‘Woman wrecker’: A suffragette’s story
Seen the film Suffragette? Meet Charlotte Blacklock, a suffragette who was willing to put her body, her mind, her very existence on the line for women’s rights to participate in public and political life.
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Crisis 1914: a manufactured crisis
With the fabrication finalised, and all the objects chosen and ready to go, it was time for the last task: installation.
Crisis 1914: designing a crisis
In the second of a series of ‘behind the scenes’ blog posts, Campbell Rhodes shares some of the experiences and challenges of putting this exhibition together.
What does it take to get the vote!!
If you were a woman in England at the beginning of the 20th century it took march after march, demonstration after demonstration, hunger strike after hunger strike.
How to change laws and influence people
In 1895, South Australia became the first place in the world to give women both the right to vote and to stand as candidates for election. We are proud to now have on display in our Designing Democracy gallery a section of the petition that helped make history.
Party Games
In a series of blog posts, the museum’s curatorial team will take visitors on a journey through many of its collection treasures that have not been seen before.
Celebrating women
On 8 March the Museum of Australian Democracy celebrates International Women’s Day. This year marks some significant anniversaries for women in the political sphere and there is no better place in Canberra to mark these events than at the museum, located in Old Parliament House.
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.
‘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.
