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If you don't have a building, what exactly do you do?

Even though the NWHM is still in the process of getting a permanent physical site, we've done quite a bit.

• Our first success: NWHM raised $85,000 and generated public support to move this monument of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony from the U.S. Capitol Crypt to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
  
• NWHM created a traveling exhibit, Rights for Women, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York. The exhibit was curated by Edith P. Mayo, Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and displayed at the World Financial Center.
  
• "Clandestine Women; the Untold Stories of Women in Espionage" opened in March 2002. This exhibition at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial honors all women intelligence officers who have served this country.
  
• “Partners in Winning the War; American Women In World War II” opened in May 2004. The exhibition is a photographic tribute of posters, photographs, articles and documents that demonstrate the contributions and sacrifices of women in the effort to win the war.
  
• On July 29th, 2005, the U.S. Senate passed S.501, the National Women's History Museum Act of 2005, by unanimous consent.  Senator Susan Collins introduced the bill with 20 cosponsors, including all of the female Senators.  The Senate previously passed a similar bill, S.1741, unanimously in 2003. Both of these bills identified the Annex of the Old Post Office Building as a permanent home for the museum.  Both times the bill was referred to the House of Representatives where it never came up for a vote.
• On a regular basis, NWHM adds CyberExhibits to its CyberMuseum.  As of April 2009, there are 15 exhibits on various aspects of women’s history and four in planning and research stages.
• On March 25, 2009, Representative Carolyn Maloney introduced HR 6548 that identifies a different site at 12th Street and Independence Avenue as the museum’s home.
  

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Until we have a permanent site, we will continue to open temporary exhibitions in other venues and create virtual exhibitions and programming that will be accessible from our website.

Is the National Women's History Museum a Smithsonian museum?

We are privately funded and just happen to be in the same town as most of the Smithsonian museums. Once a physical site is established, we will apply to the Smithsonian for an affiliation. This will allow us to borrow objects from the Smithsonian's collections for use in exhibitions.

 

 

 

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