EAST END WOMEN'S MUSEUM
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Mission Statement
The East End Women’s Museum increases representation of East London women. It champions women’s contributions, inspires audiences, fosters community, and promotes equality — and is a catalyst for others to do the same. Through research, programmes and partnerships, it tells local stories with global resonance, enabling the diverse voices of East End women to reverberate across time and space.
About This Cause
The East End Women’s Museum is all about the extraordinary and everyday stories of East London women, past and present. Beginning as a positive protest to a ‘Jack the Ripper Museum’ in 2015, the Museum is dedicated to putting women’s lives centre stage: increasing representation and recognition while challenging gender stereotypes and inequalities. As well as more well-known female pioneers – such as the Bow Matchgirls, Sylvia Pankhurst, and the Ford Dagenham strikers – we also spotlight lesser-known tales, including housing activist Mala Sen, first Black British international athlete Ethel Scott, inventor of the ice cream cone Agnes Marshall, witches, pirates, carers, aunties and more. The Museum delivers research, exhibitions, events and online engagement, often in collaboration with creative and community partners. From its programming to its governance, EEWM is rooted in community-centred practice, and seeks to be purposeful, building skills, confidence, connections and wellbeing locally. Previously operating as a pop-up and virtual museum, the Museum is now in the process of setting up in a permanent home in Barking.