Jeri wrote: I think this is a job for The Smithsonian, which is paid for by the taxes paid by everyone (about 1/2 of us being female). They think nothing of spending billions on a Space museum. Most other museums under them are focused on a male-dominated society. An exception might be the American Textile Museum in Lowell MA which was rescued recently by The Smithsonian. However, men owned/operated the textile businesses; women worked for the men. Textiles have been a major force in our economic history and they have been neglected terribly in museums - from the Colonial period until we now permit (blame Washington) cheap imports to dominate. Here we sit. Stalled. This got me to wondering why we don't have a women's museum through the Smithsonian, and I thought I had heard something about such a thing. In fact, it seems like we do have one, http://www.nwhm.org/ but it exists in some form other than physical reality. We are all urged to write Congress to give it a building. So, as it exists now, I guess it is not a solution to where one might send artifacts requiring storage. Hmmm. Devon
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