: its origins, objectives, and what it brings to participating institutions. The second "Drinking about Museums" in the city — renamed "Bebemus" in Portuguese — and the tenth nationwide in five years. About twenty museum professionals, students, and teachers gathered.

Week program, Museu de Arte do Rio

  • Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

The MAR deployed an extensive program, both online and offline, throughout MuseumWeek: publications across all the museum’s networks, guided tours, debates, and workshops around the exhibition “Women in the MAR Collection.” The entire program was linked to the “Semana de Museus,” a national Brazilian event held annually around May 18.

Happening with Mauren Brodbeck, Auer Ory Photo Foundation

  • Auer Ory Photo Foundation, Hermance, CH
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Happening by Swiss artist Mauren Brodbeck: a collage of visual and digital stimulations exploring the gap between what we perceive as real and our fantasies.

Exhibition and talks “Women In Culture,” Zhejiang Library

  • Zhejiang Library, Hangzhou, CN
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Five female artists exhibit their works and discuss the relationship between women and culture, and the role of women in cultural creation, from their own artistic practice. Broadcast live.

Scavenger hunt and Ms Orth exhibition, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift

  • Stadtmuseum Simeonstift, Trèves, DE
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

A themed week: Monday dedicated to Ms. Orth as exhibition curator, Tuesday to behind the scenes of exhibition making, Wednesday to a treasure hunt around the paintings, Thursday to colorful textile patterns, Saturday to an InstaWalk in the fashion exhibition, Sunday to museum friends.

Street art performance by Leo Valls

  • Bordeaux, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Street art performance by artist and skateboarder Leo Valls, as part of the Cultural Season in Bordeaux. Leo Valls creates skateboarding films highlighting the architecture of Bordeaux’s streets.

Activities and screenings, Forum des images

  • Forum des images, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

A week of screenings, exhibitions and meetings: documentary “The Urgency to Act” dedicated to choreographer Maguy Marin, opening of the photographic exhibition by Davide Cerullo “Faces of Scampia — The Righteous of Gomorra,” creation of a platform game, and meetings.

Photowalk at the Petit Palais

  • Petit Palais, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Photowalk: amateur photographers walk the same route together, each photographing what catches their attention — many unique perspectives on a shared experience.

Live artistic performance by Laurence de Valmy, Affordable Art Fair

  • Affordable Art Fair (HKCEC), Hong Kong, HK
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Live artistic performance by Laurence de Valmy at the 7th edition of the Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong, which brought together more than 115 local and international galleries.

Scarf painting, MITHILAsmita Museum

  • Musée MITHILAsmita, Madhubani, IN
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

About sixty female artists each painted a scarf, on a unique theme and story, in the traditional motifs of Madhubani painting.

Women & Museums Conference, National College of Arts

  • National College of Arts / Lahore Museum, Lahore, PK
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

One-day conference dedicated to women and museums.

Photowalk at the Russian Museum

  • Musée russe, Saint-Pétersbourg, RU
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

From May 13 to 18, the Russian Museum invited its visitors to find as many works by female artists as possible in the permanent collections of the Mikhailovsky Palace and the Benois Wing, photograph them, and share them on social media. The top finder — 22 works found — won the catalog of a recent exhibition.

Live event, Alicja Kwade exhibition, Metropolitan rooftop

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

The Met’s annual rooftop garden commission is a highlight of the New York summer. “ParaPivot,” Alicja Kwade’s first solo exhibition at a New York institution, was on view there from April to October. A live event bringing together women artists was organized in partnership with Le Petit Journal.

Works by women artists shared on social media, MoMA

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Visitors to MoMA were invited to photograph and share on social media works by women artists from the collection.

Lecture by Marian Alonso, Ermita Mudéjar de San Juan

  • Ermita Mudéjar de San Juan, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Lecture by Marian Alonso: what cultural institutions can do through heritage education on gender.

Live visit with Maeva Acolatse, Mons

  • Mons, BE
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

The Togolese artist Maëva Acolatsé led a “go parcours” in the city, broadcast live.

Women artists exhibition, Fondation Zinsou Ouidah

  • Fondation Zinsou, Ouidah, BJ
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Exhibition of works by women artists: Pauline Guerrier, Aïcha Snoussi, Lyndi Sales, Esther Mahlangu, Nnenna Okore.

Exhibition “Wax Stories,” Fondation Zinsou Cotonou

  • Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, BJ
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

“Wax Stories — Stories of Wax Prints”: an exhibition designed by a team of women on a subject invented by women for women — wax fabric and the messages it carries.

Artist talk with Ekaterina Muromtseva, Garage Museum

  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscou, RU
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Ekaterina Muromtseva, artist and resident of the Garage Studios, reflects on her creative and outreach practice: for her, today’s artist is not only a producer of works but a mediator between art and the public — and she explains what it means to “translate” the language of contemporary art for elderly people. She invited older female artists to present the works created with her at the Garage Studios.

