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Istanbul Gender Museum Digital Capacity Building and Sustainability Project

November 2023 - August 2024
ISTANBUL, ONLINE

Istanbul Gender Museum is a virtual museum operating in line with the principles of inclusiveness, participation and intersectionality. Feminist museum pedagogy modules and cultural event concepts associated with the content of physical and virtual exhibitions complement the museum’s work. With each project, it opens up alternative areas to discuss gender roles in different contexts, such as women and LGBTI+ history, politics, education, working life, culture, art and climate crisis.

In addition to its inclusive cultural concept, the museum provides online and online opportunities to open up space and offer visibility to groups and subjects who are discriminated against, invisible and ignored based on gender, in response to the attacks on women and LGBTI+ rights, also defined globally as gender backlash.

With the digital capacity building and sustainability project, the museum aims to improve the site’s infrastructure, carry out a holistic corporate identity work, develop its communication strategy, carry out social media visibility studies, ensure digital security, and ensure sustainability by creating voluntary management and structuring studies.

Istanbul Gender Museum

The founders of the Istanbul Gender Museum gained experience thanks to the Istanbul Women’s Museum, which they founded in 2011 and operated between 2012 and 2021 with the goal of rewriting women’s history with an inclusive concept. The same volunteer team has expanded the scope of their work from a gender perspective since October 2021 and went on to establish the Istanbul Gender Museum with an inclusive, participatory and intersectional mindset. The carrier institution of the Istanbul Gender Museum is the Gender Research Association, which was established on 14.02.2022. Projects in the museum are carried out by eighteen volunteers of different ages (23-73) with different life experiences and areas of expertise, with the understanding of feminist pedagogy through learning processes together with experienced and inexperienced volunteers.

Connections:

https://www.instagram.com/istgendermuseum/ 
https://www.facebook.com/istgendermuseum 
https://twitter.com/istgendermuseum 

This page is published on 7 December 2023.