The gender perspective in community museums. A reflection from feminist archaeology

Abstract

During last decades community museums have been, one of the most important tools that communities have to defend their heritage -both tangible and intangible- and a territory and sustainable tourism. Therefore, it is also important that they become tools to achieve more egalitarian societies. In most of the countries where community museums have been developed, women are in charge of maintaining many of their traditional crafts, and also of transmitting their ancestral knowledge to the new generations. In the same way, their role as managers of the museums, has also increased over the years. For this reason, we believe that it is very important that gender perspective is also included in the exhibitions, both permanent and temporary, in these museums. Our experience in research on the gender perspective applied to archaeological museums, also allows us to transfer these feminist reflections to the field of community museums.