Have you ever visited a museum or historic site and asked, "Where are the stories about girls?"

We certainly have.

Girl Museum has spent the past 10 years producing exhibitions about girls stories and advocating for greater representation of girlhood history and culture around the world. Now, we're ready to launch our most ambitious project ever - Sites of Girlhood.

Sites of Girlhood is a large scale global project to put girls on the map. Girls around the world have been participants and, at times, victims of some of the greatest moments in history. Telling their stories is more important than ever, shedding new light on our history can give us a unique and more personal view of our communities.

This collaborative project is an opportunity to both celebrate girls in history as well as establish sites of memory in their honor. Through this project, we promote greater recognition and inclusion of girls in our historic sites and monuments. We also give girls a voice, empowering anyone to submit a site related to girls and girlhood for inclusion in our map, ensuring that as many girls as possible are represented in our project.

What will Sites of Girlhood look like?

Here's our pilot project - Sites of Violence - which debuted at the first Asian and European Womens Museum conference in Istanbul, Turkey:

This first phase proved we could provide information and highlight various sites related to girlhood using Google Maps. Now, we're ready to expand the pilot into a global map with over 200 entries on girls' history. The project will also have:

- Educational guides aligned to US and UK standards, including a special PDF "Road Map" of the USA and "Train Map" of Europe if we reach our $1,800 goal;

- A special podcast series called "Great Girls";

- Branded products like a travel journal and mug available through our store; and

- Additional resources like how to advocate for historic designations or get markers placed at the sites related to girls.

It's all designed to inspire YOU and YOUR COMMUNITY to get involved in giving girls the representation they deserve. Why?

Because representation matters.

By seeing themselves in history and culture, especially at actual historic sites and museums, girls realize they have the potential to impact their communities and - at times - the world. Inspiring them to be their best selves, to reach their full potential, and to bring others along with them is key to solving so many of the crises that girls face, like gender inequality, violence, and lack of education.

Your support will empower us to complete the first phase of the project, including the initial 200 entries in our map, ensure we have the tools to support it, produce the podcast and high-quality graphics to promote the project, and give our educators honorariums for their hard work creating in-depth guides and road trip maps to help girls explore both in the classroom and in their communities.

Are you ready to support girls?

Make your gift to Sites of Girlhood and be part of a global community dedicated to giving girls the representation they deserve.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Money - Every dollar directly supports project costs, with 55% for project development (web design, software, and research travel costs); 22% for video, podcast, and graphic production; 19% for educational materials and road trip maps; and 4% to market the project on social media.

The Goods - All backers receive a special social media shoutout, acknowledgement in our 2019 Annual Report, and exclusive monthly updates about the project. As an added bonus, all backers will also receive EARLY ACCESS to Sites of Girlhood during our beta testing of the final map in mid-2020. By keeping our rewards simple, we ensure that 100% of your gift supports this project and its mission.

Stretch Goals - If we reach our goal, we'll keep going! All gifts support this project and the infrastructure (web hosting, software) that keeps it and Girl Museum available online, 24/7, for free. We've also got big ideas about creating guidebooks for regions of the world, doing special events on Sites where we live, and other projects that will help bring Sites of Girlhood into classrooms and homes around the world. Every dollar helps us expand this program into the empowering, worldwide movement we hope for.