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KØN - Gender Museum Denmark

KØN - Gender Museum Denmark
KØN - Gender Museum Denmark
Established	1982 (1982)
Location	Aarhus, Denmark
Website	konmuseum.dk/

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. KØN was originally founded in 1982 as a women's history museum, and is housed in the former Aarhus City Hall, built in 1857. 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.

As of 2012, the museum operated on a budget of DKK 10 million from state, municipal and private funding. There is a café and bakery at KØN.

Activities

In addition to its permanent and temporary exhibitions, KØN provides educational outreach programs. 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.

References

1. KØN - Gender Museum Denmark: About KØN (in Danish)
2. "Danmarks kvindemuseum i pengeknibe" [Denmark's Women's Museum in Money Pinch]. TV2 Nyhederne (in Danish). TV2. 24 February 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
3. KØN - Gender Museum Denmark: Museum's History (in Danish)
4. Bryd, Tina (13 November 2012). "Kvinders liv er penge værd" [Women's Live are Worth Money]. Jyllands-Posten (in Danish). Retrieved 12 June 2013.
5. KØN - Gender Museum Denmark: Teaching (in Danish)
6. Hans Petersen (25 September 2014). "Kvindemuseet to teach schoolchildren about sex". Aarhus Stifstidende (in Danish). Retrieved 3 October 2014.

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• Official Website (English version)

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