Bonn Women's Museum, Women's museum in Bonn, Germany.
The Bonn Women's Museum was founded on 2 May 1981 by director Marianne Pitzen and an interdisciplinary group of women in Bonn's Altstadt, and was the first women's museum in the world. It is run by the association Frauenmuseum – Kunst, Kultur, Geschichte e.V. and has shown over 700 exhibitions with accompanying programmes. Its own holdings include works by Käthe Kollwitz, Katharina Sieverding, Valie Export, Maria Lassnig and Yoko Ono.
The museum was founded in 1981 and was at that time the first of its kind in the world, dedicated entirely to art made by women. It has remained in Bonn ever since and has grown its program steadily over the decades.
The museum puts works by women artists at the center, giving space to voices that were largely absent from mainstream art institutions for a long time. Visitors can move through rooms where painting, photography, and sculpture are shown side by side, with no single medium treated as more important than another.
The museum is in Bonn's Altstadt, the old town, and is run by the association Frauenmuseum – Kunst, Kultur, Geschichte e.V. Its own gallery, studios, museum shop and café are part of the building, and the academy offers events and advice aimed at women artists. A memorial in the courtyard commemorates the victims of the bombing war in Bonn, with finds from the 2010/11 excavations in the Rheinviertel.
In the museum courtyard is a memorial to the victims of the Bonn bombing raids, with objects recovered during the 2010/11 excavations in the Rheinviertel. Indoors, a permanent display documents the destroyed Gertrudiskapelle, and an ecumenically consecrated house chapel of the same name stands in the building.
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