MoAD celebrates women’s achievements in Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month and the museum is celebrating women’s achievements in a number of ways.
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‘Votes for Women’ suffragette stockings
Recently the museum added to its collection of suffragette items a very personal piece of clothing; a pair of black stockings embroidered with the suffragette slogan ‘Votes for Women’.
Women’s leadership takes a front seat at the museum
For two days in the first week of December this year, over ninety delegates listened, debated and argued as the Women, Leadership and Democracy in Australia conference unfolded at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
Suffragette hunger strike medal
In recent months the museum has acquired a rare and important new suffragette item: a hunger strike medal belonging to British woman Charlotte Blacklock.
The Pank-A-Squith board game
The museum has recently acquired an exciting new object which will help us tell the story of how women in Britain acquired the vote.
