What's significant is the number and scope of the projects in the works. All five museums are serious projects with multimillion-dollar budgets. I love the energy of all these different women working to make these different projects happen. It's been 80 years since women in the United States got the vote, and more than 30 years since the women's liberation movement sent record numbers of women into the workplace and altered forever the demographics of this country. Burns documentary Ms. MacGregor says those events, plus a PBS documentary by Ken Burns about Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, popularized women's history and made people start thinking about it.
Museums are the most effective means of doing that.
We think there should be a woman's museum in every city in this country. Nonprofits always struggle for money, and these museums are no different. The museums are geographically dispersed and have slightly different focuses, details they hope will encourage donations for them all. The museums' organizers all know each other and support each other's projects. There even have been informal talks about the museums cooperating and pooling their resources to support traveling exhibits.