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Hittisau Women's Museum (german: Frauenmuseum Hittisau) is a museum in
Hittisau Hittisau is a municipality in the Bregenz (district), district of Bregenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. Hittisau has a surface area of 46.65 km². It lies in the Bregenz Forest, Bregenzerwald in the west of the country. Hittisau is a ...
,
Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
, devoted to women. It was founded in 2000Concerning a Women's Museum in a rural region
Elisabeth Stöckler, founder. and is the only museum of its kind in the country. The museum displays the cultural achievements of women – particularly from the local
Bregenzerwald The Bregenz Forest (german: Bregenzerwald, ) is one of the main regions in the States of Austria, state of Vorarlberg (Austria). It overlaps, but is not coterminous with, the Bregenz Forest Mountains, which belong to a mountain range, range of the ...
region – through exhibitions, cultural events, teaching activities for children, presentations and workshops. It is part of the
International Association of Women's Museums The International Association of Women's Museums (IAWM) is an organisation with its foundation office in Bonn (Germany) and its administrative office in Merano (Italy). The network was founded in 2008 in Merano and transformed into an association i ...
(IAWM). The museum won the 2017 Austrian Museum Award.


Architecture

The museum occupies the upper floor of the ''Feuerwehrhaus und Kulturhaus'' ("Fire Brigade House and Culture House"), which was built from 1998 to 2000 by the local authorities. The local fire brigade occupies the large basement, there is a seminar room on the ground floor, and a local brass band is also based here. The upper section is made of wood (local
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), and the building has a large glass frontage. The building received several architectural prizes, including the national architecture award " Österreichischer Bauherrenpreis" (2000), the "Vorarlberger Hypo-Bauherrenpreis" (2001) in the category ''Municipal buildings'', the "Vorarlberger Holzbaupreis" (2001) as well as the first prize in the category ''Public cultural and recreational facilities'' in the national competition "Human-friendly constructing" (2002). File:Frauenmuseum Hittisau 1.JPG, Glass front of the building File:Frauenmuseum Hittisau 2.JPG File:Frauenmuseum Hittisau 3.JPG


See also

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Bonn Women's Museum The Bonn Women's Museum (german: link=no, Frauenmuseum Bonn) is a women's museum in Bonn, Germany. It was founded in 1981 by Marianne Pitzen (the current director) and an interdisciplinary group of working women, and claims to be the first muse ...


External links


Home page

Official website of the International Association of Women's Museums


Notes

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