Museum, defined:

Girl Museum is a new kind of institution.

Traditional museums are primary storehouses of material culture, places to learn about art and objects of the past.  While we are this, it is the intangible- the ideas and memories of girl history, how they brought us to the present, and their future implications that we are collecting.  

Our goals include building an archive dedicated to preserving and learning about girlhood.  As we gather information about girls and girlhood, we hope to be encyclopaedic when possible, to include all manner of material culture. In this way, we are crossing over categories and integrating learning about the subject of girlhood as both the parts and sum.  

This new museum model of practically no overhead is an experiment. Like a new garden, we are seeing what we are able to grow on the web- an archive and a point of reference to look at art and social history in a different way. Girl Museum is also a virtual venue for our global community to celebrate and explore the importance of girlhood of the past, present and future through collaborative and interactive exhibitions and projects.