BORN FROM NECESSITY
Women represent 51% of the U.S. population.
Yet less than 10% of national monuments honor women.
In history textbooks, only 13% of historical figures mentioned are female.
This erasure isn't accidental -
it's the result of decades of political resistance to women's stories being told in full.
For nearly three decades, the National Women's History Museum has existed primarily online, still waiting for physical walls after 29 years of advocacy. Even with Congress finally authorizing the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in 2020, construction remains years away as bureaucratic processes continue. Meanwhile, proposals for women's museums across the country face ongoing political challenges—too controversial, too divisive, too difficult to fund.
OUR APPROACH
IS RADICALLY SIMPLE
Instead of one centralized building requiring millions in funding and political consensus, we're creating thousands of exhibitions that exist everywhere - in community centers, storefronts, libraries, schools, and front yards.
IT'S A MOVEMENT
ENSURING WOMEN'S HISTORY
IS ACCESSIBLE, AUTHENTIC,
AND IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE
Each mini-exhibition becomes a node in a global network, honoring a different woman — whether her legacy was struggle, resistance, quiet brilliance, or groundbreaking achievement. No censoring difficult truths. No waiting for permission. No diluting history to make it less "polarizing."
TOGETHER, THESE EXHIBITS
CREATE SOMETHING
NO TRADITIONAL MUSEUM
CAN - HISTORY THAT LIVES
WHERE PEOPEL LIVE
The Women's Freedom Museum empowers individuals to become curators in their own communities. Participants build their tributes from wood, reclaimed materials, plexiglass - whatever's available.
