Request An Exhibit
The Women's Museum has produced a variety of exhibit panels suitable for display at your school, library, or organization. These exhibits are highly informative and inspiring, and whether it be Women's History Month, or your organization wants to explore deeper into women's history, we have an exhibit for you!
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Our exhibits range from exploring how refugee crises affect women globally to feminist waves in the 20th century, to the modern beauty industry and beyond. The information presented through these exhibits are invaluable, and will provide an educational experience for your organization!
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This price varies depending on how large the exhibit is. We are happy to work within ourbedget to create a custom exhibit experience for you. Extra fees for artifacts or to request a WMC Speaker for an event.
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You must acknowledge the Women's Museum of California in all promotional materials related to the exhibit.
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For more information or to request the exhibit package please contact info@womensmuseum.org.
Women’s Suffrage Movement
The journey towards the American woman’s enfranchisement, spanning the late 19th century into the early 20th century, was persistently defined by a spirit of female courage, perseverance, and loud mobilization.
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​Discover the history of the suffrage movement and get to know the women who fought for our right to vote during the 1911 California campaign, the national campaign for the 19th amendment, and beyond.
SHOULDERS TO STAND ON - REMEMBERING THE CHICANA ACTIVIST NARRATIVE
From roots of self-discovery, strong branches blossomed with Chicana literature, art, and activism. San Diego’s Latina women drew on the strength of ancestors and their own experiences to gain recognition for their contributions, accomplishments, and leadership potential. They struggled, organized, innovated, educated and inspired others in the community to set goals and achieve them. Meet the California women who turned aspiration into a movement. And explore the Chicana Movement of today’s generation in art, literature and activism.
Tears of War: The Many Faces of Refugee Women
Since the 1970s, San Diego has become home to almost 200,000 refugees from at least 30 war-torn nations where homes, livelihood, and family life were destroyed. Women refugees observed death and/or torture, fled their homes, experienced rape and terror, sought shelter, pleaded for asylum. In their new homes they adjusted to unfamiliar surroundings and society, living with their trauma, and surviving against all odds.
GIFTS OF OUR SISTER
What have we learned from the lives of Kumeyaay women, original inhabitants of San Diego County? From birthing rituals to puberty rites, the Kumeyaay mark their life’s milestones in unique ways. Explore their culture, learn about their clothes, food, tattoos, art, herbal remedies, songs, and stories. Understand what we have gained and what we have lost.
BEAUTIFUL, BRILLIANT, AND BRAVE : A CELEBRATION OF BLACK WOMEN
This exhibit celebrates the diverse beauty, brilliance and bravery of Black women throughout the world and highlights many local women that have made amazing contributions within their communities and professions. Our guest curator, Starla Lewis, is a longtime professor of Black History at Mesa Community College views the exhibit focus from a viewpoint well-honed after 25 years of study and teaching the topic within the social scope of American life.
ROCKIN' THE BOAT: WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT OF THE 60'S AND 70'S
The second wave of feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, known as the Women's Liberation Movement, came fast on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement. This wave of activism in pursuit of women's rights encompassed a wide range of issues: sexuality, family, workplace, and reproductive rights as well as social, political, economic, and legal inequalities. Rights that most women take for granted today were hard fought--by women, for women. In this exhibit, we salute and honor those tenacious women who carried the torch for equality, justice, and freedom.
Rockin' the Political Boat: Women of the Second Wave
Political inequality had important personal ramifications for issues of sexuality, birth control and abortion, and for roles in marriage, housework and childcare. Convinced that gender discrimination could not be defeated without political organization, Second-Wave feminists of the 60s and 70s challenged society to accept their participation on a public, political level. In the summer of 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was launched. Members lobbied Congress for pro-equality laws and battled workplace discrimination in the courts. They publicized issues like rape and domestic violence and reached out to other women to both expand the movement and raise awareness of how feminism could help them. Follow the wave in our third installation in our “Rocking the Boat” series.
ART ROCKS THE BOAT
During the resurgence of the larger women's movement in the 1960s and 70s, women artists, writers, choreographers, actors, filmmakers and playwrights sought to create a new dialogue between the viewer and their art through the inclusion of women's perspective. Art was no longer merely an object for aesthetic admiration, but could also incite the viewer to question the social and political. Please join us in our historical exploration of Women's Liberation and how women used their art to push at the boundaries of the possible.
BEHIND THE GLAMOUR: THE WOMEN WHO BUILT THE INDUSTRY 1920 - 1940
The glamour of Hollywood in the early part of the 20th Century became available to the modern women of the 20s and 30s thanks to the business brilliance of a handful of pioneering women. Well-known names of Estée Lauder and Helena Rubenstein are still industry giants today.