Screening "Alpona Theke Alpona," NSHM Knowledge Campus

  • NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata, IN
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

Screening of an award-winning documentary dedicated to alpona, a traditional Bengali ritual art practiced mainly by women, followed by a discussion. Organized by Museum Culture Marketing, a private initiative dedicated to museum audiences and marketing, with special attention to India.

Concert by Angélique Kidjo at the Arab World Institute

  • Institut du monde arabe, Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Concert by singer Angélique Kidjo at the Institut du monde arabe, shared as part of the #WomenInCulture movement.

Photo contest, MusVerre museum

  • Musée MusVerre, Sars-Poteries, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Photo contest: from April 22 to May 10, participants sent the museum their best photo of the site via Facebook. Ten photos were selected and published in an album; page followers voted from May 13 to 17, and the three most popular photos were awarded.

Live performances, Center for Culture and Development

  • Center for Culture and Development, Islamabad, PK
  • Women In Culture
  • Funded

A series of activities spread over several weeks: awareness seminars, walks, live performances, and social media campaigns to highlight the role of women in art, society, and Pakistani museums.

Museu da Vida

  • Museu da Vida, Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Museu do Futebol

  • Museu do Futebol, São Paulo, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Museu da Imigração

  • Museu da Imigração, São Paulo, BR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Children's show by Judit Farrés, Museu Vida Real

  • Museu de la Vida Rural, Espluga de Francolí, ES
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

The multidisciplinary artist Judit Farrés presents “Pomelo,” a show for young audiences.

Edit-a-thon Wikimedia, Montsoreau Castle

  • Château de Montsoreau — Musée d’art contemporain, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Edit-a-thon organized with Wikimedia France to enrich Wikipedia with pages dedicated to women artists, with one theme per day of the week.

Live video of Zolaykha Sherzad, Agnès b. gallery.

  • Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris, FR
  • Women In Culture
  • Endorsed

Live video from the opening of Zolaykha Sherzad's photography and embroidery exhibition.

2018

#WomenMW 2018 — women in art and culture

  • Online
  • Women In Culture
  • Organized

For the second year, #MuseumWeek dedicates its hashtag #WomenMW to women in art and culture, with the support of the CHANEL Foundation. The theme for Monday, April 23 invites institutions to highlight women from History, Art, Culture, or Science — “not women represented for their beauty, but women artists, women intellectuals, women workers.” On the #MuseumWeek website, the Women in Culture series publishes eleven new portraits of professionals in the sector — five in English, five in Chinese, one in French, fewer than planned due to Instagram API restrictions — including Hu Xinyun (China Academy of Art), Olga Kudinova, Marilia Bonas (Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo), and Mrinalini Venkateswaran (City Palace Museum of Jaipur). The CHANEL Foundation sets four measurable goals for the campaign, including a floor of 180,000 messages exchanged under #womenMW — a volume that Instagram API restrictions prevented from being measured. Two other goals are verified: 54% of people participating in the global conversation are women, and thirty-four press coverages are recorded.

2017

#WomenMW — the 2017 edition dedicated to women

  • Online
  • Women In Culture
  • Organized

The fourth edition of #MuseumWeek is dedicated — not devoted, as the official report points out — to all the women of the world: in addition to the seven daily hashtags, institutions are invited to publish throughout the week on the theme “Women and Culture” with the hashtag #WomenMW, presented in Chinese (#女性博物馆周#), Korean (#여성MW), and Japanese (#女性MW). A pre-campaign “Hack our logo” invites community managers of institutions to creatively alter the #MuseumWeek graphic identity in tribute to women. The result exceeds expectations: 577,815 messages exchanged around #WomenMW, representing 33% of the overall conversation of the edition — 20,932 posts, shared 548,297 times and commented on 8,586 times. Meanwhile, the #MuseumWeek website publishes a series of portraits of women in the cultural sector under the name Women in Culture: 18 in English, 8 in French, 7 in Chinese (for 17 people interviewed), and 2 in Russian. The emblem chosen for the campaign is Artemisia Gentileschi’s self-portrait as a lute player. The edition gathers 4,505 cultural institutions in 95 countries; more than 1.7 million messages are exchanged during June.

#WomenMW Tribute Challenge — repurpose the logo for women in culture

  • Online
  • Women In Culture
  • Organized

Creative challenge launched eleven days before the 2017 edition: to repurpose the MuseumWeek logo to pay tribute to a woman artist and share it with the hashtag #WomenMW. Dozens of institutions responded — Le Signe National Center for Graphic Design, Museu de la Vida Rural, Kvindemuseet, Accorsi-Ometto Museum, Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona — and the campaign led to a dedicated Twitter Moment followed by a replay on June 26. A visual narrative of the contributions was published on the first day of the edition.

#WomenInCulture Stories

Nine video portraits

Artists, photographers, singers, writers, activists: nine women whose work has marked culture, told in one minute. These stories were produced by MuseumWeek for the #WomenInCulture campaign.

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01 Visual Artist · Japan
02 Artist and technologist · United States
03 Sculptor · United States, 19th century
04 Photographer and artist · Russia
05 Collective of activist artists · United States
06 Singer and activist · South Africa
07 Singer · Benin
08 Human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize · Guatemala
09 Writer · Nigeria

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