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| The Collections of The Women's Museum |
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| Since its foundation in 1982 the museum has collected objects, documents, photos, slides, and biographies to document the lives and heritage of women. This records - for better and for worse - the changes in women's lives. The collections cover all sorts of things. From gardening tools to sanitary towels, from books of conduct to trade licences, from snapshots of everyday life to formal portraits of moments of celebration, from oral stories of beatings and abortions to paintings by women artists. The museum records the lives lived with and around each object donated - who made it, who owned it, who used it, when and for what purpose? The donated objects can have been made out of necessity. They might have been made for trade - for money. Some have been sold and bought, exchanged or given away. They have been used and kept - and sometimes kept, although no longer useful. Some have simply been made and kept as a gesture of love. Many objects speak for themselves. Nevertheless, a given object increases in value for the collection in proportion to the specific, personal information supplied. |