This museum highlights the part women of color and women of African descent had in the struggle for equal rights. It examines the role and impact in the resistance and highlights their stories in the permanent and rotating exhibitions. The permanent exhibition reviews their part in the resistance since the early days of slavery, through the civil war and the emancipation, the Jim Crow era, great migration, civil rights movement, and during major events in the long struggle for equal rights. Videos and sound stations, photographs, songs, folk tales, and more give the visitor the entire story. The exhibit Gender Trap: Black Women, Rape and Resistance focuses on the response and revolutionary acts by Black women in America. The last exhibit review a historical timeline of institutional rape, violence, and sexual harassment of Black women by police officers and their forerunners. It is the only museum in the world dedicated to this cause. Read more...

Located on the fourth floor of the New-York Historical Society, the center is dedicated to telling the stories of women who had shaped the US throughout history and to women’s actions, lives, and legacies. The Center presents pioneer women from different classes, races, and sexuality from the Suffrage Movement to modern days activism. The gallery, designed by the architect Eva Jiricna, features temporary and permanent exhibits, such as a collection of 132 Tiffany lamps, an interactive display of women who contributed to society like Madonna, Patti Smith, Molly Brant, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as the Billie Jean King archives, which includes some of the champion’s personal items. The Center for Women’s History organizes public events, intimate conversations with experts, and the annual Diane and Adam E. Max Conference on Women’s History. Read more...

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first and currently the only museum in the world dedicated to artwork associated with the various elements of the LGBTQ experience. Founded in 1969 by The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation as a commercial art gallery. During the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, the collection grew as the founders, Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman Leslie, salvaged works made by dying artists that were meant to be destroyed by their families. In 1987 the foundation application to be recognized as a nonprofit organization was declined because the word “Gay” was in the title. It took a few years before it was granted the nonprofit status. This visual art museum collects and displays artworks related to LGBTQ people and issues, or created by LGBTQ artists, such as David Hockney, Catherine Opie, and Jean Cocteau. The museum houses a collection of more than 30,000 art objects, including drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints, and photography. In addition to the permanent and rotating exhibits, the museum hosts special events like lectures, performances, and pool parties. Read more...

A museum, a library, and a community center all dedicated to lesbian history and culture. The mission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives is to accumulate and preserve information regarding lesbian lives and to provide access to this information with no sexual, political, or academic requirements. In addition to a wide selection of books, journals, and press materials, the archives include historical artifacts and personal belongings, such as diaries, videos, posters, photographs, and clothes. The archives also host various exhibits and special events. After separating from the Gay Academic Union (GAU), Joan Nestle, Deborah Edel, and other women established an organization that focuses on lesbian culture, and so in 1974, the Lesbian Herstory Archives was founded. Throughout the years, the archives expanded, more women joined the organization and donated their personal materials. This is the world’s largest selection of materials made by and about lesbians and their communities, and currently, the archives include about 11,000 books, 1,300 periodical titles, historical items, and photographs. Read more...

A permanent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum dedicated to feminist art in the past, present, and future. Named after its founder, the center’s mission is to create an education environment, raising awareness of feminism’s cultural contributions, and learning about the meaning of feminist art and its importance. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is the permanent home of ‘The Dinner Party’ by Judy Chicago, and to the biographical gallery highlighting the women represented in the artwork. Visitors can participate in educational programs and explore the current exhibitions, such as Cecilia Vicuña’s ‘Disappeared Quipu’, and ‘Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection’. The center established the Feminist Art Base – the first digital archive of past and present feminist artists from around the world. The center was founded in 2007 by Elizabeth A. Sackler, a public historian, arts activist, and an American-Indian advocate. Sackler wanted to create a home for feminist art, a place of dialog and discussion about equality and justice for feminism as reflected in art. Reserve tickets here Read more...

Also known as “Clear Comfort,” Alice Austen House is a national historic landmark and a museum dedicated to the life and work of Alice Austen, one of the first female photographers in the US. In her lifetime, Austen captured about 8,000 images, most of them are documentary photos of her friends, immigrants and city life, but she also experimented with artistic photography and images of women dressed in male drag (‘drag kings’). Austen lived in Clear Comfort for most of her life, 28 of them with Gertrude Amelia Tate, her lifelong companion. The museum displays a permanent collection of Alice Austen’s photography as well as short term changing exhibitions of other artists, such as Nicholas Muellner and George Shiras. Visitors can participate in special events like “In Alice’s Garden” and “Alice Austen Holiday Party,” or take a stroll in the garden and enjoy the view of New York Harbor. In addition, the museum offers various education programs, for children and for adults, and even a Photography Summer Camp. Read more...