Do you like visiting museums? Visit Museum of Women

If you don't like to spend your time in museum, it's because you've never been to really interesting museum.

What about museum which is about you? Or you mother, your grandmother?

This is the Museum of Women's History, or in other words - Gender Museum.

In this museum you can see, how Ukrainian women lived several centuries ago, what they famous for and how they moved the society forward. It often seems that history knows only men's names, but in fact women did much more than it is widely thought. Women were inventors, scientists, politicians and even warriors.

Only in this museum you will learn facts about women, which would never be written even in historical books: customs, rituals, artworks, paintings and numerous other evidences of life of Ukrainian women during centuries.

This Museum was created by women for women, though men also willingly visit its exhibitions.

The Museum has a large collection, dozens of exhibitions, which were many times shown in different regions of Ukraine and were honored abroad.

At that the Museum does not have permanent premises, its collections are kept in different places, which negatively influences their integrity.

At present the Museum found premises on the first floor with area of 50 m² in the center of Kharkiv city to place its permanent and changing interactive exhibitions. But it needs repairing that costs 60 thousand hryvnias.

Ukrainian Women's Fund decided to help the Gender Museum and calls you to join!

Within its campaign «Women Support Women» the UWF suggests to provide help to the Museum by transferring money to specially opened account. Money will be collected till December 25, 2012.

 Bank details for contribution transfer:

 In its turn, Ukrainian Women's Fund undertakes to increase the amount of collected funds by 25% and transfer them to the Museum's account.

Every week information about collecting and using the funds will be updated on the Museums website www.gendermuseum.com.

Names of all donors will be placed on the Museum's Wall of Gratitude and on website of Ukrainian Women's Fund.