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The Launch

How This Began

What if the most comprehensive

women’s history museum wasn’t

housed in an institution...

What if the most comprehensive

women’s history museum wasn’t

housed in an institution...

What if the most comprehensive women’s history museum wasn’t

housed in an institution...

...but on front lawns, sidewalks,

and street corners all

around the world.

...but on front lawns, sidewalks,

and street corners all

around the world.

...but on front lawns, sidewalks, and street corners all around the world.

The Women's Freedom Museum is

a distributed public museum launching

in Manitou Springs, Colorado.

The Women's Freedom Museum is a distributed public museum launching in Manitou Springs, Colorado.

Starting with 20 women whose stories shaped history

& 20 artists who made them impossible to ignore.

Starting with 20 women whose stories shaped history & 20 artists who made them impossible to ignore.

Opening March 2027

Making it real

Thank you to Kelly Cummings Snyder who took an unfinished deck to the mayor and single-handedly forced this museum into existence, Hilary Spittle who has been there for every question, every obstacle and every grant application, Audrey Gray who opened the door to the art community, Gillian Rossi who found the perfect spot for every woman, Hazel Avery who made sure the website felt like the museum it's describing, Peter Sommers who made the exhibit cases museum worthy, Judy Carnick and Jan Weiland who gathered people around tables and shared the vision, Karen Hazlehurst who is planning on letting the whole world know about it and my family who has been on this journey with me for decades.

And to the many hands that touched this along the way

- thank you all.

Thank you to Kelly Cummings Snyder who took an unfinished deck to the mayor and single handedly forced this museum into existence, Hilary Spittle who has been there for every question, every obstacle and every grant application, Audrey Gray who opened the door to the art community, Gillian Rossi who found the perfect spot for every woman, Hazel Avery who made sure the website felt like the museum it's describing, Peter Sommers who made the exhibit cases museum worthy, Judy Carnick and Jan Weiland who gathered people around tables and shared the vision, Karen Hazlehurst who is planning on letting the whole world know about it and my family who has been on this journey with me for decades.

And to the many hands that touched

this along the way - thank you all.

Presented by

Grants and Foundations

You took a chance on a new idea.

Thank you for believing in us.

Manitou Springs Community Foundation

In collaboration with community partners Skip and Joanie Mooney, Ken and Sandy Jaray and Ann Nichols

Manitou Arts, Culture and Heritage (MACH)

Manitou Springs Women's Club

Sponsors

Before there was a single exhibition on a single street corner, you said yes. You didn't fund a building, you funded a new model for how history gets told. Thank you.

Her Story Sponsors

Homes of

Manitou Springs

Torchbearer Sponsors

Smokebrush foundation for hearts

Main Street Supporters

Bell Boheme

Donors

Every gift, large or small, helps put women's history on the map.

We couldn't be more grateful.

Every gift, large or small, helps put women's history on the map. We couldn't be more grateful.

The 1893 Society

(Colorado becomes the first state where voters approve women's suffrage.)

Chris and Katherine Cummings

The 1911 Circle

(More than a million people march

on the first International Women's Day.)

Buddie Morrison

The 1975 Circle

(Nine in ten Icelandic women walk off the job for a day, and the country stops.)

Alice Barnett

Lisa Verlo

The 2027 Circle

(The Women's Freedom Museum

opens in Manitou Springs.)

Bryn Rose

Ripley Carlsen

Leif Lebedz

Join the Movement.

This museum exists because people showed up.

Artists, donors, neighbors, believers. Sponsor it. Support it.

Spread it. Or just be the first to know when it opens.

However you show up, you're part of it.

This museum exists because people showed up. Artists, donors, neighbors, believers. Sponsor it. Support it. Spread it. Or just be the first to know when it opens. However you show up, you're part of it.