KØN - Gender Museum Denmark, formerly Kvindemuseet (Women's Museum), is a history museum in Aarhus, Denmark focused on the cultural history of gender and sexuality in Denmark.[1] KØN was originally founded in 1982 as a women's history museum, and is housed in the former Aarhus City Hall, built in 1857.[2] In 2016, the museum's thematic focus was expanded to encompass issues of gender and sexuality in the broadest sense, and as a result of that, the museum's name was changed to KØN (Gender in English) in 2021.[3]
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| Established | 1982 |
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| Location | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Website | konmuseum.dk/ |
As of 2012, the museum operated on a budget of DKK 10 million from state, municipal and private funding.[4] There is a café and bakery at KØN.
Activities
editIn addition to its permanent and temporary exhibitions, KØN provides educational outreach programs.[5] In 2014, the Aarhus municipality approved an annual grant of DKK 500,000 to KØN to teach sex education, gender equality and democracy to schoolchildren.[6]
References
edit- ^ KØN - Gender Museum Denmark: About KØN (in Danish)
- ^ "Danmarks kvindemuseum i pengeknibe" [Denmark's Women's Museum in Money Pinch]. TV2 Nyhederne (in Danish). TV2. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ^ KØN - Gender Museum Denmark: Museum's History (in Danish)
- ^ Bryd, Tina (13 November 2012). "Kvinders liv er penge værd" [Women's Live are Worth Money]. Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). Retrieved 12 June 2013.
- ^ KØN - Gender Museum Denmark: Teaching (in Danish)
- ^ Hans Petersen (25 September 2014). "Kvindemuseet to teach schoolchildren about sex". Aarhus Stifstidende (in Danish). Retrieved 3 October 2014.
Further reading
edit- Ipsen, Merete; Jette Sandahl (Fall 1990). "The Women's Museum in Denmark". Journal of Women's History. 2 (2): 168–170. doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0110. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
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