Скачать или смотреть Leitrim Women Through Time: The Leitrim Women's Pop up Museum 2025

"Leitrim Women Through Time" is a collaborative community heritage project which focuses on the lives of ordinary Leitrim woman in the recent and distant past. The project, run jointly by the North Leitrim Women’s Centre and Scéal Heritage Consultancy since 2022, highlights the neglect and absence of the stories of everyday rural women from our historical records. Leitrim has no county museum and very few public heritage spaces, and rural women’s history is not currently represented in any focused way in the region.

In 2023, the project created Leitrim's first Pop-up Women’s Museum, which mobilised and promoted the histories and experiences of rural women from the county for a broad and inclusive public audience. This temporary museum of women’s history included the display of a travelling museum exhibition accompanied by an exposition of material culture from rural women’s history - with examples from women’s work inside and outside the home, women’s craft, and women’s personal lives. The Museum, which has travelled the county since 2023, encourages people to share stories and memories of ordinary rural women for preservation in the project archive, and demonstrates the value in recording these often-overlooked voices and experiences.

Visitors are encouraged to bring along their own photographs, documents, and objects linked to local women’s history to be recorded by the project, which are scanned and photographed for addition to the project archive. The Museum also offers people the opportunity to temporarily display their own pieces of family history. This initiative offers a unique and welcoming atmosphere to learn about rural women’s history, encouraging discussion, engagement, and memory-sharing amongst those who visit the Museum.