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Thursday, December 16, 2021 • The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint
The Women’s
Museum of California
Gets a New Home
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Voice & Viewpoint Staff
Photos: Rochelle Porter, unless otherwise noted Naruwan Taiko Drummers provided entertainment for the day and there were chil dren’s activities on hand, along with free food and drink. The spirit was gay with smiles spread amongst the expectant crowd. Residents living in southeast San Diego (zip codes: 92102, 92113, 92114, and 92139) who attended the event on Saturday received a free oneyear WMC membership.
Local dignitaries, commu nity residents, and com munity leaders, including Councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe (D4) and County Supervisor Nora Vargas (D1), gath ered at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation to warmly welcome The Women’s Mus eum of California’s new education center to Southeastern San Diego. The event took place last Saturday, December 11. The Women’s Museum of California ((WMC) has been in existence since 1983. The museum’s most recent home was at Liberty Station, before moving to the Jacobs Center in December.
“We literally got our keys a few weeks ago,” said WMC Executive Director, Felicia Shaw. “During the pandemic, we started thinking about how we can be more geo graphically inclusive, more racially inclusive. We landed here because Southeast San Diego is such a great commu nity. It’s close to everything, it’s really vibrant, [and] there are a lot of creatives here. We
Attendees captured a glimpse of the center’s WMC collec tion, past exhibits, and a pre view of design plans for the future Women’s Museum.
thought this would be a great place for us,” Shaw said. In addition to interactive workshops for students and community groups, the new space will feature a paid internship program in col laboration with Detour, a local girls empowerment program. The program will offer direct work experience in museum management for high school-aged girls of color. A mentorship pro gram will connect Detour interns to key Museum staff. The program will be funded, in part, by the Conrad Prebys Foundation.
power of grassroots activism”, and positive social change, according to the museum’s literature. The new WMC space will officially open in January, and its first exhibit will be in March, to coincide with Women’s History Month. WMC’s popular Women’s Hall of Fame exhibit will also open in March. Stay tuned. The community is invited! For more infor mation, visit womensmuse umca.org.
WMC ’s mis sion is to show case the history of the women’s movement, “the
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