15 Free Online Exhibitions on Women's stories, lives, labor, and legacy. Curated for you with attention and dedication

This collection gathers free online museums, digital archives, and educational resources dedicated to women’s history, Indigenous knowledge, feminist culture, and the visibility of women across time. Curated from the Smithsonian, the National Women’s History Museum, and global digital platforms, these resources contribute to the cultural preservation and highlight the lives, art, struggles, and achievements of women who have shaped history but were often left out of mainstream narratives, and offer powerful entry points into understanding women’s contributions across cultures and eras.

We are in times when we can research and find resources ourselves to see the past from different perspectives and construct a different present and future.

Enjoy these expositions:

1. Bringing American Women’s History into Focushttps://www.becomingvisible.si.edu/

2. Exhibition: Hearts of Our People – Native Women Artists https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/native-women-artists

3. Timeline of Woman Suffragehttps://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/timeline-woman-suffrage

4. Creating Female Political Culturehttps://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/creating-female-political-culture

5. Timeline: Women in the History of Nursinghttps://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/timeline-history-nursing

6. Exhibition: New Beginningshttps://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/new-beginnings

7. Exhibition: First but Not Lasthttps://www.womenshistory.org/exhibits/first-not-last

8. Women’s History in the Garden – Timelinehttps://gardens.si.edu/learn/educational-resources/womens-history-in-the-garden/timeline

9. Exhibition: All Work, No Payhttps://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/all-work-no-pay/online

10. Exhibition: Creating Icons – How We Remember Women’s Historyhttps://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/creating-icons

11. Collections Search: Womenhttps://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search?edan_q=women

12. Archive Snapshot: Separating Home and Workhttps://wayback.archive-it.org/3340/20231024143915/https://americanhistory.si.edu/all-work-no-pay/separating-home-and-work

13. Smithsonian Archives Collectionshttps://americanhistory.si.edu/about/centers/archives/collections

14. Women’s History Story Collectionhttps://artsandculture.google.com/story/nAVBFcoqbi5yJg

15. Women in American History – Google Arts & Culturehttps://artsandculture.google.com/story/eAXB-xrhjA9CIA

    
    

I hope these 15 free digital resources open a door into women’s histories for you. Exploring these collections is more than an academic exercise; it is an act of recognition of forgotten stories and an invitation to engage critically with the past and present, beyond what is narrated in the big media streams.

If you want to submit a Woman’s Storyhttps://www.womenshistory.org/submit-womans-story

Blessings, Issrae

About: Author, publisher, and MBA specializing in the theory of knowledge in multicultural contexts. Decolonial mythology researcher, women’s studies and matriarchal studies scholar, naturopath, and herbalist dedicated to holistic healing. Her work bridges research, spirituality, and creative pedagogy, drawing from anthropology, ethnography, mythology, shamanic studies, oracology, divination, and the sacred arts.

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