KØN - Gender Museum Denmark | |
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Established | 1982 |
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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. [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]
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.
In 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]
KØN - Gender Museum Denmark | |
| |
Established | 1982 |
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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. [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]
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.
In 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]